SARNOSKI
Michael

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Michael Sarnoski is an American filmmaker who wrote and directed the films Pig (2021), A Quiet Place: Day One (2024), and The Death of Robin Hood (2026). For Pig, he received numerous awards and nominations.

Career

While at Yale, Sarnoski co-wrote and directed the short film Love of the Dead, set in a zombie apocalypse. Sarnoski met Vanessa Block during the making of the film, and they later collaborated on the 2015 short documentary The Testimony, which Block wrote, produced, and directed while Sarnoski was editor and executive producer. Sarnoski also directed episodes of the TV series Olympia and Fight Night Legacy.

Sarnoski wrote and directed Pig based on a story by him and Block, and Neon released it in theaters in the United States on July 16, 2021. Sarnoski received the National Board of Review Award for Best Directorial Debut and was nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature and the Independent Spirit Awards' Someone to Watch Award and Best First Screenplay Award. He also received various nominations and wins from dozens of critics associations. The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Pig "subverted the past decade’s uptick of revenge films, ending in an empathetic gesture and emotional appeal rather than a bang", and Creative Screenwriting reported that the film "put Sarnoski on the map as a unique creative voice".

In April 2022, New Regency hired Sarnoski to write and direct a film adaptation of the 2018 graphic novel Sabrina.

John Krasinski, who directed A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II, approached Sarnoski to write and direct A Quiet Place: Day One after another director, Jeff Nichols, exited due to creative differences with Krasinski. Sarnoski wrote the screenplay based on a story by him and Krasinski and directed the film. Paramount Pictures released A Quiet Place: Day One in theaters globally in late June 2024.

Also in 2024, Sarnoski began development on the film The Death of Robin Hood, based on the legendary outlaw Robin Hood, with production to begin in February 2025. In April 2025, while in post-production for The Death of Robin Hood, Sarnoski signed on to write and direct a live-action film adaptation of the video game Death Stranding. By the following September, the film was in active development.

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