Craig Mazin

Craig Mazin (born 1971) is an American writer, director, and producer. He is best known for creating, writing, and producing the HBO historical disaster drama miniseries Chernobyl (2019) and co-creating, co-writing, and executive producing the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us (2023–present), the latter alongside Neil Druckmann. He has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special and Outstanding Limited Series. Prior to gaining attention and acclaim for his dramatic work, Mazin was primarily known for his work on comedy films such as Scary Movie 3 (2003), Scary Movie 4 (2006), Superhero Movie (2008), The Hangover Part II (2011), The Hangover Part III, and Identity Thief (both 2013). Description above from the Wikipedia article Craig Mazin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie

George Hardy, a shepherd who loves his sheep and raises them only for their wool. Every night he reads aloud a murder mystery, pretending his sheep can understand, never suspecting that not only can they understand, but they argue for hours afterwards about whodunnit. When George is found dead under mysterious circumstances, the sheep realise at once that it was a murder and think they know everything about how to go about solving it. The local cop Tim Derry, on the other hand, has never solved a serious crime in his life, so the sheep conclude they will have to solve it themselves, even if it means leaving their meadow for the first time and facing the fact that the human world isn’t as simple as it appears in books.

Release Date:2026-02-20

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Wicked: For Good

With the Wizard and the entirety of Oz framing her as wicked, Elphaba’s righteous crusade comes into conflict with Glinda’s struggle for power. As a mysterious cyclone brings in an unwitting young outsider, the former friends will soon discover how much their actions have changed each other, and all of Oz, for good. The second part of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical phenomenon.

Release Date:2025-11-19

Department:Crew

Job:Additional Writing

Wicked

In the land of Oz, ostracized and misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba is forced to share a room with the popular aristocrat Glinda at Shiz University, and the two's unlikely friendship is tested as they begin to fulfill their respective destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

Release Date:2024-11-20

Department:Crew

Job:Additional Writing

Vote Count:1786

The Apprentice

A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

Release Date:2024-10-09

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:493

Dune: Part Two

Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.

Release Date:2024-02-27

Department:Crew

Job:Additional Writing

Vote Count:6304

Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II

Learn directly from the team at Naughty Dog about what it took to bring the acclaimed sequel The Last of Us Part II to life, with a new behind-the-scenes look at development.

Release Date:2024-02-02

Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Vote Count:7

Making of The Last of Us

Featuring extensive interviews with the cast and crew, this all-access documentary gives a rare glimpse into the daunting behind-the-scenes efforts that went into the production of the HBO Original smash hit series The Last of Us.

Release Date:2023-03-12

Character:Self

Vote Count:22

The Last of Us

Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for survival.

Release Date:2023-01-15

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:16

Vote Count:5364

Mythic Quest

Meet the team behind the biggest multiplayer video game of all time. But in a workplace focused on building worlds, molding heroes, and creating legends, the most hard-fought battles don’t occur in the game—they happen in the office.

Release Date:2020-02-07

Department:Production

Job:Consulting Producer

Character:Sol Green

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:355

Chernobyl

The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

Release Date:2019-05-06

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:6619

Stripped

A true story: An unconventional mother on the run from the government and determined to keep her family together, sets up home in a tent and attempts to create a sense of normalcy.

Release Date:2016-09-07

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:5

The Huntsman: Winter's War

As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna in Snowwhite and the Huntsman, and his forbidden lover, Sara—set out to stop them.

Release Date:2016-04-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4828

Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective

The definitive story of The Hangover Trilogy: Including Zach's unlikely audition as "Alan," the truth behind Ed Helms missing tooth, the casting of a drug-dealing monkey and the wildly improbable rendezvous with a former president.

Release Date:2013-12-03

Character:Self

The Hangover Part III

This time, there's no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off.

Release Date:2013-05-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:8737

Identity Thief

When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.

Release Date:2013-02-07

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:3338

The Hangover Part II

The Hangover crew heads to Thailand for Stu's wedding. After the disaster of a bachelor party in Las Vegas last year, Stu is playing it safe with a mellow pre-wedding brunch. However, nothing goes as planned and Bangkok is the perfect setting for another adventure with the rowdy group.

Release Date:2011-05-25

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:10593

Superhero Movie

Rick Riker is a nerdy teen imbued with superpowers by a radioactive dragonfly. And because every hero needs a nemesis, enter Lou Landers, aka the villainously goofy Hourglass.

Release Date:2008-03-28

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:"Okay, I come back"

Vote Count:1846

Heckler

HECKLER is a comedic feature documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After starring in a film that was critically bashed, Jamie Kennedy takes on hecklers and critics and ask some interesting questions of people such as George Lucas, Bill Maher, Mike Ditka, Rob Zombie, Howie Mandel and many more. This fast moving, hilarious documentary pulls no punches as you see an uncensored look at just how nasty and mean the fight is between those in the spotlight and those in the dark.

Release Date:2007-11-04

Character:Self

Vote Count:49

School for Scoundrels

In the hope of winning the woman of his dreams, Amanda, lovelorn meter-reader Roger Wadell enrolls in a secret confidence-building class. The course's title takes on much more meaning when he discovers that his egomaniacal professor Dr. P also wants the same woman. They begin a fierce rivalry that quickly spirals out of control, their pranks and insults get uglier as they try to prove who is the ultimate guy's guy.

Release Date:2006-09-29

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:359

Scary Movie 4

Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.

Release Date:2006-04-12

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:Saw Villain (voice)

Vote Count:3294

Scary Movie 3

In the third installment of the Scary Movie franchise, news anchorwoman Cindy Campbell has to investigate mysterious crop circles and killing video tapes, and help the President stop an alien invasion in the process.

Release Date:2003-10-24

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:4129

The Specials

America's seventh best superhero team, the Specials, are a group of geeks and oddballs. Lifelong fan Nightbird joins the group just in time for the group to get a new line of action figures. But the members' extreme personalities and personal issues threaten to rip the group apart.

Release Date:2000-09-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:37

Senseless

A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.

Release Date:1998-02-20

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:364

RocketMan

Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there.

Release Date:1997-10-10

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:128

The Pursuit Of Victory

Frank, highly successful coach in the mid 80's, but his forced retirement due to match-fixing, forced him to stay away from the world of soccer. In other side, Matt, a good kid, good grades, got into a problem with some rude, older boys. Matt and his friends are forced to get into a game they don't want to loose. Matt see's in Frank his only hope. Will they have what it takes?

Character:Norm