Chuck Mondry

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Chuck Mondry
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Charles Mondry (born 1968) is an American screenwriter. [1] He is best known for co-writing the reboot of MGM's Road House (2024), starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Doug Liman. And Play Dirty (2025), an adaptation of Donald Westlake's Parker series about a professional thief, starring Mark Wahlberg and LaKeith Standfield, directed by Shane Black for Amazon. The screenplay was co-written with Black and Anthony Bagarozzi. [2]

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Mondry became a professional writer when he broke into the entertainment industry with a million dollar spec sale. The screenplay, entitled "Tick Tock" (co-written with Anthony Bagarozzi) [3] starred Jennifer Lopez and Samuel Jackson but was cancelled following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. [4] He is currently co-owner of Modern Pictures, with Anthony Bagarozzi and Randi Nguyen, which produces independently financed features. [5]

Mondry has several projects in development. [6] Sony Pictures, Doc Savage , a live-action movie adaptation to be directed by Shane Black and starring Dwayne Johnson, based on the pulp serial novels of the 1930s; [7] [8] Jekyll, a modern-day reimagining of the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, based on Steven Moffat's BBC mini-series and produced by Jeff Kleeman and Ellen DeGeneres for Summit Entertainment. [9] The Cold Warrior, a project Netflix acquired from Universal Pictures in late 2017, which tells the story of a retired Cold War spy who teams up with a younger agent to stop a terrorist threat orchestrated by Russia. [10] [11]

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  2. ↑ Grobar, Matt (2024-01-17). "Rosa Salazar Lands Female Lead Opposite Mark Wahlberg In Amazon MGM's 'Play Dirty'". Deadline. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
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