Aaron Guzikowski

Guzikowski was raised in Brockton, Massachusetts. He was interested in visual arts as a child, and went on to complete a Master of Fine Arts with a major in film. He was unable to find any work in the New York City film industry after graduating but began writing spec scripts in his spare time while working other jobs, and found a manager in Los Angeles. Guzikowski began writing the script for Prisoners in 2007, and completed the final draft in 2009.[1] Before the film entered production, Guzikowski's script won several screenwriting competitions and was listed on The Black List, a survey of the most popular unproduced screenplays in circulation in Hollywood. After he sold the script to Alcon Entertainment, the project became stuck in development hell for a number of years as various directors and cast members, including Bryan Singer, Christian Bale and Leonardo DiCaprio, signed on only to drop out later. The final film, directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, was released in 2013, almost four years after Guzikowski had completed the script. Guzikowski's next project was an adaptation of the 2008 Icelandic film Reykjavík-Rotterdam, titled Contraband. He was hired to write the script by actor Mark Wahlberg, who had once been attached to star in Prisoners but wanted to produce another project written by Guzikowski. Although the script was written after Prisoners, it was released a year earlier, in 2012. Guzikowski was approached by television producer Sarah Condon with an idea for a television series about the Ramapough Mountain Indians; he then created The Red Road, which began airing on SundanceTV in 2014. The series was renewed for a second season to air in 2015. Guzikowski initially co-wrote Seventh Son for Warner Bros. But after the film was purchased by Universal, he went uncredited for his work. In November 2014, Universal hired Guzikowski to write a reboot of The Wolf Man. In December 2015, Guzikowski was negotiating with Paramount Pictures to write a script for a Friday the 13th reboot. In the end, the project was cancelled. September 2020 saw the release of the HBO Max series Raised by Wolves, which he created and wrote the majority of scripts for; one of the series' executive-producers is Ridley Scott. He then signed a overall deal with HBO Max.

Works

Raised by Wolves
7.5

Raised by Wolves

After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.

Release Date:2020-09-03

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:1551

7.3

Papillon

Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.

Release Date:2017-09-07

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1954

The Red Road
6.7

The Red Road

Lines will be crossed when tragedy forces two men, a mesmerizing ex-con and an embattled local cop, to face the secrets of their past. As these two men find themselves increasingly compromised by one another, the lives of both quickly unravel.

Release Date:2014-02-27

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:46

8.1

Prisoners

Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.

Release Date:2013-09-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:11981

6.3

Contraband

When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.

Release Date:2012-01-12

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:2072

The Dwelling

A newly divorced father and former all-pro football player trying to ease into retirement discovers a house buried in his backyard. As things begin to go awry, the hits he took on the field start to make him unsure of what is real and imagined.

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

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