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Karl Gajdusek was born on 30 July, 1968 in San Francisco, California, U.S., is an American dramatist. Discover Karl Gajdusek's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 55 years old?

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Occupation Screenwriter
Age 55 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 30 July 1968
Birthday 30 July
Birthplace San Francisco, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1968

Karl Gajdusek (born 30 July 1968) is an American screenwriter, producer, and playwright.

He was the showrunner for the first season of the Netflix series Stranger Things and the co-creator of the TV series Last Resort with Shawn Ryan.

They were both also executive producers for the series.

Karl Gajdusek was born on 30 July 1968 in San Francisco, California, United States.

Gajdusek's first professional break came through an option by independent producer Jeff Young for his screenplay Widow's Walk.

Although the film would never be produced, Young's attempts to get the film made landed Gajdusek with his first agent.

Gajdusek's next film, Higher was developed with director James Foley and later with director John McNaughton.

For a period of time, Gajdusek teamed with screenwriter Michael Finch.

Together they sold a number of pitches to various buyers including two to WWE Films.

2009

Their script based on the Bill Granger's The November Man novel, There Are No Spies, titled The November Man, first developed in 2009, began shooting in Belgrade in 2013 with Pierce Brosnan starring in the lead role.

2011

Gajdusek also wrote for the series Dead Like Me and wrote the film Trespass (2011).

After doing uncredited work on The Mechanic and the Liam Neeson film Unknown, Gajdusek wrote Trespass for Irwin Winkler which was released in 2011.

Also in 2011, Gajdusek began work on two projects which would shape the direction of his career.

The first was a screenplay based on the Rick Remender and Greg Toocchini graphic novel The Last Days of American Crime.

Gajdusek claims it as one of his favorite pieces of writing.

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.

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.

2013

He co-wrote the screenplay for the 2013 Tom Cruise movie, Oblivion, and The November Man, which was released in 2014.

Oblivion premiered in March 2013.

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.

2014

The film would finally premiere in 2014.

Meanwhile, Gajdusek wrote a solo feature script, Pandora, redefining him as a darker dramatic writer.

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.

2015

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.

2016

In 2016, Gajdusek sold an original science fiction epic, Courage, to 20th Century Fox where it caught the attention of director Matthew Vaughan who became attached to direct.

This partnership led to Gajdusek writing the script for a prequel in Vaughn's Kingsman franchise.

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.

2017

In 2017, Gajdusek was hired as Showrunner for the second season of Amazon's series about Zelda Fitzgerald: "Z: The Beginning of Everything."

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.

2018

Director Olivier Megaton came on board in 2018 and the film will premier on Netflix in 2019.

2019

That film wrapped shooting in May, 2019.

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".