Dann Stupp

Dann Stupp is a screenwriter, journalist, and media entrepreneur focused on character-driven stories about money, competition, and broken systems. He co-founded MMA Junkie, later acquired by USA Today Sports, and has written for The Athletic, USA Today, and ESPN.com.
Dann Stupp

Selected Work

Hard Refresh

Prestige TV Pilot
In 2005, as sports media moves online, a broke three-person fight site tries to drag a niche sport into the daylight – until fixing the system means taking on the people who profit from keeping it dirty.

Junk Wax

Featured Film
In 1989 Cincinnati, a foster kid who believes the back of a baseball card always tells the truth rallies a crew of misfits to create one perfect card — and take down the corrupt mogul manufacturing America’s next fake hero.

D1 Hustle

Prestige TV Pilot
At a shaky Virginia sports boarding school built on D1 promises, a disgraced journalist is hired to run a student newsroom and turn “earned media” into enrollment deposits – until the kids learn their stories can save the school or become the next lie.