Laeta Kalogridis (/ˈliːtə ˌkæləˈɡriːdɪs/ LEE-tə KAL-ə-GREE-diss) is an American screenwriter and television and film producer of Greek descent.
[1] She also served as an executive producer for the television series Birds of Prey and Bionic Woman,[2][3] and she co-wrote the screenplay for Terminator Genisys (2015)[4] and Alita: Battle Angel (2019).
She is also the founder of the pro-union website Hollywood United and was involved as a peacemaker in the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.
[14] In February 2006 she began writing The Dive, director James Cameron's planned film about the freediver Francisco "Pipin" Ferraras and his wife Audrey Mestre.
For Bionic Woman, she recalls being fired in part because she was told that she "didn't know how to write women," and was replaced by a male writer.
The New York Times reported her involvement, "Ms. Kalogridis and her friends... had become a pipeline to the guild members holding out for sizable gains, whose support would be needed if any deal was to be reached.
[21] She was also creator, screenwriter, and executive producer of Altered Carbon, a Netflix scifi series[22] which premiered in February 2018.
[23] She continues to work on the film adaptation of the manga Alita: Battle Angel as a co-writer along with James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez, which was released on February 14, 2019.