Burk Sharpless

Career overview

Burk Sharpless is an American screenwriter whose work is primarily collaborative, most notably with fellow writer Matt Sazama. Together they achieved early commercial success with the fantasy‑action film Dracula Untold, released in 2014, and the supernatural adventure The Last Witch Hunter in 2015. Following those hits, the pair continued to write genre pictures, penning the myth‑based epic Gods of Egypt in 2016, the superhero‑oriented Morbius in 2022, and the comic‑book adaptation Madame Web in 2024. Each of these later releases performed poorly at the box office and received largely negative reviews from critics.

In addition to feature films, Sharpless and Sazama expanded into television, co‑creating a reboot of the classic science‑fiction series Lost in Space for the streaming platform Netflix. According to his profile on The Movie Database, Sharpless is credited with eight writing credits, is identified as male, and was born in the United States. His professional reputation is defined by his partnership with Sazama and the range of high‑concept projects they have brought to both the big screen and streaming television.