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Javier "Javi" Grillo-Marxuach (
listen (help·info)), born October 28, 1969 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a television screenwriter and producer, best known for his work as writer and producer on the first two seasons of the ABC television series Lost, though he has also written for a number of other series including Charmed and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
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Biography
Grillo-Marxuach received a BA in 1991 from Carnegie Mellon and has an MFA from USC.
In 2006, he left the Lost team,[1] and began working as a co-executive producer for Medium, as well entering the world of comics, with his own Viper Comics title, The Middleman. He also wrote the 2006 Annihilation - Super-Skrull limited series for Marvel Comics, part of the company's Annihilation event,[2] and the Annihilation: Conquest - Wraith limited series for the 2007 Annihilation: Conquest follow-up project.[3] He is also writer of Dynamite Entertainment's four-issue limited series Classic Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocalypse.
In 2008 the ABC Family picked up his television series The Middleman, for which he is the writer and producer. The series was not picked up for second season due to poor ratings.
Works
Filmography
Television work:
- The Middleman (2008) TV Series
- "The Pilot Episode Sanction" (Season 1, Episode 1)
- "The Sino-Mexican Revelation" (Season 1, Episode 3)
- Medium (2005) TV Series
- "Four Dreams Part 1" (Season 3, Episode 1) with Glenn Gordon Caron
- "Four Dreams Part 2" (Season 3, Episode 2) with Glenn Gordon Caron
- "Apocalypse, Push" (Season 3, Episode 11)
- "We Had A Dream" (Season 3, Episode 15)
- "1-900-LUCKY" (Season 3, Episode 18) with Robert Doherty
- "Head Games" (Season 3, Episode 20) with Robert Doherty & Moira Kirkland
- "Burn Baby Burn Part 1" (Season 4, Episode 7)
- "Burn Baby Burn Part 2" (Season 4, Episode 8) with René Echevarria
- Lost (2004) TV Series
- "House of the Rising Sun" (Season 1, Episode 6)
- "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues" (Season 1, Episode 11)
- "Hearts and Minds" (Season 1, Episode 13) with Carlton Cuse
- "...In Translation" (Season 1, Episode 17) with Leonard Dick
- "Born to Run" (Season 1, Episode 22) (story)
- "Orientation" (Season 2, Episode 3) with Craig Wright
- "Collision" (Season 2, Episode 8) with Leonard Dick
- Jake 2.0 (2003) TV Series
- episode "The Good, The Bad and The Geeky"
- episode "Whiskey - Tango - Foxtrot"
- episode "Get Foley"
- Boomtown (2002) TV Series (writer)
- Episode "Monsters Brawl"
- The Dead Zone (2002) TV Series (story) (episode 1.07 "Enemy Mind")
- The Chronicle (2001) TV Series
- episode "Bring Me the Head of Tucker Burns"
- episode "Hot From the Oven"
- episode "The King is (Un) Dead"
- episode "Let Sleeping Dogs Fry"
- episode "Pig Boy's Big Adventure"
- episode "Touched by An Alien")
- Cops On the Edge: Episode 89 (2000)
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) TV Series
- episode 3.07 "Sacrifice"
- Charmed (1998) TV Series
- episode 1.04 "Dead Man Dating"
- episode 1.11 "Feats of Clay"
- episode 1.16 "Which Prue is it, Anyway?"
- episode 1.21 "Love Hurts"
- episode 2.05 "She's a Man, Baby, A Man!"
- episode 2.11 "Reckless Abandon"
- episode 2.17 "How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans"
- Three (1998) TV Series
- episode "Breakout"
- episode "Emerald City"
- Van Helsing Chronicles (1997) (TV)
- Dark Skies (1996) TV Series (teleplay)
- episode "Hostile Convergence"
- The Pretender (1996) TV Series
- episode "The Better Part of Valor"
- episode "The Paper Clock"
- episode "Potato Head Blues"
- SeaQuest DSV (1993) TV Series
- episode 3.4 "Destination Terminal"
- episode 3.7 "Equilibrium"
- episode 3.13 "Weapons of War"
Bibliography
Comics work includes:
- Annihilation: Super-Skrull (with artist Greg Titus, 4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, 2006)
- Annihilation: Conquest - Wraith (with artist Kyle Hotz, 4-issue mini-series, 2007)
- Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocolypse (limited series, Dynamite Entertainment, 2007)
- The Middleman (a number of mini-series, Viper Comics, 2005-present)
See also
Footnotes
- ^ Grillo-Marxuach, Javier (February 22, 2006). "Leaving the island...". http://www.thefuselage.net/Threaded/showthread.php?t=38578. Retrieved 2006-03-22.
- ^ The Fantastic Four-In-One: Javier Grillo-Marxuach talks "Super-Skrull", Comic Book Resources, January 4, 2006
- ^ The Kree With No Name?: Grillo-Marxuach talks "Annihilation: Conquest - Wraith", Comic Book Resources, April 16, 2007
External links
- Javier Grillo-Marxuach at the Internet Movie Database
- Radio Free Javi, personal website of Javier-Grillo Marxuach
- JAVIminions, Official fansite for Javier-Grillo Marxuach
- PopGurls Interview: Javier Grillo-Marxuach
- [1] Zap2it TV News
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