Greg Berlanti

Greg Berlanti (birthname: Gregory G. Berlanti) is one of American TV’s most successful series creators, but has also worked in the movies as a director, writer, and producer, starting with his work as director-writer of the romantic gay comedy, The Broken Hearts Club (2000), with Zach Braff, Dean Cain, Matt McGrath, Timothy Olyphant, Billy Porter, Justin Theroux, John Mahoney, and Nia Long, and which premiered at the Sundance film festival before a Sony Pictures Classics release.

Berlanti was director of the comedy-drama, Life As We Know It (2010), co-starring Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, and Josh Lucas, and scoring a box-office hit for Warner Bros. with a $105.7 million return. Berlanti co-wrote the screenplay and story and produced (with Donald De Line and Geoff Johns) the disappointing DC Comics movie, Green Lantern (2011), directed by Katherine Heigl, and starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Tim Robbins, and Angela Bassett.

Berlanti continued in the action-fantasy mode as story writer (with David Leslie Johnson and Dan Mazeau) of Warner Bros.’ Wrath of the Titans (2012), the sequel to Clash of the Titans (2010), with Sam Worthington, Rosamund Pike, Bill Nighy, Edgar Ramirez, Danny Huston, Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson, under Jonathan Liebesman’s direction.

Greg Berlanti returned to the feature director’s chair with the successful teenage rom-com, Love, Simon (2018), with Nick Robinson, Josh Duhamel, and Jennifer Garner, grossing over $66 million for 20^th Century Fox. Berlanti was director of the NASA Space Race comedy-drama surrounding the Apollo 11 moon landing, Fly Me to the Moon (2024), starring Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Ray Romano, and Woody Harrelson, and released in a wide pattern by Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Releasing.

Berlanti has also served as producer on the Joe Wright-directed Peter Pan movie, Pan (2015), starring Hugh Jackman; and on Free Guy (2021), starring Ryan Reynolds and directed by Shawn Levy.