Christopher Cantwell is an American writer, producer, and director who has worked in television, film, and comic books.

He is best known as one of the two co-creators of the TV series Halt and Catch Fire, for which he also served as a producer, showrunner, screenwriter, and director.

[1] Cantwell is a writer of comic books that includes The Blue Flame, She Could Fly, Everything, Doctor Doom, The Mask, Iron Man, Captain America, and Star Wars: Obi-Wan.

He served as an executive producer of the television adaptation of the comic book Paper Girls.

[2] Cantwell attended the University of Southern California and enrolled in its screenwriting program as an undergraduate.