Mark Bomback
{{short description|American film producer}}
{{About|the screenwriter|the baseball player|Mark Bomback (baseball)}}
{{Infobox writer
|name = Mark Bomback
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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1971|08|29}}
|birth_place = New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
|alma_mater = Wesleyan University
|occupation = Screenwriter
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Mark Bomback (born August 29, 1971) is an American screenwriter, originally from New Rochelle, New York. Bomback is a graduate of Wesleyan University, where he studied English Literature and Film Studies.[http://www.screenwritersutopia.com/modules.php?name=ScribeContent&pa=showpage&pid=223 Mark Bomback] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061018220426/http://www.screenwritersutopia.com/modules.php?name=ScribeContent&pa=showpage&pid=223 |date=2006-10-18 }} Screenwriter's Utopia{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/377551/Mark-Bomback|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080113221231/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/377551/Mark-Bomback|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-01-13|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2008|title=Mark Bomback}}
Biography
In 1994, Bomback began working as an assistant for Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey, holding the job for a year. His first credited screenplay was The Night Caller (1998). He has since gone on to co-write the scripts to numerous blockbuster films, including Live Free or Die Hard (2007), The Wolverine (2013) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), and War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), as well as doing uncredited rewrites on several high-profile films, such as Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), Logan and The Mummy (both 2017).
Bomback lives in Chappaqua, New York with his wife and four children. He is neighbors with former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Filmography
= Films =
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| Year
! Title ! Director ! Notes |
|---|
| 1998
|Robert Malenfant | |
| 2004
|Also co-producer |
| 2007
| |
| 2008
| |
| 2009
| |
| 2010
| |
| 2012
|Len Wiseman | |
| 2013
| |
| 2014
|Dawn of the Planet of the Apes |Also executive producer |
| 2015
|The Divergent Series: Insurgent | |
| 2017
|War for the Planet of the Apes |Matt Reeves |Also executive producer |
| 2018
|Outlaw King{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/festivals/outlaw-king-review-chris-pine-1202929757/|title=Film Review: Chris Pine in 'Outlaw King'|last=Debruge|first=Peter|work=Variety|date=September 6, 2018|accessdate=October 28, 2020}} |Additional writing |
| 2019
|The Art of Racing in the Rain | |
| 2024
| |
Uncredited
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| Year
! Title ! Director ! Notes |
|---|
| 2011
| Rise of the Planet of the Apes | |
| 2015
| Fifty Shades of Grey{{cite web|last=Siegel|first=Tatiana|date=August 3, 2017|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/how-planet-apes-writer-mark-bomback-got-his-improbable-hollywood-start-1026412|title=How Planet of the Apes Writer Mark Bomback Got His Improbable Hollywood Start|work=The Hollywood Reporter|accessdate=May 9, 2018}} | |
| rowspan=2|2017
| Logan | James Mangold | |
| The Mummy
| |
=Television=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Writer ! Creator ! Producer ! Notes |
|---|
| 2014
| Legends | {{yes}} | {{yes|Developer}} | {{yes|Consulting}} | |
| 2020
| {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|Executive}} | Miniseries |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0093560}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050517161620/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/p/mark_bomback/ Mark Bomback] entry at Rotten Tomatoes
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080424155618/http://movies.go.com/the-night-caller/d795048/horror The Night Caller] at Movies.com
- [http://www.scriptsandscribes.com/2013/10/qa-with-mark-bomback Interview] with Mark Bomback at [http://www.scriptsandscribes.com Scripts & Scribes]
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