Zak PennFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

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The Avengers

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Don Cheadle

Synopsis: Marvel Studios delivers the ultimate comic team-up with this action-oriented production that ties their Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, and Thor franchises together for a shared big-screen adventure. Jon Favreau executive produces the Paramount feature, with Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle Read More

5/4/12
The Incredible Hulk

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson

Synopsis: Mild-mannered scientist Bruce Banner has been traveling the globe in search of the antidote that will allow him to break free from his primal alter ego, but both the warmongers who long to exploit him for their own gain and a horrific creature known as The Abomination are determined to stop him Read More

6/13/08
The Grand

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines, David Cross, Dennis Farina, Richard Kind

Synopsis: Incident at Loch Ness director Zak Penn takes the helm for this mockumentary that finds film and television star Woody Harrelson entering the Grand Championship of Poker in hopes of saving his late grandfather's popular hotel casino from a scheming real estate developer. As the wrecking ball Read More

3/21/08
Comic Books Unbound

Actors: Guillermo del Toro, Stan Lee, Zak Penn, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair

Synopsis: Comic books have long been a key source of inspiration in Hollywood, and in this documentary from Starz Inside, the folks behind some of the most popular comic-to-screen translations ever produced explain how the stories that have held children captivated for decades successfully made the Read More

2008
X-Men: The Last Stand

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin

Synopsis: The explosive X-Men motion picture trilogy officially draws to a close with this release that finds Rush Hour director Brett Ratner stepping in for Bryan Singer to tell the tale of a newly discovered mutant "cure," and the polarizing effect it has on mutant/man relations. With the pressure on Read More

5/24/06
Elektra

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Will Yun Lee, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: Daredevil's main squeeze gets resurrected in her own flick with this spin-off martial arts actioner from director Rob Bowman (Reign of Fire, The X-Files: Fight the Future). Jennifer Garner returns to the role of Elektra Natchios, a hired assassin whose origins are finally revealed after her old Read More

1/14/05
Incident at Loch Ness

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Werner Herzog, Kitana Baker, Gabriel Beristain, Russell Williams, David Davidson

Synopsis: A handful of filmmakers looking for the fabled sea serpent of Loch Ness get a look at another sort of monster in this witty mock documentary. Under commission from producer and screenwriter Zak Penn, notoriously eccentric German filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Scotland to shoot his latest film Read More

9/17/04
Suspect Zero

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Carrie-Anne Moss, Harry J. Lennix

Synopsis: Directed by E. Elias Merhige, Suspect Zero follows the disgraced FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway (Aaron Eckhart), who was transferred to a desolate area in Albuquerque, New Mexico as punishment for botching a procedure which ultimately led to the release of one of the most notorious criminals on the Read More

8/27/04
X2: X-Men United

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry

Synopsis: When a failed assassination attempt occurs on the President's (Cotter Smith) life by the teleporting mutant Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), it's Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and his School for Gifted Youngsters who are targeted for the crime. While Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) and Storm (Halle Berry Read More

5/2/03
Osmosis Jones

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bill Murray, Molly Shannon, Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, the impish impresarios of gross-out comedy, take their body function-inspired humor to new extremes in this mixture of live action and animation. Bill Murray stars as Frank, a zoo worker suffering from the effects of an unknown malady he contracted after eating Read More

8/10/01
Behind Enemy Lines

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gene Hackman, Owen Wilson, Gabriel Macht, Charles Malik Whitfield, Joaquim de Almeida

Synopsis: A television commercial for a Sega game system that aired during the 1999 MTV Music Video Awards landed debut director John Moore a gig behind the camera of this military action thriller. Owen Wilson stars as Lt. Chris Burnett, a naval aviator aboard the U.S.S. Carl Vinson who's frustrated with Read More

2001
Inspector Gadget

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Andy Dick

Synopsis: Matthew Broderick stars in this live-action adaptation of the popular animated series. When a well-meaning but overly trusting security guard is wounded in an explosion created by the evil Dr. Claw, a beautiful scientist named Brenda (Joely Fisher) takes him under her wing and turns him into a Read More

7/30/99
Antz

Crew: Consultant/advisor

Actors: Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone, Gene Hackman, Christopher Walken

Synopsis: DreamWorks and Pacific Data Images collaborated on this all computer-animated comedy-adventure about the ant angst of misfit worker ant, Z (voice of Woody Allen), who feels trapped by the conformist confines of his totalitarian ant civilization and eventually sets forth in search of Insectopia. Read More

10/2/98
PCU

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jeremy Piven, Chris Young, Jon Favreau, David Spade, Sarah Trigger

Synopsis: Is it possible to be politically correct and unified? Find out in this satire set on a fictional eastern university. Port Chester University espouses pc thinking. From the Womynists to the Republicans, everyone there is involved in a cause; many of them are militant. So involved are they, that Read More

1994
Last Action Hero

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O'Brien, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Frank McRae, Anthony Quinn, Charles Dance, Mercedes Ruehl

Synopsis: Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as a pumped-up Shakespearian hero while an announcer bellows, "Something is rotten in Denmark -- and Hamlet is taking out the trash!" This gag sets the stage for the post-modernist action epic The Last Action Hero. The film concerns Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien), a Read More

1993