Max Borenstein is an American film writer and director.

Career

Borenstein wrote, edited, and directed the 2003 film Swordswallowers and Thin Men while a senior at Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

. The film starred Peter Cellini, Zoe Kazan

Zoe Kazan

-Early life and education:Kazan was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord, and the granddaughter of film and theatre director Elia Kazan...

, Fran Kranz

Fran Kranz

Francis Elliott Kranz is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Topher Brink in Joss Whedon's science fiction drama television series Dollhouse.-Early life:...

 and Graham Norris, and featured Army Wives

Army Wives

Army Wives is an American drama series that follows the lives of four army wives, their families, and an army husband whose wife is in the army. The series, shot at ABC Studios, premiered on Lifetime on June 3, 2007...

star Sally Pressman

Sally Pressman

-Career:As a child, she attended Spence School for girls in New York. She was classically trained in ballet and was a member of the Manhattan Ballet Company. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater studies from Yale University, where she also participated in such productions as The...

 and Midnight's Children (film) lead Satya Bhabha. The film won Best Feature and Best Screenplay at the New York Independent Film Festival and was named Best First Feature 2003 by Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

 critic Kevin Thomas

Kevin Thomas

Marvin Kevin Thomas is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League. He was a standout high school football player at Rio Mesa High School in Oxnard, California and a college football player at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada...

.

Borenstein's 2008 screenplay What Is Life Worth?, based on Kenneth Feinberg

Kenneth Feinberg

Kenneth Feinberg is an American attorney, specializing in mediation and alternative dispute resolution. Feinberg was appointed Special Master of the U.S...

's memoir of the same name, was honored with inclusion on The Black List (survey)

The Black List (survey)

The Black List is a survey published every year on the second Friday of December since 2004. The survey includes the top screenplays that went un-produced. The website claims that it is not necessarily "the best", but rather "the most liked", since it is voted on by studio and production company...

, an annual list compiled by Hollywood executives of their favorite unproduced screenplays. His 2009 screenplay Jimi, commisioned by Legendary Pictures

Legendary Pictures

Legendary Pictures is an American film production company, whose parent company, Legendary Entertainment, is based in Burbank, California and was founded by Thomas Tull in 2004...

 and based on the life of guitarist Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...

, was also included on The Black List (survey)

The Black List (survey)

The Black List is a survey published every year on the second Friday of December since 2004. The survey includes the top screenplays that went un-produced. The website claims that it is not necessarily "the best", but rather "the most liked", since it is voted on by studio and production company...

.

Borenstein's script for Legendary Pictures

Legendary Pictures

Legendary Pictures is an American film production company, whose parent company, Legendary Entertainment, is based in Burbank, California and was founded by Thomas Tull in 2004...

' The Seventh Son, adapted from Joseph Delaney

Joseph Delaney

Joseph Henry Delaney is a British former educator and currently an author of science fiction and fantasy books.-Life and career:On first leaving school, Delaney started work as an apprentice engineer. Upon the completion of his schooling, he went on to become an English instructor, with his initial...

's young adult novel The Spook's Apprentice

The Spook's Apprentice

The Spook's Apprentice , written by Joseph Delaney, is the first story in the series "The Wardstone Chronicles" The plot is centred around a 13 year old farm boy named Tom who lives in the countryside of The County, loosely based on the English county of Lancashire, where the author resides with...

, is presently in pre-production. The film, set to star Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges

Jeffrey Leon "Jeff" Bridges is an American actor and musician. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis "Bad" Blake in the 2009 film Crazy Heart....

, Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore is an American actress and a children's book author. Throughout her career, she has been nominated for four Oscars, six Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards....

 and Ben Barnes

Ben Barnes

Benny Frank Barnes, known as Ben Barnes , is an American real estate magnate, politician and lobbyist, who was once the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and the 36th Lieutenant Governor of Texas from January 21, 1969 to January 16, 1973 for two two-year terms...

, will be directed by Sergei Bodrov

Sergei Bodrov

Sergei Vladimirovich Bodrov is a two-time Academy Award-nominated Russian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer.Bodrov was born in Khabarovsk, Russian SFSR, USSR . In the post-Soviet period he emigrated to the United States. His son, actor Sergei Bodrov, Jr...

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Borenstein is currently attached to write the screenplay for Legendary's upcoming Godzilla reboot after his script for The Seventh Son impressed Legendary executives. Godzilla was previously written by David Callaham

David Callaham

David Callaham is an American film writer.-Personal life:Callaham was born in Fresno, California on October 24, 1977. He is married to Bree Tichy. They were married in 2009.-Criticism:...

 and David S. Goyer

David S. Goyer

David Samuel Goyer is an American screenwriter, film director and comic book writer.-Early life:Goyer was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He attended Hebrew school and has described himself as "half Jewish"...

. Borenstein is the third writer to draft Godzilla.

Filmography

• Swordswallowers and Thin Men (2003) also director/editor
• The Seventh Son (2013)
• Godzilla (TBA)