Chuck Mondry

Charles Mondry is an American screenwriter. He is best known for co-writing the reboot of MGM's Road House, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Doug Liman. And Play Dirty, an adaptation of Donald Westlake's Parker series about a professional thief, starring Mark Wahlberg and LaKeith Standfield, directed by Shane Black for Amazon. The screenplay was co-written with Black and Anthony Bagarozzi.

Career

Mondry became a professional writer when he broke into the entertainment industry with a million dollar spec sale. The screenplay, entitled "Tick Tock" starred Jennifer Lopez and Samuel Jackson but was cancelled following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He is currently co-owner of Modern Pictures, with Anthony Bagarozzi and Randi Nguyen, which produces independently financed features.
Mondry has several projects in development. Sony Pictures, Doc Savage, a live-action movie adaptation to be directed by Shane Black and starring Dwayne Johnson, based on the pulp serial novels of the 1930s; Jekyll, a modern-day reimagining of the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, based on Steven Moffat's BBC mini-series and produced by Jeff Kleeman and Ellen DeGeneres for Summit Entertainment. The Cold Warrior, a project Netflix acquired from Universal Pictures in late 2017, which tells the story of a retired Cold War spy who teams up with a younger agent to stop a terrorist threat orchestrated by Russia.