Mark A. Altman(I)

MARK A. ALTMAN is showrunner/executive producer of the popular CW sci-fi series, Pandora which is distributed by Sony Pictures Television worldwide and the upcoming adaptation of the bestselling book series, Deathlands which begins filming next year. Previously, he served as a writer/producer on such series as The Librarians (TNT), Agent X (TNT), Castle (ABC), Necessary Roughness (USA) among others.

He is also the director of the NBC-Universal comedy special, Aries Spears: Comedy Blueprint and Practice: The Secret Files Of Earthquake for Comedy Dynamics and has directed numerous episodes of episodic television. In addition to executive producing the History Channel 50 Years Of Star Trek and The Center Seat for the Nacelle Company, he wrote and produced an original documentary about the films and pop culture of 1982, 1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever, which will have its world premiere at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival in Barcelona, Spain this fall.

In addition, Altman has sold numerous television pilots and produced the feature film adaptation of the hit video game, DOA: Dead Or Alive, which was released by Dimension Films. His first motion picture was the award winning, cult classic, Free Enterprise, starring William Shatner and Eric McCormack, which he wrote and produced and for which he won the WGA Award for Best New Writer at the AFI Los Angeles Film Festival prior to its 1999 theatrical release. He is also a producer of the House of the Dead film series, based on the videogame from Sega, released by Lionsgate, and produced director Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) and writer James Gunn's (Guardians Of The Galaxy, The Suicide Squad) superhero satire, The Specials.

His bestselling two-volume book, The 50 Year Mission: The Complete Uncensored History of Star Trek, was released by St. Martin's Press in 2016 in hardcover to unanimous critical acclaim including raves in The Wall Street Journal, Booklist and Publishers Weekly. His oral history of the James Bond films, Nobody Does It Better, was released in 2020 in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio by Macmillan as well as Secrets Of The Force in 2021 chronicling the entire Star Wars saga and, most recently, They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog about the John Wick films and gun-fu which debuted in Summer 2022.

In 2019, Altman launched the Electric Surge video podcast network with producer Dean Devlin (Independence Day, Stargate). These popular podcasts include The 4:30 Movie and Inglorious Treksperts (which Trek Movie called "The Best Star Trek Podcast of 2021,") which he co-hosts, along with Best Movies Never Made, as well as several others including the Leverage After Show and is also available on the streaming OTT platform, Electric Now, as well as through traditional audio podcast providers.

Altman is also a former journalist as well. In the past, Altman has contributed to such newspapers and magazines as The Boston Globe, Written By, L'Cinefage, The Guardian, The Boston Edge, Cult TV, Computer Player, Geek, Brandeis Magazine and many others, including Cinefantastique for which he launched their independent film division, CFQ Films, which produced numerous successful genre features for DVD and VOD release.

Altman has spoken at numerous industry events and conventions, including ShowBiz Expo as well as the Variety/Final Draft Screenwriters Panel at the Cannes Film Festival. He has also been a frequent guest and panelist at Comic-Con held annually in San Diego, CA and a two-time juror for the Comic-Con Film Festival. In addition to being a graduate of the Writers Guild of America Showrunners Training Program, he is a member of the Television Academy.