Biography
Shane Salerno is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He has written or co-written several blockbuster films including Armageddon and Shaft and is also one of the writer-producers of the successful CBS drama series Hawaii Five-0. He is the director of the forthcoming documentary Salinger, screenwriter of Fantastic Voyage produced by James Cameron and co-screenwriter and executive producer of Savages, directed by Oliver Stone. Detour Magazine voted him one of "Hollywood's true shaper...
Complete Filmography
Avatar 4
2029
Story
The fourth installment of the Avatar franchise.
Crime 101
2026
Producer
A series of high level jewelry thefts up and down the Pacific Coast Highway have gone unsolved for years, primarily because the perpetrator has lived ...
Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025
Story
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash Peop...
Avatar: The Way of Water
2022
Story
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follo...
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
Executive Producer
"Alan Pakula: Going for Truth" encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a lauded filmmaker and extremely private man, who was...
Salinger
2013
Writer, Director, Producer
An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), who lived most of his life behind the impenetrable...
Savages
2012
Screenplay, Executive Producer
Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
2007
Screenplay
After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring, a lone Pr...
Shaft
2000
Screenplay, Story
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail...
Armageddon
1998
Adaptation
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate ...
Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421
N/A
Producer
A plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean six minutes after takeoff, and is flooded after an explosion during evacuation. A dozen survivors sink in a seale...
Sundown: The Future of Children and Drugs
N/A
Director
This multi award winning documentary, made when Shane Salerno was still in high school, was featured on every major talk show including "Larry King Li...
City on Fire
N/A
Producer
A modern-day Helen of Troy event tears the two criminal empires — one Irish, the other Italian — that control all of New England apart and starts a br...
The Winter of Frankie Machine
N/A
Producer
Frank Machianno, aka Frankie Machine, is pulled back into a criminal life he already retired from when he finds himself caught in a double-cross betwe...
The Chain
N/A
Producer
On a morning like any other, Rachel drops her daughter Kylie at the bus stop and continues with her day. But a phone call from an unknown number chang...
Eruption
N/A
Producer
A history-making eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the U.S. military is far more terrifying than...