Mark L. Smith

American screenwriter, producer, and director born and raised in Colorado, where he grew up on his family's two-thousand-acre dude ranch adjacent to national forest. Wrote The Revenant (2015), Overlord, The Midnight Sky, Twisters, and the 2025 miniseries American Primeval and Untamed. His writing carries a recurring interest in wilderness, isolation, and nature as antagonist.