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Mark L. Smith is an American screenwriter.

Mark L. Smith
Occupation	Screenwriter, film director
Years active	2006–present

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,[1] and the 2009 Joe Dante film The Hole.[2] Together with Alejandro González Iñárritu, he co-wrote The Revenant, based in part on the novel of the same name by Michael Punke. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Will Poulter. 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.[3]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2006	Séance	Yes	Yes	No
2007	Vacancy	No	Yes	No
2008	Vacancy 2: The First Cut	No	Yes	No
2009	The Hole	No	Yes	No
2015	Martyrs	No	Yes	No
	The Revenant	No	Yes	No	Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
2018	Overlord	No	Yes	No
2020	The Midnight Sky	No	Yes	No
TBA	The Marsh King's Daughter	No	Yes	Yes	Post-production
	The Boys in the Boat	No	Yes	No	Filming

Special thanks

• The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
• In the Dark of the Valley (2021) (Documentary)

References

External links

• Mark L. Smith at IMDb

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