Laeta Kalogridis

Laeta Kalogridis is an American screenwriter and television and film producer. She has written scripts for Alexander, Night Watch (2004), Pathfinder (2007) and Shutter Island (2010). and she co-wrote the screenplay for Terminator Genisys (2015) and Alita: Battle Angel (2019). She is the creator and executive producer of the Netflix series Altered Carbon (2018).

She is also the founder of the pro-union website Hollywood United and was involved as a peacemaker in the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.

Early life and education Laeta Kalogridis is of Greek descent; her grandparents emigrated from Kalymnos in the early 20th century. She graduated the MFA program for screenwriting at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. In March 1995, she was a writer of the early script for the 2000 X-Men film. In late 1999, she did uncredited work on the script for Scream 3.

In September 2000, she was hired to write the screenplay for the 2001 film adaptation of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Kalogridis created, executive produced and wrote multiple episodes of the 2002 series Birds of Prey. In September 2003, she was involved in the rewrite of the Wonder Woman live action film adaptation for Warner Bros. Kalogridis wrote a draft of the 2004 film Catwoman but ultimately did not receive a screenwriting credit. She was next credited as the screenwriter of the English language version of the 2004 film Night Watch, and also wrote the script for the 2004 film Alexander. In November 2005, she helped write Borgia, an ImageMovers film about the Borgia family in 15th century Rome. In February 2006 she began writing The Dive, director James Cameron's planned film about the freediver Francisco "Pipin" Ferraras and his wife Audrey Mestre.

In January 2007, she began writing Alita: Battle Angel, director James Cameron's planned film based on the classic cyberpunk manga Battle Angel Alita. In October 2007, she did a rewrite of the vampire film Darksiders for New Line Cinema. She was screenwriter for the 2007 film Pathfinder.

Kalogridis became involved as a peacemaker in the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, working with writers and producers to reach a solution. The New York Times reported her involvement, "Ms. Kalogridis and her friends... had become a pipeline to the guild members holding out for sizable gains, whose support would be needed if any deal was to be reached." She is also the founder of the pro-union website Hollywood United. She was executive producer and screenwriter of the 2010 film Shutter Island. In 2013, she and Patrick Lussier were both named co-writers for the fifth film in the Terminator series, Terminator Genisys.

In 2018, she was producer for the film The House with a Clock in Its Walls. She was also creator, screenwriter, and executive producer of Altered Carbon, a Netflix scifi series which premiered in February 2018. She co-wrote the film adaptation of the manga Battle Angel Alita along with James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez, a film released on February 14, 2019. In 2016 she was reported to be writing and executive producing a live-action series of Sword Art Online for Netflix . , such a series has not premiered.

In May 2019, BuzzFeed News reported that Kalogridis had been hired in the spring of 2018 to write a film based on the 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and that she was close to completing the first script of a potential trilogy based on the series. Representatives refused to comment, the latest commentary about the progress of this project were made in 2023, by producer Charles Roven and Gal Gadot, respectively.

In 2026, Kalogridis was attached to The Patient, a horror drama developing at HBO starring Halle Berry.

Filmography Denotes productions that have not yet been released

Film Year Title Writer Executiveproducer2004 Night Watch Alexander 2007 Pathfinder 2009 Avatar 2010 Shutter Island 2015 Terminator Genisys 2018 The House with a Clock in Its Walls American Dream/American Knightmare 2019 Alita: Battle Angel 2022 Ambulance 2025 Another Simple Favor

Producer White House Down (2013)

Uncredited script revisions X-Men (2000) Scream 3 (2000) Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) Catwoman (2004) Knight and Day (2010) Ghost in the Shell (2017) Geostorm (2017)

Special thanks Dracula 2000 (2000)

Actor Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective (2011) - Documentary film, herself

Television Year Title Writer ExecutiveProducer Creator Notes 2002-2003 Birds of Prey Wrote episodes "Premiere" and unaired pilot 2007 Bionic Woman Episode: "Pilot" and the unaired pilot 2018-2020 Altered Carbon Wrote 3 episodes