---
name: "Will Merrick"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/will-merrick-2093041"
fi1m_id: "will-merrick-2093041"
imdb_id: "nm4148345"
tmdb_id: 2093041
wikidata_id: "Q116854699"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:33:30.596435+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Will Merrick

## Identity

Will Merrick

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/will-merrick-2093041
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** will-merrick-2093041
- **IMDb ID:** nm4148345
- **TMDB ID:** 2093041
- **Wikidata ID:** Q116854699
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116854699, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4148345/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2093041

Director. Born in Salisbury, North Carolina.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116854699, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4148345/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2093041

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Missing*](https://film.one/film/missing.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Will Merrick is an editor, director and screenwriter. A native of Salisbury, North Carolina, he studied at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.

He co-edited the screenlife thriller *Searching* (2018) with Nick Johnson. The pair later co-directed and co-wrote its follow-up *Missing* (2023), for which they also received story credit from the earlier film’s writers. Merrick edited the 2020 film *Run*.

*Sources: salisburypost.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Missing* (2023), Fi1m 64, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/missing.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *My Lady Jane* (2024), series, as Owen
- *Missing* (2023), Screenplay, Director — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/missing.md)
- *Run* (2020), Editor
- *Searching* (2018), Editor

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