Biography
Mazin was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family. He was raised on Staten Island, Staten Island, New York. He moved to Marlboro Township, New Jersey when he was a teen and attended Freehold High School which inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 2010.Celano, Clare MarieCareer
Mazin began his entertainment career as a marketing executive with Walt Disney Pictures in the mid-1990s, where he was responsible for writing and producing campaigns for studio films. He made his screenwriting debut with 1997's sci-fi comedy ''RocketMan'', co-written with then-writing partner Greg Erb. He has since written movies such as ''Senseless,'' ''Scary Movie 3'', ''Scary Movie 4'' and ''Identity Thief''. Mazin has directed two films: 2000's low-budget superhero film ''The Specials (2000 film), The Specials'', which he also produced, and the 2008 superhero spoof ''Superhero Movie'', which he also wrote (he also made a cameo appearance in this movie as a janitor). Since 2006, Mazin has collaborated with director Todd Phillips on several occasions. Mazin co-wrote both ''The Hangover, Hangover'' sequels, parts The Hangover Part II, II and The Hangover Part III, III, and executive produced ''School for Scoundrels (2006 film), School for Scoundrels''. In 2004, Mazin was elected to the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America, West. He did not seek re-election, and his term expired in September 2006. Along with fellow former WGA board member Ted Elliott (screenwriter), Ted Elliott, Mazin ran a website called The Artful Writer, which focused on issues relevant to working screenwriters. It closed in 2011, after seven years. In 2011, Mazin and fellow screenwriter John August began Scriptnotes, a weekly podcast on screenwriting, the craft of screenwriting and Cinema of the United States, the film industry. In July 2017, HBO and Sky plc, Sky Television announced ''Chernobyl (miniseries), Chernobyl'', a five-part miniseries from Mazin about the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl disaster, Chernobyl. The series was filmed in Lithuania and Ukraine. Mazin said that the "lesson of ''Chernobyl'' isn’t that modern nuclear power is dangerous. The lesson is that lying, arrogance, and suppression of criticism are dangerous." In an interview with ''Decider'', Mazin said: "If I came to HBO and said ‘I want to do another season of ''Chernobyl'', except it’s gonna be about another terrible tragedy,’ whether it's Bhopal disaster, Bhopal or Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Fukushima or something like that, I would imagine they at least would give me polite interest." In October of 2019 Disney hired Craig Mazin for writing the screenplay of Pirates of the Caribbean 6 with Ted Elliott (screenwriter), Ted Elliott that now is currently in development. Mazin was named as the current scriptwriter for the Lionsgate film adaption of the ''Borderlands (series), Borderlands'' video game series in February 2020, as well as co-writer and co-executive producer for a television series adaption of the video game ''The Last of Us'' for HBO in March 2020. The ''Last of Us'' adaptation was greenlit by HBO in November 2020. More recently, Mazin signed an overall deal with HBO.Filmography
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Executive producer * ''School for Scoundrels (2006 film), School for Scoundrels'' (2006) Special thanks * ''The Words (film), The Words'' (2012) * ''Free Birds'' (2013) * ''Don't Think Twice'' (2016)Television
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