Paul Wernick
Known for

Writing

Credits

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Gender

Man

Birthday

Place of birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Also known as
Пол Верник
Paul D Wernick
Пол Вернік
The Real Heroes Here

Paul Wernick

Biography

Paul Wernick is a Canadian screenwriter and producer. He is best known for writing the screenplays for Zombieland (2009), Deadpool (2016), Deadpool 2 (2018), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) with his creative partner Rhett Reese. Wernick has produced several network reality shows, including CBS's Big Brother 2 and ABC's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. Wernick won three Emmy Awards for his work in news, which included producing stints at KVOA, KOLD, KTVK, KSL, and KCAL. Big Brother 2 inspired Wernick and Rhett Reese, a screenwriter friend of his brother back from Phoenix, Arizona, where both attended high school, to create their own take on reality television, The Joe Schmo Show. Broadcast on Spike TV, the series earned the highest ratings for the channel. The Joe Schmo Show was also named on numerous Best Of lists, including Time magazine's "Top 10 TV Shows of 2003" and Entertainment Weekly's "50 Best TV Shows Ever on DVD." In 2004, Reese and Wernick created and executive-produced Stuck on ODB, a comedy reality show starring Ol' Dirty Bastard (ODB) of the Wu Tang Clan for Spike TV. However, ODB died before the show ever aired. A year later, Wernick and Reese followed up with Invasion Iowa, a high-concept, high-stakes comedy hybrid starring William Shatner. The show premiered on Spike on March 29, 2005. Wernick and Reese's first feature collaboration was the 2009 film Zombieland, which they created and also executive-produced. The film was released by Sony Pictures on October 2, 2009, and became the highest-grossing zombie film at the time. Wernick and Reese followed Zombieland with Paramount Pictures' G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), starring Dwayne Johnson, Channing Tatum, and Bruce Willis. The sequel outperformed the original, grossing $375 million. In February 2012, it was announced Universal Studios had acquired Wernick and Reese's script for a feature film adaptation of Cowboy Ninja Viking. In September 2012, their original science fiction spec screenplay Epsilon was sold to Sony Pictures, with plans to co-produce with Michael De Luca. In April 2015, Wernick and Reese had optioned Thomas Oliver's book The Real Coke, The Real Story to produce a film about the failed launch of New Coke. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Wernick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for
Acting roles
YearMovie / TV show / OtherRole
2018Deadpool 2News Cameraman
2018Once Upon a DeadpoolNews Cameraman
2016Geeking OutSelf
Credits
YearMovie / TV show / OtherRole
Eenie MeanieProducer
Balls UpScreenplay
Balls UpProducer
Untitled 'The Gray Man' Spin-OffScreenplay
ClueScreenplay
2024Deadpool & WolverineWriter
2024Deadpool & WolverineExecutive Producer
2023GhostedWriter
2023GhostedProducer
2023The Continental: From the World of John WickExecutive Producer
2023Twisted MetalExecutive Producer
2023Twisted MetalStory
2023Twisted MetalCreator
2022SpiderheadScreenplay
2022SpiderheadProducer
2019Zombieland: Double TapScreenplay
2019Zombieland: Double TapExecutive Producer
2019Zombieland: Double TapCharacters
20196 UndergroundWriter
20196 UndergroundExecutive Producer
2018Deadpool 2Writer
2018Deadpool 2Executive Producer
2018Once Upon a DeadpoolWriter
2018Once Upon a DeadpoolExecutive Producer
2017LifeWriter
2017Deadpool: No Good DeedWriter
2016DeadpoolWriter
2016DeadpoolExecutive Producer
2013G.I. Joe: RetaliationWriter
2013ZombielandWriter
2013ZombielandExecutive Producer
2013ZombielandCreator
2009ZombielandWriter
2009ZombielandExecutive Producer
2005Invasion IowaExecutive Producer
2005Invasion IowaCreator
2003The Joe Schmo ShowExecutive Producer