Star Trek: Discovery director/executive producer Olatunde Osunsanmi has inked a multi-year overall deal with CBS Studios, the studio behind the main Star Trek Universe series.
This is Osunsanmi's first overall deal, and he is already working on the first project under the agreement, sci-fi drama Myth. Myth is co-written by Osunsanmi and Shaka: King of the Zulu Nation creators Olu Odebunmi and Tolu Awosika. Osunsanmi is set to direct the pilot for the project, which he is co-producing with his wife, writer-producer Lorna Clarke Osunsanmi, under the Silent Storm Productions label (All American). Myth will be released in theaters by CBS Studios in the following weeks.
Osunsanmi emerged into the scene in 2009 with the Universal Pictures film The Fourth Kind, starring Milla Jovovich, which he directed from a Black List screenplay he created based on a childhood nightmare. He co-wrote the screenplay for P.J. Pesce's 2010 film Smokin' Aces 2 and directed the 2013 film Evidence.
Osunsanmi has also been quite active in television during the last eight years. His first TV directing credits were for episodes of CBS Studios' Under the Dome and Extant, both for CBS.
In addition to Star Trek: Discovery for Paramount+CBS Studios, he was director/executive producer on the spin-off Short Treks and director/co-executive producer on TNT's Falling Skies. His credits as an episodic director include A&E's Bates Motel, NBC's Blacklist and Timeless, as well as Fox's Gotham, Minority Report, and Sleepy Hollow. Verve and Goodman, Genow, and Schenkman represent him.
