Max Botkin is an American screenwriter and producer. Botkin's original script for What Happened to Monday? was featured on the 2010 Blacklist for best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.
He began writing for TV with Wolverine and the X-Men.[1] What Happened to Monday? was filmed by Tommy Wirkola and starred Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, and Willem Dafoe.[2] The film was released theatrically in Europe and Asia and Netflix bought the streaming rights to the film for the United States as well as the U.K. and Latin America.[3][4] He also wrote Robosapien: Rebooted (originally scheduled to be released in 2009,[5] the film was released in the US on May 28, 2013) and Opposite Day.[6] [7]
In 2015, Max sold his original screenplay Ponce to Lionsgate/Pantelion and is executive producing, with Eugenio Derbez attached to star, produce and direct.[8] In April 2017, Botkin inked a deal with award-winning multimedia company 1stAvenueMachine to produce films with them through a first of its kind directors incubator.[9] In 2016, he co-wrote Show Dogs. The film was released in the United States on May 18, 2018,[10] directed by Raja Gosnell.