fellow former WGA board member Ted Elliott, Mazin ran a website called The Artful Writer, which focused on issues relevant to working screenwriters. It closed in 2011, after seven years. In 2011, Mazin and fellow screenwriter John August began Scriptnotes, a weekly podcast on the craft of screenwriting and the film industry. In July 2017, HBO and Sky Television announced Chernobyl, a five-part miniseries from Mazin about the infamous nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. The series was filmed in Lithuania and Ukraine. Mazin said that the "lesson of Chernobyl isn’t that modern nuclear power is dangerous. The lesson is that lying, arrogance, and suppression of criticism are dangerous." In an interview with Decider, Mazin said: "If I came to HBO and said ‘I want to do another season of Chernobyl, except it’s gonna be about another terrible tragedy,’ whether it's Bhopal or Fukushima or something like that, I would imagine they at least would give me polite interest." In October of 2019 Disney hired Craig Mazin for writing the screenplay of Pirates of the Caribbean 6 with Ted Elliott that now is currently in development. Mazin was named as the current scriptwriter for the Lionsgate film adaption of the Borderlands video game series in February 2020, as well as co-writer and co-executive producer for a television series adaption of the video game The Last of Us for HBO in March 2020. The Last of Us adaptation was greenlit by HBO in November 2020. More recently, Mazin signed an overall deal with HBO. Filmography Film Executive producer School for Scoundrels (2006) Special thanks The Words (2012) Free Birds (2013) Don't Think Twice (2016) Television Acting credits References External links 1971 births 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers American male screenwriters American podcasters Freehold High School alumni Princeton University alumni Jewish American screenwriters Living people People from Marlboro Township, New Jersey People from Staten Island Primetime Emmy Award winners Screenwriters from New York (state) Screenwriters from New Jersey Writers from Brooklyn 20th-century American writers Showrunners 21st-century American Jews American Ashkenazi Jews