Bryan Burk Biography

Fast Facts

• Helped J․J․ Abrams produce the 2009 "Star Trek," which became the first "Star Trek" film to win an Academy Award
• Was an executive producer of "Lost," which won and was nominated for hundreds of awards while also receiving a ranking of 27 in the Writers Guild of America's list of the 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time
• Before working with producers Brad Weston, Ned Tanen and John Davis, he graduated from USC's School of Cinema-Television
• Quote: "Many people have said long before me that your film is only as good as the bad guy․ And if you can have a convincing, real villain, then the possibilities of where you can go in that film are endless․"
• Quote: "I feel it is incumbent upon us as story tellers to try and maintain the excitement of going to a movie, sitting down, and experiencing a movie without knowing everything in advance․"
• Quote: "(On the success of "Lost") "It happens in those things where you're surrounded with people that have that same kind of passion and that same kind of taste and the same kind of excitement over something․""
• In 1998, he helped J․J․ Abrams form the film and television company Bad Robot Productions at Touchstone Television