Writing

Aaron Guzikowski

Born January 29, 1974 · Brockton, Massachusetts, USA (age 52)

Aaron Guzikowski is an American screenwriter. He is best known for writing the 2013 film Prisoners and creating the 2014 television series The Red Road. In 2020, he created the HBO Max series Raised by Wolves. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aaron Guzikowski, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Prisoners

Prisoners · 2013

MovieDramaThriller

After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search descends into obsession and moral compromise.

Papillon

Papillon · 2017

MovieAdventureCrime

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.

Contraband

Contraband · 2012

MovieThrillerAction

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.

DEATH STRANDING MOSQUITO

DEATH STRANDING MOSQUITO

DEATH STRANDING MOSQUITO

MovieAnimationScience Fiction

An animated feature film set in the universe of Hideo Kojima's award-winning video game, Death Stranding, telling an original story.

Raised by Wolves

Raised by Wolves · 2020

Raised by Wolves

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

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.

The Red Road

The Red Road · 2014

SeriesCrimeDrama

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.

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Prisoners

Prisoners · 2013

MovieDramaThriller

After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search descends into obsession and moral compromise.

Writer

Papillon

Papillon · 2017

MovieAdventureCrime

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.

Screenplay

Contraband

Contraband · 2012

MovieThrillerAction

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.

Screenplay

DEATH STRANDING MOSQUITO

DEATH STRANDING MOSQUITO

DEATH STRANDING MOSQUITO

MovieAnimationScience Fiction

An animated feature film set in the universe of Hideo Kojima's award-winning video game, Death Stranding, telling an original story.

Writer

Raised by Wolves

Raised by Wolves · 2020

Raised by Wolves

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

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.

Executive Producer

The Red Road

The Red Road · 2014

SeriesCrimeDrama

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.

Creator