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Craig Mazin (born April 8, 1971) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for creating the five-part HBO miniseries Chernobyl, based on the nuclear disaster of the same name in 1986. His work earned him two Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special and Outstanding Limited Series. Mazin is also known for his work on the parody film genre, namely Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, and Superhero Movie. He is also the co-creator and co writer of the upcoming HBO series The Last Of Us, based on the video game of the same name, alongside the game's creator Neil Druckmann.

Craig Mazin
Born	(1971-04-08) April 8, 1971 (age 51) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Education	Princeton University
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1997–present
Notable work	Chernobyl

Biography

Mazin was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family.[1][2] He was raised on 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.[3]

Mazin graduated magna cum laude with a degree in psychology from Princeton University in 1992. His freshman-year roommate at Princeton was Ted Cruz, now the junior U.S. senator from Texas and a former Republican candidate for the 2016 presidential election year.[4][5] He openly despises Cruz on a personal level and frequently disparages him on Twitter, calling the U.S. senator "a huge asshole".[6]

Mazin is married with two children.[7] He supported Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run-up for the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[8][9]

Career

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.[3]

He made his screenwriting debut with 1997's sci-fi comedy RocketMan, co-written with then-writing partner Greg Erb.[10] 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, 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 Hangover sequels, parts II and III, and executive produced 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, 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 the craft of screenwriting and the film industry.[11]

In July 2017, HBO and Sky Television announced Chernobyl, a five-part miniseries from Mazin about the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. The series was filmed in Lithuania and Ukraine.[12] 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."[13]

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 or Fukushima or something like that, I would imagine they at least would give me polite interest."[14]

In October of 2019 Disney hired Craig Mazin for writing the screenplay of Pirates of the Caribbean 6 with Ted Elliott that now is currently in development.

Mazin was named as the current scriptwriter for the Lionsgate film adaption of the Borderlands video game series in February 2020,[15] 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.[16] The Last of Us adaptation was greenlit by HBO in November 2020.[17] More recently, Mazin signed an overall deal with HBO.[18]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
1997	RocketMan	No	Yes	No
1998	Senseless	No	Yes	No
2000	The Specials	Yes	No	Co-Producer
2003	Scary Movie 3	No	Yes	No
2006	Scary Movie 4	No	Yes	Yes
2008	Superhero Movie	Yes	Yes	Yes
2011	The Hangover Part II	No	Yes	No
2013	Identity Thief	No	Yes	No
	The Hangover Part III	No	Yes	No
2016	The Huntsman: Winter's War	No	Yes	No
TBA	Borderlands	No	Yes	No
	Pirates of the Caribbean 6	No	Yes	No

Executive producer

• School for Scoundrels (2006)

Special thanks

• The Words (2012)
• Free Birds (2013)
• Don't Think Twice (2016)

Television

Year	Title	Writer	Creator	Executive producer	Notes
2019	Chernobyl	Yes	Yes	Yes	TV miniseries; Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or a Dramatic Special
2020–present	Mythic Quest	Yes	No	No	Episode: "Backstory!" Also consulting producer
2023[19]	The Last of Us[20]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Co-created and co-wrote the show with Neil Druckmann

Acting credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Scary Movie 4	Billy	Voice role
2008	Superhero Movie	Janitor	Cameo
2020	Mythic Quest	Lou

References

External links

• Craig Mazin on Twitter
• Craig Mazin at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Craig Mazin

Craig Mazin (* 8. April 1971 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York) ist ein US-amerikanischer Drehbuchautor und Filmregisseur.

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- [en] Craig Mazin

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[ru] Мейзин, Крейг

Крейг Мейзин (англ. Craig Mazin [meɪzɪn]; родился 8 апреля 1971) — американский кинорежиссёр, сценарист и кинопродюсер. Известен прежде всего как сценарист и продюсер мини-сериала HBO «Чернобыль». До «Чернобыля» Мейзин занимался преимущественно написанием сценариев к кинокомедиям и кинопародиям, таким как «Поймай толстуху, если сможешь», фильмам из серий «Мальчишник» и «Очень страшное кино».

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