Justin Marks

Justin Marks is an American screenwriter, producer and television showrunner. He was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 95th Academy Awards as one of the writers of Top Gun: Maverick. Justin is the creator and showrunner of the FX upcoming epic series “Shogun” based on the novel by James Clavell. He is also currently writing "Prince of Port Au Prince"," a Netflix CG-animated feature film inspired by the childhood of Haitian singer and The Fugees co-founder Wyclef Jean. Previously, Justin wrote Disney's live-action remake of The Jungle Book and created and showran the Starz espionage thriller Counterpart. Education Marks graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 2002 and he studied architecture in college. During his senior year, he befriended a literary manager, who helped him launch his career in screenwriting. Career One of the first scripts he penned was Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li for 20th Century Fox. A year prior, he had written a script for a potential He-Man film, initially entitled Grayskull: The Masters of The Universe. The film remains in development hell.