Mark Anthony Green Goes From GQ Editor to A24 Filmmaker With ‘Opus’

Name: Mark Anthony Green Sundance project: “Opus,” an A24 thriller he wrote and directed. The movie, his first feature, stars Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett, Amber Midthunder, Young Mazino, Stephanie Suganami and Tony Hale. After premiering at Sundance, the film opens in theaters March 14. Notable past credits: Green spent 13 years at GQ; he started writing for the publication at age 19, his first job once he graduated from Morehouse College. “In a macro sense, I think a lot of my taste and my voice, I found that at GQ,” he says. Prior to “Opus,” he wrote and directed a short called “Trapeze, U.S.A.” in 2017. Green started writing “Opus” nearly five years ago, while still at GQ. (He officially left the magazine in 2023 and has since relocated to L.A.) “I read so many filmmakers who are like, ‘I had a dream and then this thing happened’ and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s an idea for a movie,’” Green says. “My approach to filmmaking is like there’s a basket with things that I want to say about the world, and then there’s a basket of worlds that I think visually and culturally would be really interesting to explore. And

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