Zack Stentz

Zackary Lowell Stentz is an American writer and producer of film and television journalist novelist and teacher best known for his work on Marvel properties with former writing partner Ashley Edward Miller Stentz graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in journalism As a journalist he wrote and edited for publications such as The Economist Esquire Sports Illustrated and Entertainment Weekly In addition he was an environmental activist for Earth First in the early 1990s After graduating from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in Journalism he worked for Metro Silicon Valley writing about television books and popular culture as well as the Sonoma County Independent now the North Bay Bohemian In 1997 publisher Dan Pulcrano tapped Stentz to oversee Metros rebranding and launch of its San Francisco monthly The Metropolitan After turning to screenwriting fulltime from 2000 to 2015 he worked with writing partner Ashley Edward Miller beginning with Gene Roddenberrys Andromeda As a team they cowrote the films XMen First Class the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Thor and Agent Cody Banks He and Miller did some of the initial work on the project that became Top Gun Maverick a sequel to the 1986 Tom Cruise film Top Gun released in 2022 As writer and producer he worked on the Netflix science fiction adventure film Rim of the World 2019 directed by McG He has written and produced multiple television programs including Gene Roddenberrys Andromeda The CWs The Flash Foxs Fringe and Foxs Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles He also created and developed a forthcoming animated show based on a popular franchise for DreamWorks Universal and Netflix He has several projects in development including television programs for Skydance Television Warner Bros and HBO as well as the DC superhero film Booster Gold at Warner Bros and a remake of Big Trouble in Little China at Fox Additionally he cowrote the acclaimed young adult novel Colin Fischer and is currently writing an adventurethriller entitled Nevermore He also teaches screenwriting in the United States and in China He was a guest of the Wutianming Foundation in Tianjin and of Wanda Studios in Beijing where he taught young Chinese screenwriters the tricks and techniques of writing American action movies A native of Fort Bragg California Stentz was born to a father of German and Irish descent and a mother of Lebanese descent and has described himself as halfLebanese His daughter is autistic and Stentz himself has been described as exhibiting symptoms of the condition Description above from the Wikipedia article Zack Stentz licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia