Bryan Burk (born December 30, 1968) is an American film and television producer. He is mostly known for producing movies in collaboration with J. J. Abrams, including the ''Star Trek'' reboot series, the ''Mission: Impossible'' films '' Ghost Protocol'' and '' Rogue Nation'', '' Star Wars: The Force Awakens'', and the TV series ''

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''. His only work outside of producing was co-writing the ''Fringe'' episode " There's More Than One of Everything".

Career

Born to a

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family,Variety Magazine: "Abrams keeps it all in the fan family - J.J. and his collaborators conquer Hollywood" By Cynthia Littleton
October 16, 2009 , ''"We’re all self-deprecating short Jews, with the exception of Bob Orci”'' Burk is a graduate of USC's School of Cinema-Television in 1991. He began his career working with producers Brad Weston at

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and John Davis at FOX. In 1995, he joined Gerber Pictures, where he developed TNT's

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-winning ''

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''. Together with J. J. Abrams, he founded the production company

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in 2001. As Executive Vice President of the company, Burk serves as executive producer for all of their television and film productions. In 2009, Burk co-wrote the story of the

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finale of ''Fringe'', " There's More Than One of Everything", with

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, while

Jeff Pinkner Jeff Pinkner (born November 16, 1964) is an American television and movie writer and producer. Life and career Born to a Jewish family,J. H. Wyman Joel Howard "J. H." Wyman (born January 5, 1967) is a film and TV producer, screenwriter, director and musician. He is best known for his work on the Fox science fiction shows ''Fringe'' and '' Almost Human'', and wrote and produced the films ...

wrote the

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. He frequently collaborates with a tightly knit group of film professionals which include J. J. Abrams,

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, Adam Horowitz,

Alex Kurtzman Alexander Hilary Kurtzman (born September 7, 1973) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his work on the ''Star Trek'' franchise since 2009, co-writing the scripts to ''Transformers'' (2007), '' Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' and ...

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, Andre Nemec,

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'' (2001–2006)

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* 1968 births American film producers Jewish American screenwriters American television producers American television writers American male television writers Living people USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American Jews {{US-film-producer-stub