Shane Salerno

Shane Salerno

1972-11-27 Memphis, Tennessee, USA 16 Credits

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...

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Avatar 4

Avatar 4

2029

Story

Writing

The fourth installment of the Avatar franchise.

Crime 101

2026

Producer

Producing

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

Avatar: Fire and Ash

2025

Story

Writing

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

Avatar: The Way of Water

2022

Story

7.6
Writing

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

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

2019

Executive Producer

6.5
Producing

"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

Salinger

2013

Writer, Director, Producer

6.3
Writing Directing Producing

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

Savages

2012

Screenplay, Executive Producer

6.3
Writing Producing

Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.

Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

2007

Screenplay

5.2
Writing

After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring, a lone Pr...

Shaft

Shaft

2000

Screenplay, Story

6.0
Writing

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

Armageddon

1998

Adaptation

6.8

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

Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421

N/A

Producer

Producing

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

Sundown: The Future of Children and Drugs

N/A

Director

Directing

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

Producing

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

Producing

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

The Chain

N/A

Producer

Producing

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

Producing

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...