Mark L. Smith is an American
screenwriter.
Career
He wrote and directed the 2006 film ''Séance'', which won the Festival Prize at the Eureka Springs Digital Film Festival and the Horror Genre Award at ShockFest. Since then he has worked as a screenwriter. Smith's writing credits include the 2007 horror film ''
Vacancy'' and its prequel, ''
Vacancy 2: The First Cut'', and the 2009
Joe Dante film ''
The Hole''. Together with
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alejandro González Iñárritu (; American Spanish: ; credited since 2016 as Alejandro G. Iñárritu; born 15 August 1963) is a Mexican filmmaker and screenwriter. He is primarily known for making modern psychological drama films about the hu ...
, he co-wrote ''
The Revenant'', based in part on the novel of the same name by
Michael Punke
Michael W. Punke (born December 7, 1964) is an American author, attorney, academic, and policy analyst. He is a former Deputy United States Trade Representative and U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2017, ...
. The film stars
Leonardo DiCaprio,
Tom Hardy and
Will Poulter
William Jack Poulter (born 28 January 1993) is a British actor. He first gained recognition for his role as Eustace Scrubb in the fantasy adventure film '' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'' (2010). He received critical ...
. Shooting began in September 2014. The film was released on December 25, 2015.
Smith was hired by Paramount to write the script for the fourth film in the
rebooted ''Star Trek'' series in December 2017.
Filmography
Film
Special thanks
* ''
The Hitman's Bodyguard
''The Hitman's Bodyguard'' is a 2017 American action comedy film directed by Patrick Hughes and starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, and Salma Hayek. The film follows a bodyguard (Reynolds) who must protect a convicted hitman ...
'' (2017)
* ''In the Dark of the Valley'' (2021) (Documentary)
References
External links
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Living people
American film directors
American male screenwriters
Year of birth missing (living people)
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