Aaron Guzikowski

Aaron Guzikowski is an American screenwriter. He is best known for writing the 2013 film Prisoners and creating the 2014 television series The Red Road. In 2020, he created the HBO Max series Raised by Wolves.

Career Guzikowski was raised in Brockton, Massachusetts. He was interested in visual arts as a child and completed a Master of Fine Arts with a major in film. He was unable to find any work in New York City after graduation but began writing spec scripts in his spare time while working other jobs with the help of a manager in Los Angeles.

He conceived Prisoners in 2007 and completed a final draft in 2009.

His next project was an adaptation of the 2008 Icelandic film Reykjavík-Rotterdam titled Contraband. He was hired by actor Mark Wahlberg, who had once been attached to star in Prisoners. Although the script was written after Prisoners, it was released a year earlier in 2012.

He was approached by television producer Sarah Condon with an idea for a television series about the Ramapough Mountain Indians, resulting in The Red Road for SundanceTV in 2014. The series ended after its second season in 2015.

Guzikowski initially co-wrote Seventh Son for Warner Bros.; the project ended up at Universal, without credit for his work. In November 2014, Universal hired him to write a reboot of The Wolf Man. In December 2015, he was in negotiations for a Friday the 13th reboot at Paramount Pictures which was ultimately cancelled.

He is the creator and primary screenwriter of Raised by Wolves, released in September 2020 on HBO Max as part of an overall deal with the network. In September 2025 it was announced that he will be the screenplay writer for the upcoming animated film Death Stranding Mosquito (Working Title)

Personal life Guzikowski is of Polish descent — his great-grandmother was from Poland. He moved to Los Angeles after selling his first script in 2009,

Filmography Film Year Title Writer Producer Director Notes 2012 Contraband 2013 Prisoners 2017 Papillon TBA Death Stranding Mosquito (Working Title)

Television Year Title Writer Producer Creator Notes 2014–2015 The Red Road Wrote 8 episodes 2020–2022 Raised by Wolves Wrote 12 episodes