---
name: "Zach Baylin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/zach-baylin"
fi1m_id: "zach-baylin"
imdb_id: "nm1598140"
tmdb_id: 2360102
wikidata_id: "Q109332324"
roles: ["Writer","Producer"]
born: "1 January 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-19T04:00:49.205859+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."
---

# Zach Baylin

## Identity

Zach Baylin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/zach-baylin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** zach-baylin
- **IMDb ID:** nm1598140
- **TMDB ID:** 2360102
- **Wikidata ID:** Q109332324
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Baylin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109332324, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1598140/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2360102

Writer and producer. Born 1 January 1980 in Wilmington, Delaware, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1980, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
- **Active:** 2021–present
- **Also known as:** Zachary Jones Baylin, Зак Бейлін
- **Frequently works with:** [Jude Law](https://film.one/person/jude-law.md), [Justin Kurzel](https://film.one/person/justin-kurzel.md), [Reinaldo Marcus Green](https://film.one/person/reinaldo-marcus-green.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as writer, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 64 to 62 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 6, Sport 3, Action 2, Crime 2, History 2, Adventure 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $619m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Baylin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109332324, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1598140/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2360102

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Order*](https://film.one/film/the-order.md) (75), [*Creed III*](https://film.one/film/creed-iii.md) (72), [*Gran Turismo*](https://film.one/film/gran-turismo.md) (56)
- **Netflix:** [*Black Rabbit*](https://film.one/tv/black-rabbit.md) (63)
- **Paramount+:** [*Bob Marley: One Love*](https://film.one/film/bob-marley-one-love.md) (48)

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

## Fi1m on Zach Baylin

> Zach Baylin writes men with a plan, and his scripts follow the plan as faithfully as the men do. Given a director as hard as Justin Kurzel, that makes for a lean, gripping film; given a family to honour, it goes soft.

Richard Williams has a plan. He wrote it before his daughters were born, and *King Richard* (2021) watches him carry it out on the public courts of Compton with a shopping trolley of old balls and a stack of homemade brochures. Jann Mardenborough in *Gran Turismo* (2023) has a bedroom, a PlayStation and a father who wants him to get a job. In *Creed III* (2023) a man walks out on parole wanting a world title shot. Zach Baylin writes people who know where they are going, and his scripts usually know it too, which is the strength and the trouble.

He came to it late. Baylin spent more than a decade in New York as a production assistant and set dresser before *King Richard*, his first produced screenplay, arrived in 2021 from a pitch he had made in 2017. Since then the credits have come quickly: *Creed III* and *Gran Turismo* in 2023, *Bob Marley: One Love* and *The Order* in 2024, and the series *Black Rabbit* in 2025, which he created with his writing partner Kate Susman. Enough, by now, to see where he is reliable and where he is not.

He is reliable on structure. *The Order* is the best thing he has written: a manhunt across the Pacific Northwest in 1983, a run of bank robberies that an FBI agent slowly recognises as one organisation, and a plot that does not stop for anyone not carrying a gun. Justin Kurzel, who has spent his career on men who do terrible things, gets the best out of that, and we were held for all of its 116 minutes. The women are there to tell us about the men, which is the cost of a script this lean, and Baylin pays it without appearing to notice.

He is less reliable when the subject is somebody's father or somebody's husband. *King Richard* is warm and easy to sit through and never asks a hard question of the man at its centre. *Bob Marley: One Love*, made again with Reinaldo Marcus Green, with four writers and the Marley family credited, is more frightened still: a list of achievements with the man hidden behind them. Baylin has said he saw Richard Williams as "inspiring and so determined but also brash and self-defeating and self-serving", and the first film shows us some of that. The second shows us the discography.

Pace is the other habit. *Creed III* gets its man from parole to a title shot in the time most films take to cross town, and when the training montage arrived we sat through it impatient, able to name the minute it would start, aware that the friendship and the years of letters were being dealt with in a room we were not shown. *Gran Turismo* stops at every station of the underdog film in the expected order. *Black Rabbit*, with eight episodes to fill, has the opposite problem: fresh mistakes supply movement without telling us anything new about the brothers making them. Baylin does his research and builds a clean spine. Start with *The Order*, and hope the next true story he finds is one that refuses to behave.

## Biography

Zach Baylin is an American screenwriter. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2002. He began his career working in production and art departments on films and television series in New York City before turning to screenwriting.

Baylin made his feature debut with the screenplay for *King Richard* (2021), which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He subsequently wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for *Creed III* (2023), *Gran Turismo* (2023), *Bob Marley: One Love* (2024) and *The Order* (2024). He co-created the Netflix miniseries *Black Rabbit* (2025) with his wife, screenwriter Kate Susman.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *Black Rabbit* (2025), Fi1m 63, Writer, Creator, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/black-rabbit.md)
- *Bob Marley: One Love* (2024), Fi1m 48, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/bob-marley-one-love.md)
- *The Order* (2024), Fi1m 75, Executive Producer, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-order.md)
- *Creed III* (2023), Fi1m 72, Screenplay, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/creed-iii.md)
- *Gran Turismo* (2023), Fi1m 56, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/gran-turismo.md)
- *King Richard* (2021), Fi1m 68, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/king-richard.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Brother Save Us* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Black Rabbit* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-rabbit.md)
- *The Order* (2024), Executive Producer, Screenplay — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/the-order.md)
- *The Crow* (2024), Screenplay
- *Bob Marley: One Love* (2024), Screenplay — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/bob-marley-one-love.md)
- *Gran Turismo* (2023), Screenplay — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/gran-turismo.md)
- *Creed III* (2023), Story, Screenplay — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/creed-iii.md)
- *King Richard* (2021), Writer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/king-richard.md)
- *Wrestling* (2008), First Assistant Director
- *Untitled Getaway Driver Thriller*, Writer
- *Untitled UAP Conspiracy Thriller*, Writer
- *Come as You Are*, Writer
- *Untitled Lance Armstrong Film*, Screenplay, Executive Producer

## Gallery

- ![Ben Jackson, Jude Law, Zach Baylin, and Stuart Ford at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie The Order. (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/10204/gallery-dcb9b5fdfe8e.jpg) Ben Jackson, Jude Law, Zach Baylin, and Stuart Ford at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie The Order. (2021) — Adam Chitayat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Ben_Jackson%2C_Jude_Law%2C_Zach_Baylin%2C_and_Stuart_Ford_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Ben_Jackson%2C_Jude_Law%2C_Zach_Baylin%2C_and_Stuart_Ford_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cast and crew of the movie The Order at the 81st Venice International Film Festival (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/10204/gallery-bf6dfb0d40d2.jpg) Cast and crew of the movie The Order at the 81st Venice International Film Festival (2024) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/The_Order-68080.jpg/1280px-The_Order-68080.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Writer Zach Baylin at the 81st Venice International Film Festival (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/10204/gallery-27deb74bf853.jpg) Writer Zach Baylin at the 81st Venice International Film Festival (2024) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Zach_Baylin-68030.jpg/1280px-Zach_Baylin-68030.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Zach Baylin](https://film.one/media/person/10204/gallery-731d7c7e62fc.jpg) Zach Baylin — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Zach_Baylin-68039.jpg/1280px-Zach_Baylin-68039.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Zach Baylin](https://film.one/media/person/10204/gallery-ce5f5d155a63.jpg) Zach Baylin — Image via TMDB
- ![Zach Baylin, screenwriter, at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie The Order. (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/10204/gallery-3c5ca042e927.jpg) Zach Baylin, screenwriter, at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie The Order. (2021) — Adam Chitayat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Zach_Baylin_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_2.jpg/1280px-Zach_Baylin_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2022: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *King Richard*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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