Laeta Kalogridis

Laeta Elizabeth Kalogridis (born August 30, 1965) is an American screenwriter and television and film producer of Greek descent. She has written scripts for Alexander (2004), Night Watch (2004), Pathfinder (2007) and Shutter Island (2010).[1] She also served as an executive producer for the television series Birds of Prey and Bionic Woman,[2][3] and she co-wrote the screenplay for Terminator Genisys (2015)[4] and Alita: Battle Angel (2019). She is the creator and executive producer of the Netflix series Altered Carbon (2018).

Laeta Kalogridis
Born
Laeta Elizabeth Kalogridis

(1965-08-30) August 30, 1965
Winter Haven, Florida, U.S.
Alma materDavidson College
University of Texas at Austin
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
OccupationScreenwriter, television producer, film producer

She is also the founder of the pro-union website Hollywood United and was involved as a peacemaker in the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.[1]

Early life and education

Laeta Kalogridis was born in Winter Haven, Florida. She is a graduate of Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina where she won a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, and University of Texas at Austin and attended UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She is of Greek descent; her grandparents emigrated from Kalymnos in the early 20th century.[5] She graduated the MFA program for screenwriting at UCLA.[6]

Writing career

Early scripts and projects

Early in her career, Kalogridis wrote a spec script about Joan of Arc titled In Nomine Dei. She sold the script to Warner Bros. in April 1994, but a film was not produced.[7] In March 1995, she was a writer of the early script for X-Men, a blockbuster film released in 2000.[8] In late 1999, she did uncredited work on the script for Scream 3.

In September 2000, she was hired to pen the screenplay for the 2001 film adaptation of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.[9] Kalogridis created, executive produced and wrote multiple episodes of the 2002 series Birds of Prey. In September 2003, she was involved in the rewrite of the Wonder Woman live action film adaptation for Warner Bros.[10] Kalogridis wrote a draft of the 2004 film Catwoman but ultimately did not receive a screenwriting credit.[11] She was next credited as the screenwriter of the English language version of the 2004 film Night Watch, and also wrote the script for the 2004 film Alexander.[1]

In January 2005, she worked on a remake of The Lone Ranger for Columbia Pictures.[12] In November 2005, she helped write Borgia, an ImageMovers film about the Borgia family in 15th century Rome.[13] In February 2006 she began writing The Dive, director James Cameron's planned film about the freediver Francisco "Pipin" Ferraras and his wife Audrey Mestre.[14]

Strike and recent projects

In January 2007, she began writing Alita: Battle Angel, director James Cameron's planned film based on the classic cyberpunk manga Battle Angel Alita.[15] In October 2007, she did a rewrite of the vampire film Darksiders for New Line Cinema.[16] She was screenwriter for the 2007 film Pathfinder.[1] She was also the executive producer for the 2007 TV series Bionic Woman, also writing the pilot. For Bionic Woman, she recalls being fired in part because she was told that she "didn't know how to write women," and was replaced by a male writer.[6]

Kalogridis became involved as a peacemaker in the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, working with writers and producers to reach a solution. The New York Times reported her involvement, "Ms. Kalogridis and her friends... had become a pipeline to the guild members holding out for sizable gains, whose support would be needed if any deal was to be reached."[17] She is also the founder of the pro-union website Hollywood United.[1]

She was an executive producer of the 2009 blockbuster Avatar by director James Cameron.[1] She was executive producer and screenwriter of the 2010 film Shutter Island.[1] She produced the 2013 film White House Down.[18] In 2013, she and Patrick Lussier were both named co-writers for the fifth film in the Terminator series, Terminator Genisys, for Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.[4] She was also an executive producer of the 2015 film.[19]

In 2018, she was producer for the film The House with a Clock in Its Walls.[20] She was also creator, screenwriter, and executive producer of Altered Carbon, a Netflix scifi series[21] which premiered in February 2018.[22] She continues to work on the film adaptation of the manga Alita: Battle Angel as a co-writer along with James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez, which was released on February 14, 2019.[23] Since 2016 she has also been writing and executive producing the untitled Sword Art Online live-action series for Netflix.[21] She is writing the pilot, noting in an interview that she was working to not "whitewash" the adaptation.[24]

On May 23, 2019, BuzzFeed News's Kate Aurthur broke the news that Kalogridis is writing a script for an adaptation of the BioWare and LucasArts video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. BuzzFeed identifies the project as a "potential trilogy."[25]

Filmography
Year Film Credit
2000 Dracula 2000 Special thanks
2002 Birds of Prey Executive producer, writer for episodes "Slick" and "Premiere"
2004 Night Watch Screenwriter (English language version)
Catwoman Screenwriter (uncredited rewrite)
Alexander Screenwriter
2007 Pathfinder Screenwriter
Bionic Woman Executive producer, writer for the episode "Pilot"
2009 Avatar Executive producer
2010 Shutter Island Screenwriter, executive producer
2013 White House Down Producer
2015 Terminator Genisys Co-screenwriter, executive producer
2018 Altered Carbon Creator, screenwriter, executive producer
The House with a Clock in Its Walls Executive producer
2019 Alita: Battle Angel Co-screenwriter
Untitled Sword Art Online live-action series Screenwriter, executive producer[21]
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References
  1. "Laeta Kalogridis Hollywood's Hottest Screenwriter Talks "Shutter Island" and "Avatar"". Greek Reporter. March 30, 2010. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  2. "'Altered Carbon' Creator Laeta Kalogridis: How I Made It in Hollywood". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  3. "Laeta Kalogridis". SXSW 2019 Schedule. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  4. "Laeta Kalogridis And Patrick Lussier Set To Script New 'Terminator' - Deadline.com". Deadline Hollywood.
  5. "Laeta Kalogridis - Hollywood's Hottest Screenwriter, and Producer". March 28, 2010.
  6. Eggertsen, Chris (February 3, 2018). "'Altered Carbon' Creator Laeta Kalogridis: How I Made It in Hollywood". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  7. Fleming, Michael (1994-04-06). "Warners rekindles Arc tale". Variety. Reed Business Information. Archived from the original on 2013-02-05. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
  8. Galloway, Stephen; Donna Parker (1995-03-30). "4 top ICM agents walk, undertake own Endeavor". The Hollywood Reporter. Nielsen Company.
  9. Dunkley, Cathy (2000-09-28). "Voight joins 'Tomb Raider' family". The Hollywood Reporter. Nielsen Company.
  10. Dunkley, Cathy (2003-09-28). "Scribe is 'Wonder' woman". Variety. Reed Business Information. Archived from the original on 2013-02-05. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
  11. https://dailyscript.com/scripts/catwoman.pdf
  12. Goldsmith, Jill (2005-01-09). "Finding gold in Classic fare". Variety. Reed Business Information. Archived from the original on 2012-09-18. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
  13. Fleming, Michael (2005-11-02). "Betting big on 'Borgia'". Variety. Reed Business Information. Archived from the original on 2013-02-05. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
  14. "Cameron taps 'Dive' writer". Variety. Reed Business Information. 2006-02-26. Archived from the original on 2012-10-22. Retrieved 2008-07-28.
  15. Thompson, Anne (2007-01-09). "Cameron sails 'Avatar'". The Hollywood Reporter. Nielsen Company.
  16. Garrett, Diane (2007-10-07). "Kalogridis to revamp 'Darksiders'". Variety. Reed Business Information. Archived from the original on 2013-02-05. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
  17. Cieply, Michael (2008-02-08). "In True Hollywood Fashion, Rescuers Script a Possible Ending for a Strike". The New York Times. The New York Times Company.
  18. "White House down /Columbia Pictures presents a Mythology Entertainment/Centropolis Entertainment production ; produced by Bradley J. Fischer, James Vanderbilt, Harald Kloser, Larry Franco and Laeta Kalogridis ; written by James Vanderbilt ; directed by Roland Emmerich. – National Library". www.nlb.gov.sg. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  19. Bishop, Bryan (2015-07-02). "How the director of Terminator Genisys recreated James Cameron's 1984". The Verge. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  20. "Official Webpage".
  21. Goldberg, Lesley (August 2, 2016). "Japanese Novel and Anime Franchise 'Sword Art Online' Being Adapted as Live-Action TV Series". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  22. "'Altered Carbon': First teaser trailer for stunning Netflix sci-fi series". EW.com. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  23. Nobil, Taryn (December 8, 2017). "James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez's 'Alita: Battle Angel' Gets Creepy First Trailer". Variety. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  24. Trumbore, Dave (February 13, 2018). "'Altered Carbon' Creator Laeta Kalogridis on Avoiding "Whitewashing" in 'Sword Art Online'". Collider. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  25. Aurthur, Kate (May 23, 2019). "A New "Star Wars" Movie Based On "Knights Of The Old Republic" Is In The Works". BuzzFeed. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
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