Erik Bork
Screenwriting Credits
Television
(Supervising Producer/Writer of multiple episodes)
HBO/Executive Producers Tom Hanks & Steven Spielberg
Emmy, Golden Globe and Christopher Award
The true story of a company of U.S. paratroopers in World War II who jump into occupied France on D-Day then fight in a series of battles leading to the end of the war in Europe. (10-part limited series)
(Co-Producer/Writer of multiple episodes)
HBO/Executive Producer Tom Hanks
Emmy, Golden Globe and Producers Guild of America Award
The true, mission-by-mission story of America’s Apollo space program in the 1960’s and 70’s, culminating in six manned landings on the moon. (12-part limited series)
APPLE
HBO/The Playtone Company
A limited series chronicling the formation and early evolution of the Apple Computer Co., beginning with the initial partnership of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
WEST POINT
(Co-written with Michael Duggan)
Fox Broadcasting Co./Sony TV/The Playtone Company/25C Productions
Original pilot script for a one-hour series about an ensemble of new and upperclass cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and their personal and relationship challenges.
PARTNERS
NBC/Universal TV/Hypnotic
Original pilot script for a one-hour series focusing on an elite family law firm run as an old boys’ club, until a female general partner takes over and elevates the women instead of the men.
COPSICLES
Fox Broadcasting Co./Sony TV/Original Film
Original pilot script for a one-hour series about a pair of attractive male cops in the upscale beach community of La Jolla, CA – which is light on crime but heavy on dating options.
LLOYD WHAT HAPPENED
HBO/The Playtone Co. (based on the book by Stanley Bing)
Script for a half-hour limited comedy series about a married high level corporate executive whose brief fling with a co-worker leads to a downward spiral.
COMMUNITY PROPERTY
ABC Studios/The Littlefield Co.
Original pilot script for a half-hour comedy series about a divorced couple co-parenting their own children along with step-children from two new marriages, while still professionally intertwined.
DO OVER
Original pilot script for a half-hour comedy series about a man whose marriage ends, fumbling to move forward in his newly single life with two young kids and a distractingly attractive nanny.
OUR AFRICAN COUSINS
Original pilot script for a light one-hour series about a suburban family who discovers a trio of crash-landed friendly aliens with special powers, who they try to pass off as their African cousins.
PRIVILEGE
Original pilot script for a half-hour comedy series about two adult sons of a celebrity singer who dies and leaves everything to his new young wife, who they now want to partner with them in a non-profit.
THE GOLDEN PATH
Original pilot script for a one-hour limited series about the cultlike following that forms around a hunky L.A. yoga teacher whose business is sponsored by the new trophy wife of a music producer.
DETACHED
Original pilot script for a comedic half-hour limited series about a rising MMA fighter who loses his testicles in a dog attack, and he and his girlfriend’s lawsuit against its tech millionaire’s owner.
Film
(Writer/Producer/Director)
A romantic comedy about an idealistic progressive who meets someone special – but learning he voted for Donald Trump gives her pause.
WHIRLWIND
Universal Pictures/The Playtone Company/Director Steven Spielberg
A World War II documentary cinematographer participates in the Eighth Air Force’s biggest and most dangerous bombing missions over Nazi Germany.
ANT MAN
HBO Films
The true story of Kentucky Derby winning jockey Chris Antley, who descended into drug addiction and then staged a massive comeback, finishing just short of the first Triple Crown in over 20 years.
THE GREAT ESCAPE
TNT
A re-imagining and update of the classic film about a massive allied escape plan from a German POW camp in World War II.
THE WAY FORWARD
An R-rated comedy about two adult brothers – one a wheelchair user, the other a slacker – trying to move on with their professional and love lives after the death of their controlling mother.
THE UPGRADE
A comedy about a hairdresser in upstate New York who wakes up in a parallel reality in which she’s a well-known cable news pundit – while the version she’s switched with is trapped in her old life.
WHO ART IN VEGAS
A comedy about a young man raised by a lesbian couple who learns his real father is a wealthy and obnoxious casino owner, who might put him in his will but first wants to remake him in his own image.
BI-CAPABLE
A comedy about a struggling screenwriter who gets his big break from a prominent gay producer but begins to worry that the man’s interest in him is not just professional.
THE HOME WRECKER
A comedy about a private school teacher who learns the man she kissed at a school event is the married father of an eccentric boy at her school, whose mother hires her to tutor him.
(Writer/Director – 22-minute short)
A multiple film festival award-winning comedy about a mismatched couple trying to get DNA samples from three possible fathers of her baby that he has helped raise.