Key Contributors | Writers Marlon Smith & Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan

Key Contributors | Writers Marlon Smith & Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan

Marlon and Daniel are two working class writers who grew up together in South London. They made their debut with their own critically acclaimed Channel 4 series Run and went on to win the RTS Award for Best Drama Writer and the BAFTA Television Craft Award for Breakthrough Talent.

Marlon and Daniel have since been commissioned to write Gaijin, a period action drama based on the true story of a black samurai in 16th century Japan for Paramount, with Matt Reeves (Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes) executive producing. This is alongside Red Star, an original sci-fi story being written for Warner Bros. with Braden Aftergood (Wind River, Hell Or High Water) producing.

Recently they have written for Sky Atlantic’s highly successful series Save Me as well as co-creating, with Ronan Bennett (Top Boy), a TV series based on the 2010 sci-fi film Monsters for Channel 4 which is due to go into production later this year.