Max Botkin | |
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Born | United States |
Occupation(s) | Television writer, screenwriter, film producer |
Max Botkin is an American screenwriter and producer. Botkin's original script for What Happened to Monday? was featured on the 2010 Blacklist for best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.[ citation needed ]
He began writing for TV with Wolverine and the X-Men . What Happened to Monday? was filmed by Tommy Wirkola and starred Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, and Willem Dafoe. [1] The film was released theatrically in France and Netflix bought the streaming rights to the film for the United States. [2] [3] He also wrote Robosapien: Rebooted (originally scheduled to be released in 2009, [4] the film was released in the US on May 28, 2013) and Opposite Day .
In 2015, Botkin sold his original screenplay Ponce to Lionsgate/Pantelion and is executive producing, with Eugenio Derbez attached to star, produce and direct. [5] In April 2017, Botkin signed a deal with 1stAvenueMachine to produce films with them through a directors incubator. [6] In 2016, he co-wrote Show Dogs . The film was released in the United States on May 18, 2018, [7] directed by Raja Gosnell.
The Oscar-nominee boards the sci-fi thriller as it starts principal photography in Romania.