Leading London and Los Angeles-based management and production company 42 announced today that it has signed writer and executive producer Ed Solomon. Solomon’s work includes the iconic Men in Black franchise and the cult-favorite Bill & Ted series (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, and Bill & Ted Face the Music).
Solomon’s upcoming projects include The Christophers, a comedy directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Sir Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, slated to begin production in early 2025.
He is also developing The Spot, a psychological thriller which he created and is executive producing that stars Kate Winslet. It will premiere in summer 2026 on Hulu in conjunction with A24. In addition to his screenwriting achievements, Solomon’s fiction has appeared in prestigious publications such as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
Solomon penned Men in Black, and also worked on the Now You See Me movies. His body of work includes writing and executive producing HBO’s critically acclaimed six-part limited series Full Circle, directed by longtime collaborator Steven Soderbergh and starring Claire Danes, Zazie Beetz, Dennis Quaid, and Timothy Olyphant.
The series received two NAACP Image Award nominations. His earlier collaboration with Soderbergh, “Mosaic,” was a groundbreaking branching narrative HBO miniseries, earning a Technical Emmy® nomination.
Solomon also wrote the screenplay for the Soderbergh-directed feature No Sudden Move, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and featured an all-star cast, including Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Ray Liotta, Brendan Fraser, Kieran Kulkin and Matt Damon, among others. At just 21, he became a staff writer on ABC’s Laverne & Shirley before co-writing the groundbreaking It’s Garry Shandling’s Show.
42 is a leader in the management space and a go-to for game-changing storytellers who impact and shape culture through original and ground-breaking stories representing an eclectic range of high profile and emerging actors, writers, directors, and producers, among the likes of Jesse Armstrong (“Succession”), Julian Fellowes (“Downton Abbey”), Ralph Fiennes (“Conclave”), Anna Sawai (“Shogun”), Joe Penhall (“Mindhunter”) Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road), Charlie Brooker (“Black Mirror”), Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here), Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917), Darius Marder (Sound of Metal), Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady), and Alena Smith (“Dickinson”), Monica Beletsky (“Manhunt”).
Solomon continues to be represented by CAA.
