Todd Komarnicki
Career. He authored the play "Beautiful Boy", produced in a theater in Los Angeles in 1993, and that same year wrote a detective novel, "Free". He self-published two more novels, "Famine" (1997) and "War" (2008). His career breakthrough was producing "Elf" (with Jon Berg), the 2003 Christmas movie starring Will Ferrell and directed by Jon Favreau. In the same year, Komarnicki wrote and directed "Resistance", a Dutch/American World War II film starring Bill Paxton and Julia Ormond, based on Anita Shreeve’s novel of the same name. In 2007, he wrote the neo-noir psychological thriller  film "Perfect Stranger", directed by James Foley, and starring Halle Berry and Bruce Willis. Meet Dave. Produced by Guy Walks Into a Bar, Meet Dave (2008) is a bawdy space comedy starring Eddie Murphy and Elizabeth Banks, directed by Brian Robbins and written by Rob Greenberg and Bill Corbett. Sully. Komarnicki received great critical acclaim for writing Sully (2015), starring Tom Hanks and directed by Clint Eastwood. Sully is about Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenburger’s emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River, based on Sullenburger’s 2009 autobiography Highest Duty.  The film debuted at $ 35.5 million in the U.S. its opening weekend, and went on to gross a total of $238 million worldwide, outperforming initial expectations. Sully was selected as an AFI Top Ten film for 2016, and won Best Foreign Film at the 40th Japanese Academy Prize Awards 2017. Mercury 13 (Pre-production). Komarnicki is currently working on 1960s NASA Event Series Mercury 13 (working title) with TV Producer Christina Wayne and Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain. The series will chronicle the story of the 13 daring and determined female American pilots willing to risk it all to achieve their dream of  becoming astronauts. They are known as the Mercury 13. Komarnicki is writing the project and producing via Guy Walks Into a Bar. The Trainer (Pre-production). Written by David Donahue, Todd Komarnicki, and James Villemaire, The Trainer is the story of a premier horse trainer beset by tragedy who bonds over a horse with a girl running from her own horrors.