Ed Polgardy

Ed Polgardy president of Black Hat Magic Productions is an acclaimed comic book creatorwritereditor an EmmyAwardwinning television producerdirector and a successful feature film writerproducerdirector Polgardy cocreated the internationally acclaimed hit comic book series From The Darkness and From The Darkness Blood Vows and wrote the graphic novel adaptation of Quentin Tarantinos From Dusk Til Dawn As Senior Editor at Jim Shooters Defiant Comics he developed wrote and edited several hit titles including The Good Guys and Dark Dominion penciled by SpiderMan cocreator Steve Ditko Polgardy also held the EditorinChief position at BIG Entertainment where he worked with celebrity concept creators John Jakes Mickey Spillane Tom Clancy and Neil Gaiman The resulting intellectual properties were licensed to Miramax Alliance Entertainment and ABC TV Polgardys TV work includes producing and directing Todays Environment starring Ed Begley Jr Millennium hosted by Peter Weller The Best of Wine and Food featuring George Hamilton COM and COM Kids starring Mark Hamill Elegance with Ivana featuring Ivana Trump Women in Charge with Nancy Glass First Priority hosted by Hunter Tylo Healthy Solutions starring Mariette Hartley and Monsterama featuring Cassandra Elvira Peterson Polgardy also helped create PriceParker a television production company where he developed produced and directed Identity a femaleempowerment show that aired on The Learning Channel Moving into fictional programming Polgardy produced Oh Jerome No starring Mamoudou Athie Natasha Lyonne and Georgina Campbell a shortform television serieseight 12minute episodesthat aired on Cake on Foxs FXX Network As a screenwriter Polgardy has had a number of his feature film scripts optioned and greenlit for production Polgardy produced the motion pictures Masked Mutilator featuring Brick Bronsky Glenn Hetrick and James DeBello which he also cowrote The Halfway House starring cultfilm icon Mary Woronov The Ghostmaker starring Aaron Dean Eisenberg Window Of Opportunity with producing partner John Densmore legendary rocknroll drummer from The Doors Dark Desire featuring Kelly Lynch and Michael Nouri Megachurch Murder starring MalcolmJamal Warner Corbin Bleu and Romeo Miller The Wretched featuring JohnPaul Howard Piper Curda and Azie Tesfai which was the number one movie in America for six weeks straight in the summer of 2020 and went straight into the top five on its first day of release on Netflix in the summer of 2022 and Feed Me starring Christopher Mulvin Neal Ward and Samantha Loxley which had its world premiere at LAs Beyond Fest in October of 2022 and racked up numerous awards on the international film festival circuit including multiple Best Picture Best Actor and Best Director awards He line produced Boiler Maker starring John Savage and coproduced Laid to Rest featuring Lena Headey and Thomas Dekker As a second unit director Polgardy worked on Deaths Door Laid to Rest Dark House The Ghostmaker and The Wretched