David Benullo is a multi-produced writer/director who specializes in genre entertainment whose scripts have appeared on the Hit List. As a director, David's Panic Room-style contained thriller Hostage House premiered on Netflix in July and his latest film, the thriller A Job To Die For, will premiere this spring. Prior to that, David directed the award-winning horror short film, Shadow Man, which was reverse engineered from his feature script and has played at film festivals worldwide. David has sold original scripts, pitches and done rewrite assignments for nearly every major Hollywood studio. His writing credits include Disney's Around the World in 80 Days, starring action icon Jackie Chan, 12 Rounds: Reloaded for the WWE, and the supernatural thriller Hallowed Ground, starring Jaime Alexander and Chloe Grace Moretz, which he also directed. David sold the high-concept summer tentpole project Atlantis on a pitch to Broad Green Pictures. His Hit List screenplay Decoy is in pre-production through Myriad Films, with production commencing in Q3 2022. Internationally, David wrote two giant Bollywood blockbusters: the sci-fi/superhero action movies RA.One starring Shah Rukh Khan, and Krrish 3 - the third film in the popular Indian franchise. In television, David developed the series Kindred with Legendary Digital and has written for The Dead Zone, the series adaptation of the Stephen King novel, as well as the animated series The Zeta Project for the KidsWB! and The Head for MTV among others. David also teaches film and TV writing at a film school in Los Angeles. Raised outside of Boston, David drew comic books before getting his hands on his family's movie camera and making films in the nearby woods with his friends. After writing his first feature-length spec script at age 14, David headed to USC, then to NYU to finish his studies, where his senior thesis was an original superhero movie long before they were considered "viable" in Hollywood. Read less