Akiva Goldsman

Akiva Goldsman worked as a producer, writer and director on the sci-fi drama Fringe for which he garnered his first of three Saturn Awards as well as a Hugo Award nomination. Goldsman executive produced the Syfy miniseries Childhood’s End, and the acclaimed WGN original drama series Underground. He served as executive producer, writer and director on the Emmy and Peabody-nominated sci-fi series Star Trek: Discovery, which debuted its second season on CBS All Access this year. He is currently working on the untitled Picard spinoff, the latest addition to the CBS All Access Star Trek Universe.

Goldsman’s feature writing credits include The Client, Batman Forever, A Time to Kill, Practical Magic, Cinderella Man, I Am Legend, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, I, Robot, The Dark Tower, and A Beautiful Mind, for which he won an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award.

Under his Weed Road Pictures banner, Goldsman has produced Deep Blue Sea, Constantine, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Hancock, Fair Game and Lone Survivor, as well as King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, and The Dark Tower. The company is currently developing an adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse for Paramount Pictures.