Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 3.0

A Harvard Law graduate who left the bar for the writers' room, becoming a key architect of some of American television's most puzzle-box serialized dramas. He wrote and produced Alias and Lost before co-running Fringe from 2008 to 2012, then moved into film, writing The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and Venom.