Mark A. Altman
MARK A. ALTMAN is a showrunner/executive producer, director and writer. 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.
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