Mark L. Smith

Mark L. Smith is an American screenwriter. He wrote the films The Revenant (2015), Overlord (2018), The Midnight Sky (2020), and The Boys in the Boat (2023).

Career

Smith 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

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

Writer

Year	Title	Notes
2006	Séance	Also director
2007	Vacancy
2008	Vacancy 2: The First Cut
2009	The Hole
2015	Martyrs
2015	The Revenant	with Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2018	Overlord	with Billy Ray
2020	The Midnight Sky
2023	The Marsh King's Daughter	with Elle Smith; also producer
2023	The Boys in the Boat
2024	Twisters

References

^ Mark Smith Talks New Untitled Platinum Dunes / Room 101 Project
^ Mark Smith Talks Untitled Paramount/Platinum Dunes Feature
^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (December 21, 2017). "Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek Firms The Revenant Writer Mark L. Smith As Screenwriter". Deadline. Retrieved December 21, 2017.

External links

Mark L. Smith at
IMDb

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[1] Mark Smith Talks New Untitled Platinum Dunes / Room 101 Project

[2] Mark Smith Talks Untitled Paramount/Platinum Dunes Feature

[3] Fleming, Mike Jr. (December 21, 2017). "Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek Firms The Revenant Writer Mark L. Smith As Screenwriter". Deadline. Retrieved December 21, 2017.

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