Justin Marks

Justin Marks born April 27 1980 is an American screenwriter producer and television showrunner He is best known for writing Disneys liveaction remake of The Jungle Book cowriting Top Gun Maverick and for creating and showrunning the Starz espionage thriller Counterpart One of the first scripts he penned was Street Fighter The Legend of Chun Li for 20th Century Fox A year prior he had written a script for a potential HeMan film Initially entitled Grayskull The Masters of The Universe the script was praised by fans yet was never used since the script was rewritten with the film still being in development hell In July 2013 Marks was hired by Disney to write a liveaction adaptation of The Jungle Book Jon Favreau came on board as director and the film was released in April 2016 In June 2015 it was revealed that Marks was working on the screenplay for a sequel to the 1986 film Top Gun The film titled Top Gun Maverick was released in theaters in May 2022 with Marks credited with cowriting the films story with Peter Craig In 2016 Marks was working on a Jungle Book sequel with Favreau returning as director Marks created the Starz sciencefiction thriller Counterpart starring J K Simmons The show was ordered straighttoseries for two 10episode seasons The first episode premiered December 10 2017 In 2020 Marks and his wife Rachel Kondo started working on the TV adaptation of Shogun the famous novel by James Clavell It released in 2024 to critical acclaim