Akiva Goldsman
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Akiva J. Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American film and television writer best known for his work on blockbuster motion pictures and adaptations of famous books; Batman Forever and its sequel Batman & Robin; I, Robot; Cinderella Man; and a number of other rewrites that are both acknowledged and uncredited.
He also wrote more than a dozen episodes for the science fiction television series Fringe. Goldsman was given the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind, which also received the Academy Award for Best Picture. Goldsman re-teamed with A Beautiful Mind producer Ron Howard in 2006 to adapt Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code for Howard's film.
He also wrote the screenplay for its 2009 prequel Angels & Demons.
Early life
Goldsman was born in New York City to Jewish parents and raised in Brooklyn Heights. Tev Goldsman and Mira Rothenberg, both clinical child psychologists who operated a group home for emotionally troubled children. He graduated from Saint Ann's School, as well as in Brooklyn Heights, where he says he met many people with whom he later worked in the entertainment industry. He received his bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and attended New York University's graduate fiction-writing program.
Personal life
Rebecca Spikings-Goldsman, Goldsman's first wife, died of a heart attack on July 6, 2010, at the age of 42. Rebecca was the niece of producer Barry Spikings' daughter.
Akiva's second wife Joann Richter married him in 2012. The couple were married in 2014 and have two children, and divide their time between Los Angeles and New York.
Career
Goldsman has a production company at Warner Bros. named Weed Road Pictures.
He produced the Universal Pictures feature Lone Survivor, from writer/director Peter Berg, based on the book Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell. It tells the story of Luttrell's Navy SEAL team in 2005 Afghanistan, on a mission to kill a terrorist leader. It starred Mark Wahlberg, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster and Taylor Kitsch, and was released in 2013.
Goldsman made his feature film directing debut with Winter's Tale, a film adaption of the Mark Helprin novel, starting Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, Will Smith and William Hurt. It was released on February 14, 2014. He also directed the horror thriller film Stephanie (2017) with Frank Grillo in the leading role. He co-wrote and produced the film adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, released on August 4, 2017, which was one of Goldsman's post-Apotheosis films.
In June 2015, Paramount Pictures announced that Goldsman would head a team of writers and filmmakers to create a multifilm cinematic universe branching out from Hasbro's Transformers franchise. In 2017, his Weed Road company was signed with Paramount.
Goldsman was revealed in September 2018 to have been on the writing staff for Star Trek: Picard, revolving around the later years of the character of Jean-Luc Picard.
In 2020, Goldsman was revealed to be the creator and showrunner of the forthcoming CBS series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
In 2008, Goldsman joined the first season crew of the Fox horror/mystery series Fringe as writer, director, and consulting producer. The first episode Goldsman directed and wrote was "Bad Dreams". In its fifth season, Goldsman remained a consulting producer. Episodes he contributed to included: