Lindsey Anderson Beer

Beer's career as a working screenwriter took its clearest early shape with *Sierra Burgess Is a Loser* (2018), a Netflix coming-of-age film that she wrote and for which she co-wrote the original song "Sunflower." It wasn't a prestige drama or an awards-circuit play — it was a streaming-native teen comedy, and it found a real audience. Hard to say if Beer anticipated how much that credit would follow her, but it established her as someone who could deliver a commercially viable script on a compressed timeline. Her work on *Chaos Walking* (2021) — a sci-fi adaptation starring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley that spent years in production limbo before finally releasing — went uncredited, which is one of those Hollywood realities that doesn't make the press releases but matters for understanding how a writer's résumé actually gets built. She also worked on *The Magic Order*, the Netflix series adapted from Mark Millar's comic (TMDB). The directorial debut came with *Pet Sematary: Bloodlines* (2023) for Paramount+. Rather than retread the 1989 original or its 2019 remake, Beer's film carved out a prequel story — focused on Jud Crandall's younger years — that didn't require audiences to have seen either previous version to follow along. The film became Paramount+'s most-watched original in the U.S. within its first 30 days, which is the kind of metric that gets a filmmaker's next several projects greenlit fast. Looking ahead, Beer's pipeline includes the *Star Trek* feature she's set to write, the sci-fi thriller *Optimize* (which she'll direct, write, and produce, starring Lashana Lynch), and a slate of Lab Brew projects at Paramount that range from *Sleepy Hollow* to *Bambi* to a *Fast & Furious* spinoff — a list that, taken together, suggests someone who isn't particularly interested in being pigeonholed.