Marc Bernardin

Marc Bernardin (born November 29, 1971) is an American journalist, public speaker, TV and comic book writer, and podcaster. He has served as film editor for the Los Angeles Times and senior editor for The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly. He has written for GQ, Wired, Details, Vulture, Playboy, and Empire. He has been a staff writer for Castle Rock, Treadstone, and Carnival Row, and a supervising producer on Star Trek: Picard.

Bernardin was an intern on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He was a staff writer for the Syfy series Alphas, Hulu's series Castle Rock, based on the stories of Stephen King, USA Network’s series Treadstone, based on the Jason Bourne franchise, and Amazon Prime’s fantasy series Carnival Row. He has written comic books for Marvel, DC Comics, Image Comics, and several independent comic publishers. He is the co-creator of the DC comic book series The Highwaymen, which is in development as a major motion picture.

He co-hosts the Fatman Beyond podcast with filmmaker Kevin Smith and a second podcast named The Battlestar Galacticast with Tricia Helfer. In 2018, Bernardin won an Inkpot Award, an honour bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International. In 2019, Bernardin joined other WGA writers in firing their agents as part of the WGA's stand against the ATA and the practice of packaging.