Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely

Christopher Markus Markus was born on October 16, 1969, He is the son of Budapest, Hungary-born physician Dr. Gabor Markus and registered nurse Rosemary Golebiewski Markus. He has two siblings, sisters Jennifer and Elizabeth. Markus earned a B.A. in creative writing from Rutgers University in 1991. , Markus is married to Claire Saunders. in Walnut Creek, California, He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame in 1991. ==Career==

Collaboration Markus and McFeely met on the graduate program for creative writing at the University of California, Davis in 1994. They were inspired to become novelists. "We couldn't see how we could make [book] writing our full-time day job," McFeely said in 2011, and they turned to screenwriting instead. After earning their master's degrees in 1996, they moved to Los Angeles to pursue that career, working at such jobs as receptionist at movie production companies. After acquiring an agent, they became professional screenwriters in 1998 with an eventually unproduced script about a real-life Los Angeles murder. Interest generated from the purchased script led HBO Films to commission them to write a biographical drama about actor Peter Sellers. For The Life and Death of Peter Sellers in 2004, they won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special. Subsequent work on The Chronicles of Narnia film franchise set them up for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They wrote 2022's The Gray Man starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans and The Electric State starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt. McFeely is also set to co-write the upcoming MCU films Avengers: Doomsday (2026) and Avengers: Secret Wars (2027) with Michael Waldron, while Markus will continue to run AGBO, theirs and the Russo brothers' production company, which is co-producing those films with Marvel Studios. ==Filmography==

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