A native of Fort Bragg, California, Stentz graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in journalism. As a journalist, he wrote and edited for publications such as The Economist, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Entertainment Weekly. In addition, he was an environmental activist for Earth First! in the early 1990s. After graduating from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in Journalism, he worked for Metro Silicon Valley, writing about television, books and popular culture, as well as the Sonoma County Independent In 1997, publisher Dan Pulcrano tapped Stentz to oversee Metro's rebranding and launch of its San Francisco monthly, The Metropolitan. After turning to screenwriting full-time, from 2000 to 2015 he worked with writing partner Ashley Edward Miller, beginning with Gene Roddenberry'sAndromeda. As a team, they co-wrote the films ', the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Thor, and Agent Cody Banks. He and Miller did some of the initial work on the project that became ', a sequel to the 1986 Tom Cruise film, Top Gun, releasing in 2020. As writer and producer, he is currently in post-production on the Netflixscience fictionadventure filmRim of the World, directed by McG. He has written and produced multiple television programs, including Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, The CW'sThe Flash, Fox'sFringe, and NBC's . He also created and developed a forthcoming animated show based on a popular franchise for DreamWorks, Universal, and Netflix. He has several projects in development, including television programs for Skydance Television, Warner Bros., and HBO, as well as the DCsuperhero filmBooster Gold at Warner Bros. and a remake of Big Trouble in Little China at Fox. Additionally, he co-wrote the acclaimed young adult novelColin Fischer, and is currently writing an adventure/thriller entitled Nevermore. He also teaches screenwriting in the United States and in China. He was recently a guest of the Wutianming Foundation in Tianjin, and of Wanda Studios in Beijing, where he taught young Chinese screenwriters the tricks and techniques of writing American action movies.
