Marcus Dunstan

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Marcus Dunstan is an American screenplay writer and director born in 1975 and hailing from Macomb, IL. He spent his formative years working in movie theaters and studying film at the University of Iowa. While in college Dunstan experimented with 16mm film often using himself as the guinea pig in poorly executed stunts that left him dragging behind a car, the target of flying knives, and thrice being set on fire. He holds the record for spilling the most fake blood ever in a student film. Since moving to Los Angeles in 1999, Dunstan toiled in several odd jobs including a retirement home, an Optometry clinic, and a video store while spending his nights writing on a borrowed computer from fellow screenwriter, Patrick Melton.

In March, 2005, Dunstan and Melton won Season Three of Project Greenlight with their screenplay, Feast. The director was John Gulager. The film stars Krista Allen and Eric Dane and was produced by Dimension Films and Neo Art & Logic.

Dunstan has written the screenplays for Feast, Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds, and Saw IV. He is also in pre-producation and post-production for several of his other screenplays, including The Midnight Man, Feast 3: The Happy Finish, Saw V and Saw VI. In addition to writing the screenplay for The Midnight Man, he will also be the director for that film.