Jeff Pinkner

Jeff Pinkner is an American television and movie writer and producer.

Early life and education

Born to a Jewish family, Pinkner graduated from Pikesville High School in Baltimore, Maryland in 1983, Northwestern University in 1987, and Harvard Law School in 1990.

Career

He is known for his work on Alias where he served as executive producer. In 2006 and 2007, he worked as an executive producer and writer for the mystery series Lost. The Lost writing staff, including Pinkner, were nominated for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2007 ceremony for their work on the second and third seasons of Lost. In 2010, he has an overall deal with Warner Bros. TV.
Pinkner wrote Columbia Pictures's The Amazing Spider-Man 2 script with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. The film starred Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, and was directed by Marc Webb. It opened in the U.S. May 2014.
He frequently collaborates with a tightly knit group of film professionals which include J. J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Adam Horowitz, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Edward Kitsis, Andre Nemec, Josh Appelbaum, and Bryan Burk.

''Fringe''

In 2008, Pinkner began developing the FOX science fiction series Fringe, along with co-creators Alex Kurtzman, J. J. Abrams and Roberto Orci. Pinkner served as co-showrunner, executive producer, and writer through the show's fourth season. After the conclusion of season four, Pinkner left the series. Episodes he contributed to include:

"The Same Old Story"
"The Arrival"
"In Which We Meet Mr. Jones"
"Bound"
"The Road Not Taken"
"There's More Than One of Everything"
"Night of Desirable Objects"
"August"
"Peter"
"Brown Betty"
"Over There (Part 1)"
"Over There (Part 2)"
"Olivia"
"Entrada"
"The Firefly"
"Subject 13"
"Stowaway"
"Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"
"The Day We Died"
"Neither Here Nor There"
"Subject 9"
"Making Angels"
"Nothing as It Seems"
"Letters of Transit"
"Brave New World (Part 1)"
"Brave New World (Part 2)"

Filmography

Film writerThe Amazing Spider-Man 2 The 5th Wave The Dark Tower Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Venom Jumanji: The Next Level

Untitled Jumanji: The Next Level sequel

Television

Year	Title	Writer	Executive Producer	Notes
1998	Ally McBeal			Episode "Once In A Lifetime"
1998–2000	Profiler			Episodes "The Monster Within", "Inheritance" and "Besieged"
1999	Ally
1999–2000	Early Edition			Episodes "Blowing Up Is Hard to Do", "Fatal Edition, Part 1" and "Blind Faith"; Also story editor
2000	The $treet			Also co-producerEpisodes "Closet Cases" and "Miracle on Wall Street"
2001	The Beast
2001–2006	Alias			Wrote 12 episodes; Also supervising producer and co-executive producer
2006–2007	Lost			Episodes "The Glass Ballerina", "Not in Portland", "The Man from Tallahassee" and "Catch-22"; Also executive consultant
2007–2008	October Road			Consulting producer
2008–2012	Fringe			Wrote 26 episodes
2015–2017	Zoo			Also co-creator; Episodes "First Blood", "Fight or Flight" and "That Great Big Hill of Hope"
2016	Transylvania
2017	Salamander
2017–2019	Knightfall
2018	Everything Sucks!
2018	Origin
2019	Limetown
2020	High Fidelity
2021	Cowboy Bebop
2022–Present	From
2023–Present	Citadel