28 Facts About Shane Salerno

Shane Salerno's writing credits include the films Avatar: The Way of Water, Armageddon, Savages, Shaft, and the TV series Hawaii Five-0.

Sundown won several "Best Documentary of the Year" honors and Shane Salerno was honored in separate ceremonies in both houses of the United States Congress.

Shane Salerno apprenticed during season one of NYPD Blue under Gregory Hoblit, Steven Bochco and David Milch.

At 22, Shane Salerno signed a three-year contract with Universal Television to work on various series beginning with New York Undercover.

Shane Salerno was then hired to do writing during production on the 1997 film Breakdown.

In 1998, working with director John Singleton and writer Richard Price, Shane Salerno wrote the story and screenplay for the 2000 movie Shaft.

In 1997, Shane Salerno sold the rights to the bestseller Zodiac to Disney's Touchstone Pictures in a seven-figure deal.

In 2003, working with director Paul W S Anderson, Salerno adapted the screenplay for Alien vs Predator.

Shane Salerno spent six months writing the shooting script, finished its development, and stayed on for revisions throughout the film's production.

In 2005, Shane Salerno was brought on to adapt Meg, the Steve Alten novel, with Jan de Bont directing.

New Line's original script was written by Alten, but the studio feared it too closely resembled Jurassic Park and they brought in Shane Salerno to do a rewrite.

In 2009, Shane Salerno was reported on being attached License to Steal, a pitch sold for "seven figures upfront" to Paramount Pictures and Kurtzman-Orci Productions, and a remake of Fantastic Voyage with James Cameron.

In 2010, Shane Salerno worked as a writer and consulting producer on the CBS reboot of Hawaii Five-0, which was co-created by Alex Kurtzman, one of the producers of a never produced project of Shane Salerno's.

In 2016, Shane Salerno brokered the seven-figure film rights deal to Don Winslow's Cartel Trilogy, which will be titled The Border.

The trilogy of novels was originally purchased by 20th Century Fox for Shane Salerno to write the script for Ridley Scott to direct.

In 2018, Shane Salerno was instrumental in selling the film rights to former FBI Director James Comey's book A Higher Loyalty.

Shane Salerno spent ten years on his documentary Salinger, a project that he researched, wrote, produced, directed, and financed.

In 2013, Shane Salerno began working as a screenwriter on James Cameron's much-anticipated sequels to Avatar.

Shane Salerno would go on to transform Winslow's book, film, and TV deals and began accruing seven-figure deals for Winslow's work.

The publishing world took notice and soon other prominent authors began calling Shane Salerno to represent them, as well.

In 2012, Shane Salerno was flipping through novels in a bookstore when he came across Steve Hamilton's Edgar Award-winning novel The Lock Artist.

The early days of the company saw Shane Salerno pulling double-duty, splitting his time between his screenwriting career and his literary company.

Shane Salerno would spend all day working with James Cameron and the other writers on the Avatar sequels, then spend all night working on the deals, marketing, and publicity for his author's books.

Shane Salerno had heard of Irish author Adrian McKinty's struggles to sustain his family on his writing advances and, recognizing his immense talent, Shane Salerno called McKinty.

Shane Salerno called back, this time with Don Winslow, and the two convinced McKinty to sign with The Story Factory.

Shane Salerno sold the film rights in another seven-figure deal to Universal, with Edgar Wright slated to begin directing the project later in 2022.

Shane Salerno happened to pick up the letter on the top of his pile of mail and was intrigued by her concept for a novel about a pilot whose family is kidnapped and will be killed unless he crashes the plane.

Shane Salerno signed Newman and eventually sold the publishing rights for seven-figures, then the film rights to Universal in another seven-figure deal.