Derek Kolstad (born April 4, 1974) is an American screenwriter and producer. He created the John Wick franchise, which began in 2014. He continued to write for the first two sequels of the franchise and is mainly known as a screenwriter of action films and shows.

Filmography

• 2026Normal — Producer, Story, Screenplay
• 2025Ballerina — Characters
• 2025Nobody 2 — Screenplay, Story
• Splinter Cell: Deathwatch — Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
• 2023Die Hart — Writer, Executive Producer
• 2023John Wick: Chapter 4 — Characters
• The Continental: From the World of John Wick — Executive Producer, Original Film Writer
• 2022The Princess — Producer
• 2021Nobody — Screenplay, Executive Producer
• The Falcon and the Winter Soldier — Staff Writer, Co-Executive Producer
• Die Hart — Writer, Creator
• 2019John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum — Story, Characters, Screenplay
• 2017John Wick: Chapter 2 — Writer, Characters
• 2014John Wick — Writer
• 2013The Package — Writer
• 2012One in the Chamber — Writer
• A Darker Shade of Magic — Writer
• Acolyte — Screenplay
• Booker — Writer, Producer
• Canyon — Producer, Screenplay
• Coyote Blue — Screenplay
• Hunting Season — Writer
• Just Watch Me — Writer
• Normal 2 — Characters
• Ordained — Writer, Producer
• Painter — Screenplay, Producer
• Shield of Sparrows — Writer, Executive Producer
• Stray — Screenplay, Producer
• Streets of Rage — Producer
• The Man from Nowhere — Screenplay
• The Reckoner — Writer, Producer
• Time Agent — Screenplay

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2025Wick Is Pain — Self
• 2015Don't F*#% With John Wick — Self
• 2015John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry — Self
• 2015John Wick: NYC Noir — Self