Bryan Burk

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Bryan Burk (born December 30, 1968) is an American film and television producer.

Bryan Burk
Burk in 2021
Born	(1968-12-30) December 30, 1968 (age 56)
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Film producer, television producer, actor
Years active	1994–present

He is mostly known for producing movies in collaboration with J. J. Abrams, including the Star Trek reboot series, the Mission: Impossible films Ghost Protocol and Rogue Nation, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and the TV series Alias, Lost, Fringe, and Person of Interest. His only work outside of producing was co-writing the Fringe episode "There's More Than One of Everything".

Career

Born to a Jewish family,^[1] Burk is a graduate of USC's School of Cinema-Television in 1991.^[2] He began his career working with producers Brad Weston at Columbia Pictures, Ned Tanen at Sony Pictures and John Davis at FOX. In 1995, he joined Gerber Pictures, where he developed TNT's Emmy-winning James Dean.^[3]

Together with J. J. Abrams, he founded the production company Bad Robot Productions in 2001.^[4] As Executive Vice President of the company, Burk serves as executive producer for all of their television and film productions.

In 2009, Burk co-wrote the story of the season one finale of Fringe, "There's More Than One of Everything", with Akiva Goldsman, while Jeff Pinkner and J. H. Wyman wrote the teleplay.

He frequently collaborates with a tightly knit group of film professionals which include J. J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Adam Horowitz, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Edward Kitsis, Andre Nemec, Josh Appelbaum, and Jeff Pinkner.^[1]

Filmography

Feature films

Producer

• Cloverfield (2008)
• Morning Glory (2010)
• Super 8 (2011)
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
• Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
• 10 Cloverfield Lane^[5][6] (2016)
• Star Trek Beyond (2016)

Executive producer

• Star Trek (2009)
• Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)

Television

Executive producer

Year	Title	Notes
2004–2010	Lost
2005	The Catch	Pilot
2006–2007	What About Brian
	Six Degrees
2008–2013	Fringe	Also writer (Episode "There's More Than One of Everything")
2009	Anatomy of Hope	Pilot
2010	Undercovers
2011–2016	Person of Interest
2012	Alcatraz
	Shelter	Pilot[7]
2012–2014	Revolution
2013–2014	Almost Human
2014	Believe
2015	Dead People	Pilot[8]
2016	11.22.63	[9]
	Roadies	[10]
2016–2022	Westworld	[11]

Co-producer

• Alias (2001–2006)