Rodat was born in
Keene, New Hampshire. He attended
Colgate University,
Harvard Business School, and the
University of Southern California.
The Comrades of Summer (1992),
Tall Tale (1995),
Fly Away Home with Vince McKewin (1996), and
The Patriot (2000). and helped with the story of
2013 film
Thor: The Dark World. work that was ultimately rebooted with the exit of the film's then-attached director,
Sam Raimi. In 2009, Rodat created the
TNT science-fiction series
Falling Skies, produced by
Steven Spielberg. The series did not premiere until summer 2011. Its fifth and final season was broadcast in the summer of 2015. The show is about human survivors of a semi-post apocalyptic world due to an alien invasion. In 2022, Rodat created the
Peacock period drama series
Those About to Die. The series premiered on July 18, 2024. ==Filmography==