Writer: Eric Pearson

Eric Pearson came out of Marvel’s writers program, working on the studio’s short films before graduating to features, which is a career path that barely existed before.

Thor: Ragnarok is his best-known credit, and its shift into comedy rescued a character two previous films had failed to make interesting. He also worked on Black Widow and Godzilla vs Kong.

The in-house route explains the tonal fit. He had spent years inside the material before writing a feature in it, which is a very different apprenticeship from the usual spec-script path.