Marc Guggenheim

Marc Guggenheim (born September 24, 1970)^[1] is an American screenwriter, television producer, comic book writer, and novelist. He is best known as the creator of the television series Eli Stone (2008–2009), Arrow (2012–2020), and Legends of Tomorrow (2016–2022), executive producer of the animated series Tales of Arcadia (2016–2021), as well as the writer of the feature films Green Lantern (2011) and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013).

Marc Guggenheim
Guggenheim at the 2017 WonderCon.
Born	(1970-09-24) September 24, 1970 (age 55) Long Island, New York, U.S.
Occupations	Television producer and comic book writer
Notable work	Arrow Legends of Tomorrow Eli Stone Green Lantern
Spouse	Tara Butters
Family	Eric Guggenheim David Guggenheim

Early life

Marc Guggenheim was born and raised to a Jewish family^[2][3] on Long Island, New York.^[4] He attended the University at Albany, State University of New York. His brothers are screenwriters Eric Guggenheim and David Guggenheim.^[5]

Career

Guggenheim worked in Boston, Massachusetts as a lawyer at Hutchins Wheeler & Dittmar, and part-time writer for five years.

Television

After a romantic comedy script led to a few meetings with producers, he moved to California to pursue a career as a screenwriter. A script for The Practice was his first produced work. He eventually served as a producer for Law & Order, Jack and Bobby, CSI: Miami, and In Justice.

With Greg Berlanti, Guggenheim is the co-creator of the ABC show Eli Stone. He later became executive producer of ABC's No Ordinary Family. Guggenheim, together with Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg, adapted the Green Arrow comics into the television series Arrow. The three, alongside Phil Klemmer, went on to develop the spin-off series Legends of Tomorrow. Guggenheim served as co-showrunner on Arrow for seasons 1-6 and 8, and on Legends of Tomorrow for seasons 1-4. In the fall of 2018, he stepped down as showrunner and serve as an executive consultant to both shows.^[6] He remained in this role until the shows ended.

With Guillermo del Toro, he co-wrote the pilot and several episodes of the award-winning animated series Tales of Arcadia, an original franchise created for Netflix from DreamWorks Animation, for which he won an Emmy in the category of "Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program" and nominated for several others. He remained as Executive Producer throughout the series' three installments, Trollhunters, 3Below and Wizards: Tales of Arcadia.

In October 2020, it was announced that Guggenheim would be writing a series based on Green Lantern alongside Seth Grahame-Smith, who is showrunning the series, for HBO Max in 2021.^[7] However, in October 2022, when Grahame-Smith departed from the series Guggenheim confirmed he would also no longer be involved.^[8]

Comic books

He served as an intern at Marvel for a time in 1990 for editor Terry Kavanagh, and was the colorist for an eight-page Iceman/Human Torch story while there. His writing experiences also include the comic books Aquaman for DC Comics, Wolverine and The Punisher for Marvel, and Perfect Dark Zero for Rare Game. He wrote Blade for twelve issues with artist Howard Chaykin.

In 2006, Guggenheim took over the writing of The Flash.^[9] Guggenheim's run concluded with the death of the fourth Flash, Bart Allen.

In 2007, Guggenheim became one of the rotating team of writers on The Amazing Spider-Man. His first story appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #549. He also launched a creator-owned comic, Resurrection, for Oni Press.

He wrote the comic book Young X-Men for Marvel which was launched in April 2008, and in 2008 was working on a comic with Hugh Jackman and Virgin Comics, Nowhere Man,^[10] and on Super Zombies for Dynamite Entertainment^[11] and Stephen King.^[12]

He wrote the script for the 2009 video game X-Men Origins: Wolverine, developed by Raven Software, a video game based on the film of the same name.

Guggenheim was intended to take over Action Comics after the War of the Supermen limited series,^[13] but was replaced by Paul Cornell. Guggenheim instead worked on Justice Society of America.^[14][15]

Personal life

Guggenheim is married to fellow writer-producer and showrunner Tara Butters,^[16] who has previously worked on projects including Marvel's Agent Carter, ABC's Resurrection and Dollhouse.^[17]

During the 2023 writers strike Guggenheim sided with the WGA and went on strike.^[18][19]

Filmography

Marc Guggenheim television work

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
		Writer	Producer	Executive producer
2001	The Practice	Yes			Writer (1 episode), staff writer
2003	Dragnet				Writer (1 episode)
2001–2004	Law & Order		Yes		Writer (8 episodes), executive story editor; co-producer, producer
2004–2005	Jack & Bobby				Writer (4 episodes); supervising producer
2005	CSI: Miami				Writer (3 episodes); supervising producer
2006	In Justice				Writer (1 episode); supervising producer
2006–2007	Brothers & Sisters				Writer (2 episodes); consulting producer
2008–2009	Eli Stone			Yes	Co-creator; writer (5 episodes)
2009–2010	FlashForward				Writer (4 episodes)
2010–2011	No Ordinary Family		Yes		Writer (3 episodes); consulting producer
2012–2020	Arrow			Yes	Co-developer; writer (28 episodes); consulting producer (30 episodes)
2015–2016	Vixen				Co-developer; writer (1 episode)
2016–2020[20]	Legends of Tomorrow		Yes		Co-developer; writer; consulting producer
2016–2018	Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia[21]				Executive producer; writer
2018–2019	3Below: Tales of Arcadia				Executive producer; writer (2 episodes)
2019	Carnival Row				Executive producer; writer (1 episode)
	Supergirl				Executive producer; writer
2020	Wizards: Tales of Arcadia				Executive producer; writer (2 episodes)

Marc Guggenheim film work

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
2011	Green Lantern	Screen story by, screenplay by	With Greg Berlanti & Michael Green and Michael Goldberg
2013	Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters	Screenplay by	"Based on" the novel by Rick Riordan
2021	Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans	Written by	With Guillermo del Toro and The Hageman Brothers "Based on" Tales of Arcadia by del Toro & Daniel Kraus

Marc Guggenheim video game work

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
2005	Perfect Dark Zero	Writer	With Dale Murchie
2006	Call of Duty 3		With Richard Farrelly and Adam Gascoine
2009	Join the Mosaic
	X-Men Origins: Wolverine		Based on the film directed by Gavin Hood
2010	Singularity	Written by	With Lindsey Allen and Emily Silver

Bibliography

Novels

• Overwatch (2014)
• Arrow: Fatal Legacies (2018) co-authored with James R. Tuck^[22]
• In Any Lifetime: A Novel (2024)

Comics

DC Comics

• Batman Confidential #50–54 (2011)
• Green Lantern:
  • Green Lantern: The Movie Prequels (tpb, 128 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3313-9) includes:
    • Green Lantern Movie Prequel: Tomar-Re (one-shot, 2011)
  • Green Lantern #13-14 (2024)
• Arrow Special Edition #1 (2012)
• Arrow #1–12 (2012–2013)
• Adventures of Superman vol. 2 #8 (2013)
• Legends of the Dark Knight 100-Page Super Spectacular #4 (2014)
• Arrow: Season 2.5 #1–12 (2014–2015)
• The Flash:
  • Flash: Season Zero #5 (plot) (2015)
  • The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #9-13 (2007)
• Love is Love OGN (Batman) (2016)
• Crisis on Infinite Earths Giant #1–2 (with Marv Wolfman) (2019–2020)
• Titans Giant #1 (2020)
• Batman: Gotham Nights #11, 18, 20 (digital) (2020)
• Aquaman #30-31 (2005)
• Justice League: Dark Tomorrow Special (2025)
• Justice Society of America #44-54 (2010–2011)

Dynamite Entertainment

• Galactica 1980 #1—4 (September 2009 – January 2010)
• Nowhere Man #1—4 (2012)

Marvel Comics

• Punisher: The Trial of the Punisher #1–2 (2013)
• Daredevil vol. 4 #15.1 (2015)
• All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One #1 (S.H.I.E.L.D.) (2015)
• Squadron Supreme:
  • Squadron Sinister #1–4 (2015)
    • collected in: Squadron Sinister (tpb, 141 pages, 2015)
  • Squadron Supreme: Hyperion vs. Nighthawk #1-4
• The Accused #1 (2016)
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1–10 (2016)
• X-Men:
  • X-Men vol 4 #18–22 (2014)
    • collected in: X-Men Volume 4: Exogenous (tpb, 112 pages, 2015)
  • X-Tinction Agenda #1–4 (2015)
    • collected in X-Tinction Agenda: Warzones! (tpb, 112 pages, 2016)
  • X-Men Prime #1 (2017)
  • X-Men Gold #1–36, Annual #1 (2017–2018)
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past – Doomsday #1-4 (2023)
  • X-Men: The Wedding Special (2018)
  • Young X-Men #1-12 (2008–2009)
• Star Wars:
  • Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Special #1 (2019)
  • Star Wars: Age of Republic Special #1 (2019)
  • Star Wars: Dark Droids – D-Squad #1-4 (2023)
  • Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca #1-10 (2022-2023)
  • Star Wars: Return of the Jedi – Jabba's Palace (2023)
  • Star Wars: Yoda #7-9 (2023)
  • Star Wars: Jedi Knights (2025-present)
• Beware the Planet of the Apes (2024)
• Spider-Man:
  • The Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Jackpot #1-3 (2010)
  • The Amazing Spider-Man: EXTRA! #1, 3 (2008–2009)
  • The Amazing Spider-Man #546-555, 557-582, 584-600, 602-606, 608-610, 647, Annual #35-36
  • Spider-Man & Wolverine
• Blade #1-12 (2006–2007)
• Bring on the Bad Guys: Doom (2025)
• Bring on the Bad Guys: Abomination (2025)
• Bring on the Bad Guys: Dormammu (2025)
• Bring on the Bad Guys: Green Goblin (2025)
• Bring on the Bad Guys: Loki (2025)
• Bring on the Bad Guys: Mephisto (2025)
• Bring on the Bad Guys: Red Skull (2025)
• Civil War II: The Accused (2016)
• Civil War: Choosing Sides (2006)
• Deadpool: Seven Slaughters (2023)
• Iron Man vs. Whiplash #1-4 (2009–2010)
• Marvel Comics #1001 (2019)
• Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood #1 (2022)
• Wolverine #42-48, 57-61

Oni Press

• Stringers #1–5 (2015)
  • collected in: Stringers Volume 1 (tpb, 141 pages, 2016)

Legendary Comics

• The Infinite Adventures of Jonas Quantum #1–6 (2015–2016)

Image

• Torrent #1 – (2023)^[23]