Yost graduated from the
University of Michigan in 1995 with a film and video degree and got into advertising in the Detroit area, producing TV commercials. He went on to earn an
MFA in film from
The Peter Stark Producing Program at the
University of Southern California and later interned, in 2002, in
Marvel Comics' west coast office. His spec film scripts got attention from Marvel executives who hired Yost to write episodes of the TV series
X-Men: Evolution. Yost has also written for animated shows such as
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
The Batman and was the story editor and head writer on the
Fantastic Four animated series that aired on
Cartoon Network in 2006 as well as
Iron Man: Armored Adventures. He was the head writer of
Marvel Animation's ''
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes'', which aired on
Disney XD from 2010 to 2012, and has worked on
Lucasfilm's
Star Wars Rebels on
Disney XD. Yost worked in the Marvel Feature Film Writers Program from 2010 to 2012 before embarking on his feature film screenwriting career. He was one of the writers of Marvel's feature film
Thor: The Dark World (2013), and then wrote Mattel's film
Max Steel, before returning to Marvel to work on
Thor: Ragnarok. On June 6, 2017, it was announced that Yost would write an
American live-action adaptation of
Cowboy Bebop for television with Tomorrow Studios, a partnership between
Marty Adelstein and
Sunrise Inc., which also produced the original anime. Additionally, he worked on
The Mandalorian for Lucasfilm and Disney+. In August 2024, Yost and Alan Wan served as
showrunners and executive producers on
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for
Paramount+. In August 2024, it was announced that Universal International Studios, in collaboration with Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door Productions, acquired the rights to adapt
Dungeon Crawler Carl into a television series. Christopher Yost is set to write the series adaptation. Dinniman expressed excitement about the adaptation, while Erica Huggins, President of Fuzzy Door, described the project as aligning with the company's vision for genre-bending storytelling. ==Filmography==