Karl Gajdusek

Karl Gajdusek (born 30 July 1968) and The November Man, which was released in 2014.

Early life Karl Gajdusek was born on 30 July 1968

Also in 2011, Gajdusek began work on a rewrite of the Joe Kosinski directed Oblivion. Gajdusek would work for almost a year on the film, through the casting of Tom Cruise and the switch from Disney Pictures to Universal Studios. Oblivion premiered in March 2013. This partnership led to Gajdusek writing the script for a prequel in Vaughn's Kingsman franchise. That film wrapped shooting in May, 2019.

Television Gajdusek landed his first job in television as a story editor on the second season of the Showtime series Dead Like Me. For Dead Like Me Gajdusek wrote on four episodes: "Haunted", "Death Defying", "Rites of Passage", and "The Shallow End". After the cancellation of the series, Gajdusek returned to screenwriting until he paired with Shawn Ryan in 2011 to co-create the ABC television series Last Resort which ran on ABC for a season in 2012.

In June, 2013, Gajdusek began to develop a science fiction television epic, The Spark for HBO. In August 2013, Gajdusek re-teamed with the Last Resort team of Shawn Ryan, Sony Pictures Television, and ABC to announce a new show, Freedom, about the rise of a hacktivist collective on the campus of an elite university. While Freedom did not survive at ABC, in 2014 Gajdusek paired with novelist Gary Shteyngart to adapt his novel Super Sad True Love Story into a television series with the production company MRC. In early 2015 this project was announced along with the attachment of Ben Stiller to direct many of the episodes.

In 2015, Gajdusek came on to the Netflix series Stranger Things as showrunner of the first season. In early 2016 it was announced that Super Sad True Love Story had been purchased by Showtime with Gajdusek and Shteyngart both as creators and executive producers. In 2017, Gajdusek was hired as Showrunner for the second season of Amazon's series about Zelda Fitzgerald: "Z: The Beginning of Everything."

List of film and television The Spark (TBA) (Television series—UCP) Freedom (TBA) (Television series for Sony TV/ABC) Super Sad True Love Story (TBA) (Television series at Showtime, MRC studios) The King's Man (2021) (screenplay) The Last Days of American Crime (2020) Blood Brother (2018) Stranger Things (2016) When the Bough Breaks (2016) (uncredited rewrite) The November Man (2014) (screenplay) Oblivion (2013) (screenplay) Last Resort (2012–2013) ABC series (co-creator, executive producer) Trespass (2011) (written by)

Playwriting Gajdusek's plays have been produced across the country and in New York. They include Greedy, FUBAR, Fair Game, Silverlake, North, Minneapolis, Dr.s F.s in the Terminal Ward, Big Sun Setting Fast, The Gilded Garden of Patcheww, Malibu, and Waco, Texas, Mon Amour. Attending Redwood High School in Marin County, California, Gajdusek was a member of The Ensemble Theatre Company of Marin which started him on a path of ensemble-based, avant-garde theater-making which lasted through his college years. Gajdusek's early plays were surreal and poetic in nature while his later work turned personal and naturalistic. Gajdusek has been a member of New Dramatists in New York and The Playwright's Center in Minneapolis. After finishing the play Greedy for Manhattan theater company Clubbed Thumb, Gajdusek temporarily stopped writing plays to focus on writing for the screen.

List of plays Waco, Texas, Mon Amour Malibu Minneapolis North Silverlake Fair Game FUBAR Greedy stranger things