Avi Arad

Avi Arad [אבי ארד] (Birth Date: August 1, 1948) is an Israeli-American entrepeneur and film producer. He was formerly an owner of Toy Biz (now Marvel Toys) and a key member at Marvel Entertainment and Marvel Studios. Currently, he is the founder and chairman of Arad Productions, and also a chairman at the American branch of Production I.G and a key member at Seaside Entertainment.

Arad is known for producing Marvel films, such as the Spider-Man movies, X-Men movies, Daredevil, Elektra, The Punisher and the only two movies that were part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, such as Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. Later in 2007, while he is still producing movies for Marvel Entertainment, he produced non-Marvel films, such as the Bratz live-action movie and Cody the Robosapien, which he wrote the story and the script for the latter one. His recent productions are considered of the former two, the CG movie Gamba and Friends and the television series, Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures. (Known in Japan as Pac-World)

Arad, also made a manga named "The Innocent" with Production I.G member Junichi Fujisaku and manwha artist YaSung Ko. His future projects consisted of a Borderlands film adaptation, a Naruto live action film, a Metal Gear Solid movie, Uncharted, inFAMOUS, and the upcoming Netflix original, Kong: King of the Apes, created by Arad and Allen Bohbot.

Arad is the executive producer and possibly an episode writer for Equestria Campus Supremacy alonsgide Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Aaron Montalvo, Jayson Thiessen and Greg Weisman, with his son Ari Arad and Arad Prods. member Alexandra Bland as producers alongside Hiroe Tsukamoto (Aniplex) and Devon Cody (DHX). He will also produce the film series for Hasbro, Aniplex, Kadokawa, Fox, Annapurna, and MGM.

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 * Arad, Kurtzman  and Orci worked together for  The Amazing Spider-Man 2  for  Sony.