Craig Mazin
| Craig Mazin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 8, 1971 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1997–present |
Craig Mazin (born April 8, 1971) is an American screenwriter and film director.
Life and career
Mazin was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised on Staten Island, New York. He moved to Marlboro Township, New Jersey when he was a teen and attended Freehold High School which inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 2010.[1] He graduated magna cum laude with a degree in psychology from Princeton University in 1992. His freshman year roommate at Princeton was Ted Cruz, now the junior U.S. Senator from Texas and a former Republican candidate for the 2016 presidential election year.[2][3] He has been highly critical of Cruz and ridicules him frequently from his Twitter account.
My freshman year college roommate Ted Cruz is going to be elected Senator. In case I hadn't made it clear, he's also a huge asshole.[4]
And in reference to a 2007 brief from the Cruz office stating "there is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one's genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship,"[5] in an attempt to ban sex toys:
Ted Cruz thinks people don't have a right to "stimulate their genitals." I was his college roommate. This would be a new belief of his.[6]
He began his entertainment career in marketing; he was an executive with the Walt Disney Company in the mid-1990s, responsible for writing and producing campaigns for studio films.
As a screenwriter, his credited work includes Senseless, RocketMan, Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4 and Identity Thief. Other projects in development include the upcoming movie Opus, an animated collaboration with cartoonist Berkeley Breathed. He produced and directed (but did not write) the low-budget superhero film The Specials. Mazin wrote and directed another superhero film spoof Superhero Movie. He also co-wrote the script for The Hangover films, parts II and III.
In 2004, Mazin was elected to the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America, West. He did not seek re-election, and his term expired in September 2006.
Along with fellow former WGA board member Ted Elliott, Mazin used to run a website called The Artful Writer, which focused on issues relevant to working screenwriters. It closed in 2011.
In 2011, Mazin and fellow screenwriter John August began Scriptnotes, a weekly podcast on the craft of screenwriting and the film industry.[7]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | RocketMan | Writer | |
| 1998 | Senseless | Writer | |
| 2000 | The Specials | Director, Co-Producer | |
| 2003 | Scary Movie 3 | Writer | |
| 2006 | Scary Movie 4 | Writer, Producer | |
| 2006 | School for Scoundrels | Executive Producer | |
| 2008 | Superhero Movie | Writer, Director, Producer | |
| 2011 | The Hangover Part II | Writer | |
| 2012 | The Words | Special Thanks | |
| 2013 | Identity Thief | Writer | |
| 2013 | The Hangover Part III | Writer | |
| 2013 | Free Birds | Special Thanks | |
| 2016 | The Huntsman: Winter's War | Writer |
References
- ↑ Celano, Clare Marie. "Freehold Hall of Fame inductees to be feted", News Transcript, March 3, 2010. Accessed February 5, 2011. "Screenwriter and author Craig Mazin, a native of Staten Island, N.Y., was 13 when he moved to Marlboro."
- ↑ http://theslot.jezebel.com/fuckin-craig-mazin-an-appreciation-of-ted-cruzs-colleg-1746278435
- ↑ Patricia Murphy. "Ted Cruz at Princeton: Creepy, Sometimes Well Liked, and Exactly the Same"
- ↑ https://twitter.com/clmazin/status/261785032253919233 Said on October 26th 2012
- ↑ http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/ted-cruz-dildo-ban-sex-devices-texas
- ↑ https://twitter.com/clmazin/status/720259227067920385 Said on April 13, 2016
- ↑ Scriptnotes on iTunes
External links
- Craig Mazin on Twitter
- Craig Mazin at the Internet Movie Database