Zack Estrin

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Zack Estrin (September 16, 1971 – September 23, 2022) was an American television producer and screenwriter.

Estrin began his career as a writer and producer on Charmed, Dawson's Creek, and Tru Calling, before serving as a co-executive producer of Prison Break.[1][2] He was set to write the script of an ultimately unproduced spin-off, Prison Break: Cherry Hill, along with Prison BreakTemplate:'s executive producer Matt Olmstead, both of whom conceived the idea for the spin-off with fellow executive producer, Dawn Parouse.[3] He was also a producer on the film Stranger than Fiction.[1]

From 2018 to 2021, he served as showrunner on the Netflix show Lost in Space.[4]

Personal life and death

Estrin was born in Woodland, California, and raised in Brooklyn, New York.[1] His father, Jonathan, was also a screenwriter.[5]

Estrin attended the University of Southern California.[2] He and his wife, Kari, had two daughters.[1]

On September 23, 2022, Estrin died while jogging in Hermosa Beach, California, after apparently going into cardiac arrest. He was 51, and was not known to be ill.[6]

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