Michael Green is an American writer and producer. In addition to writing for television and comic books, Green has written or co-written several feature film screenplays, including Logan, Alien: Covenant, Blade Runner 2049 (all 2017) and the Hercule Poirot film series (2017–present). For Logan, which he co-wrote with James Mangold and Scott Frank, Green was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Early life and education
Green grew up in Mamaroneck, New York, the son of a real estate developer. His family is Jewish, and his mother is Israeli. He attended Stanford University. After graduating, Green returned to New York and was hired for a junior development job at HBO, where he spent his workday reading other writers' scripts.
Career
Green's first television writing credit was on Sex and the City. He was the creator and writer of the 2009 NBC series Kings, a drama based on the biblical story of King David but set in an alternate present. Other television credits also include Everwood, Smallville, Jack and Bobby and Heroes.
In 2007, Green, along with the rest of the Heroes writing staff, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series and the WGA Award for New Series. Heroes won for Favorite New TV Drama at the 33rd People's Choice Awards.
In 2009, Green was hired by 20th Century Fox to pen an early draft of Fantastic Four with Akiva Goldsman producing.
Green's feature writing career began with Green Lantern in 2011. He wrote or co-wrote four films released in 2017: James Mangold's Logan, Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049, and Kenneth Branagh's Murder on the Orient Express.
He developed, wrote and is an executive producer for the Starz series American Gods with Bryan Fuller. It is adapted from Neil Gaiman's novel of the same name.
Green later adapted two additional Agatha Christie mysteries, Death on the Nile (2022) and A Haunting in Venice (2023). As of November 2023 Green is a Non-writing executive producer on Marvel Studios's Blade. In 2023, he signed an overall deal with Netflix and co-created the adult animated series, Blue Eye Samurai. Currently, Green is developing season two of Blue Eye Samurai with co-creator Amber Noizumi. In 2024, Blue Eye Samurai won six Annie Awards, an Artios Award and four Emmy awards including Outstanding Animated Program.
Comic books
A contributor to DC Comics, Green is the author and co-author of several graphic novels, including Batman: Lovers and Madmen. He co-wrote Superman/Batman and the New 52 reboot of Supergirl, with Mike Johnson as well as the Blade Runner comic series Blade Runner 2019.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
2007 Emmy Award: Outstanding Drama Series – Heroes, nomination shared with Tim Kring, (executive producer), Dennis Hammer (executive producer), Allan Arkush (executive producer), Greg Beeman (co-executive producer), Jesse Alexander (co-executive producer), Jeph Loeb (co-executive producer), Bryan Fuller (co-executive producer), Natalie Chaidez (co-executive producer), James Chory (produced by), Adam Armus (supervising producer), and Nora Kay Foster
2007 Writers Guild of America Award: New Series – Heroes
2018 Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay nomination shared with James Mangold and Scott Frank for Logan
2024 Emmy Award: Outstanding Animated Program – Blue Eye Samurai: The Tale of the Ronin and the Bride (shared with Amber Noizumi, Erwin Stoff, Jane Wu, Nick Read and Michael Greenholt)
