Chris Brancato

Chris Brancato (born July 24, 1962) is an American television and film writer and producer.

Early life Brancato grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and graduated in 1980 from Teaneck High School. He subsequently attended and graduated from Brown University.

Career Brancato wrote or was story editor for several episodes of the 1992 season of Beverly Hills, 90210. He co-wrote the X-Files episode ”Eve“, which first aired on December 10, 1993. Brancato created and wrote Space Channel's First Wave, which aired from 1998 to 2001, Brancato was also a writer/producer for the critically acclaimed 2002–2003 television series Boomtown.

Brancato wrote two episodes during season 12 of the long-running NBC legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, titled "Branded" and "Spectacle". Brancato moved on to be executive producer/show runner/head writer for the tenth season of the USA Network police-procedural Law & Order: Criminal Intent, a show that is related to Law & Order: SVU. Brancato did a police-procedural pilot for NBC titled Blue Tilt, where he was creator/executive producer with Vincent D'Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) and Ethan Hawke, who were also set to star in the project as well. On May 11, 2012, NBC decided not to bring it, and other pilots, to series. He created the Netflix series Narcos and Narcos: Mexico with Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro.

Brancato was credited as a co-screenwriter for third Sherlock Holmes film along with Joel Silver, Susan Downey and Lionel Wigram returning as producers, and Village Roadshow returning as co-producer. Warner Bros confirmed the third film will include Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law. The film had an expected release date December 22, 2021 but is currently undated.

Brancato is an executive producer, writer, and creator of the three MGM+ series Godfather of Harlem , Hotel Cocaine and The Westies.

Filmography Television

TV movies Year Title Writer Executiveproducer2002 Flashpoint 2003 Then Came Jones The Break 2005 Murder Book 2006 Sixty Minute Man Drift 2008 The Prince of Motor City 2010 True Blue 2017 Las Reinas

Feature film Writer Hoodlum (1997) (Also co-producer) Species II (1998)

Executive producer Stealing Harvard (2002)