Todd Komarnicki

Todd Komarnicki (born 19 October 1965 in Long Beach, CA) is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and producer. Career He authored the play Beautiful Boy, produced in a theater in Los Angeles in 1993, and that same year wrote a detective novel, Free. He self-published two more novels, Famine (1997) and War (2008). His career breakthrough was producing Elf (with Jon Berg), the 2003 Christmas movie starring Will Ferrell and directed by Jon Favreau. In the same year, Komarnicki wrote and directed Resistance, a Dutch/American World War II film starring Bill Paxton and Julia Ormond, based on Anita Shreeve’s novel of the same name. In 2007, he wrote the neo-noir psychological thriller film Perfect Stranger, directed by James Foley, and starring Halle Berry and Bruce Willis. Komarnicki also co-wrote The Professor and the Madman (2019) with John Boorman and Farhad Safinia, starring Mel Gibson and Sean Penn. In television, Komarnicki has written pilots for ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, and TNT, and is currently writing his new show, AMERICAN SHERLOCK, for Netflix.