Skydance Signs Laeta Kalogridis to Overall TV Deal

SANTA MONICA: Skydance Media has entered into an exclusive, multiyear overall deal with writer-producer Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar, Shutter Island, Terminator Genisys) for TV production.

Kalogridis currently serves as writer and executive producer on Skydance Television’s upcoming sci-fi drama series on Netflix, Altered Carbon. She also currently serves as executive producer on Skydance Television’s Sword Art Online, the first-ever live-action SAO TV series.

This marks the third in a series of overall agreements that Skydance has recently put into place, alongside pacts with Marti Noxon and Michael B. Jordan.

Kalogridis’s writing work includes the first X-Men, Tomb Raider, Scream 3, Alexander, Night Watch, Bionic Woman, Pathfinder and Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island. Titles among her producing credits are James Cameron’s Avatar and White House Down.

“Laeta is truly a visionary talent and we are incredibly honored that she has elected to make Skydance her creative home,” said Skydance’s CEO, David Ellison. “Both Altered Carbon and Sword Art Online are epic stories that span massive worlds, and I can think of no greater artist than Laeta to bring these two series to the screen.”

“David and the entire team at Skydance have been so good to me over the last couple of years, giving me a great deal of artistic license and creative freedom to see the vision for my projects come to life, and I am beyond excited to extend this partnership into the future,” added Kalogridis.