Jeremy Slater

Jeremy Slater is an American writer and producer of film and television, known for his work on films such as Fantastic Four, Death Note and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and on television series such as The Umbrella Academy and The Exorcist, which Slater created, and on which he served as executive producer. He is the head writer and executive producer for the Disney+ miniseries Moon Knight.

Jeremy Slater
Slater at the 2017 New York Comic Con
Born	1979 or 1980
Alma mater	University of Notre Dame
Occupation(s)	Producer, writer
Years active	2015–present

Career

Slater wrote My Spy, an action comedy film which will be directed by Jake Kasdan,^[1] as well as Tape 4, a horror film to be produced by Primal Pictures,^[2] and Man of Tomorrow, a superhero noir film which was included in the 2012 Black List.

In July 2012, Slater was hired to write the script for the 2015 Fantastic Four film.^[2] After the film was released in August 2015, Slater commented that a lot of what he wrote was not in the finished film (particularly his version of the first act), but that he'll "always be honored that [he] got to play in such a cool sandbox."^[3]

Slater's original version of the script for Fantastic Four was said to feel more in tone to a Marvel Studios movie, being an action-packed superhero adventure in contrast to the final film's dark and realistic tone. It included the villains Galactus, who is the source for the titular characters' powers, Mole Man, and Doctor Doom as a Latverian dictator and herald to Galactus, in contrast to the antisocial programmer he was portrayed as in the finished film.^[4]

Slater wrote a draft of the live-action American film adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's manga series Death Note (2017), which was directed by Adam Wingard.^[5] The finished version of the film had its script revised by Kyle Killen.^[6]

Slater is the creator and executive producer of The Exorcist, a TV drama based on the film with the same name.^[7]

In November 2019, Slater was hired as the head writer and executive producer for the Disney+ series Moon Knight by Marvel Studios.^[8]

He co-wrote the Warner Bros. Pictures film Coyote vs. Acme with James Gunn, Jon Silberman, Josh Silberman and Samy Burch.^[9][10] The film was shelved in February 2024.^[11]

In January 2022, Slater was hired to write a sequel to Mortal Kombat.^[12] In August 2022, Collider reported that Slater had co-written the screenplay for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire with Terry Rossio and Simon Barrett.^[13]

In January 2023, it was revealed that he had joined a writers' room assembled by James Gunn to map out the overarching story of the DC Universe.^[14]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
2015	The Lazarus Effect	Co-wrote with Luke Dawson	[15]
	Fantastic Four	Co-wrote with Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank	[16]
2016	Pet
2017	Death Note	Co-wrote with Charles Parlapanides and Vlas Parlapanides	[17]
2024	Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire	Co-wrote with Terry Rossio and Simon Barrett	[18]
2025	Mortal Kombat 2	Post-production	[12]
2026	Coyote vs. Acme		[19]

Executive producer

• Stephanie (2017)

Television

Year	Title	Writer	Executive producer	Creator	Notes
2016–18	The Exorcist	Yes	Yes	Yes	4 episodes
2019–20	The Umbrella Academy	Yes	Yes	No	Also developer and consultant; Teleplay: "We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals"
2022	Moon Knight	Yes	Yes	Yes	2 episodes