David Benullo is a multifaceted writer/director, renowned for his expertise in genre entertainment, whose scripts have consistently appeared on the prestigious Hit List.
As a director, Benullo has made a significant impact with his contained thriller Hostage House, which premiered on Netflix in July, and his latest film, the thriller A Job To Die For, slated to premiere this spring. Prior to that, he directed the award-winning horror short film, Shadow Man, which was reverse engineered from his feature script and has played at film festivals worldwide.
Benullo has an impressive track record of selling original scripts, pitches, and completing rewrite assignments for nearly every major Hollywood studio. His writing credits include Disney's Around the World in 80 Days, starring action icon Jackie Chan, 12 Rounds: Reloaded for the WWE, and the supernatural thriller Hallowed Ground, starring Jaime Alexander and Chloe Grace Moretz, which he also directed.
He has also sold the high-concept summer tentpole project Atlantis on a pitch to Broad Green Pictures and his Hit List screenplay Decoy is in pre-production through Myriad Films, with production commencing in Q3 2022.
Internationally, Benullo has written two giant Bollywood blockbusters: the sci-fi/superhero action movies RA.One starring Shah Rukh Khan, and Krrish 3 - the third film in the popular Indian franchise.
In television, Benullo has developed the series Kindred with Legendary Digital and has written for The Dead Zone, the series adaptation of the Stephen King novel, as well as the animated series The Zeta Project for the KidsWB! and The Head for MTV among others.
In addition to his professional accomplishments, Benullo also teaches film and TV writing at a film school in Los Angeles.
Raised outside of Boston, Benullo drew comic books before getting his hands on his family's movie camera and making films in the nearby woods with his friends. After writing his first feature-length spec script at age 14, Benullo headed to USC, then to NYU to finish his studies, where his senior thesis was an original superhero movie long before they were considered "viable" in Hollywood.
