Iron Man: Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway

MARK FERGUS & HAWK OSTBY (Screenplay by) have collaborated on more than a dozen scripts over the past decade, including their Oscar®-nominated adaptation of P.D. James’ novel “Children of Men” (along with Alfonso Cuarón, David Arata and Timothy J. Sexton) and the thriller “Consequence,” for HBO Pictures. Fergus made his directing debut with his and Ostby’s original screenplay “First Snow,” a psychological thriller starring Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo, William Fichtner and J.K. Simmons.

ART MARCUM & MATT HOLLOWAY (Screenplay by) began to work as a writing team in Los Angeles. They made their first sale – a pitch to Disney’s Touchstone Pictures – in late 2001. Subsequently, they have worked for Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. and DreamWorks, as well as CBS and Fox television. “Iron Man” is Marcum and Holloway’s first major motion picture to be produced, and will be followed by the upcoming “Punisher: War Zone,” directed by Lexi Alexander.

The son of a political science professor, Marcum was raised in Santa Cruz, California, but influenced by the wider world. Regular dinner guests at home included African revolutionaries, novelists, poets and filmmakers. He spent many years living overseas in both France and South America and is a graduate of Stanford University. After college, Marcum worked briefly in television news in Washington, D.C. before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film.
Holloway grew up in the Philadelphia area. After completing Stanford University’s undergraduate creative writing program, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a film writing career. Holloway worked many production jobs after college on movie sets as varied as James Cameron’s “Titanic” and Doug Liman’s “Go.”