Damon Lindelof
Damon Lindelof in 2012
Born	(1973-04-24) April 24, 1973 (age 39) Teaneck, New Jersey
Nationality	American
Occupation	Executive producer screenwriter

Damon Laurence Lindelof (born April 24, 1973) is an American television writer and executive, most recently noted as the co-creator and executive producer for the television series Lost. He has written for and produced Crossing Jordan, and wrote for Nash Bridges, Wasteland, and the MTV anthology series Undressed. Before these, he worked on reviewing scripts at Paramount, Fox, and Alan Ladd studios.

Early life[link]

Lindelof is a native of Teaneck, New Jersey, where he attended Teaneck High School, a school whose diverse student body he credits with expanding his horizons as a writer.^[1] He celebrated his bar mitzvah in Teaneck, where he would join his family at synagogue on the Sabbath, and recounted how the fact that "I was a Jewish white kid growing up in Teaneck, but at the same time, I had African and Filipino and Asian friends and to have that experience all through high school while getting an awesome education was wonderful."^[2] Lindelof attended film school at New York University, performing briefly in the band Petting Zoo, and moved to Los Angeles after graduating.

An early boost to his writing career came in 1999, when he was selected as a semifinalist for a Nicholl Fellowship for his screenplay Perfectionists.^[3]

Lindelof is a self-professed Stephen King fan and has placed many references to King's work into Lost, as well as mentioning within the Official Lost Podcast that The Stand serves as a huge influence. Lindelof has been quoted as saying that the graphic novel Watchmen, written by Alan Moore, is the greatest piece of popular fiction ever produced, and its effect on Lost is evident many times in the show.^[4] He has also mentioned Twin Peaks as a big influence for Lost.^[5] J.J. Abrams has often cited Patrick McGoohan's similarly allegorical sci-fi/spy series The Prisoner as another major influence on Lost. Lindelof lists his favorite six films, in no particular order, as Touch of Evil, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Pulp Fiction, The Shining, Bambi, and The Godfather Part II.^[6]

Career[link]

Lindelof is the writer of the comic book miniseries Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk for Marvel Comics, which takes place in the Ultimate Marvel universe and began publication in January 2006. Despite being a six-issue miniseries, production was suspended after the second issue in February 2006 due to Lindelof's heavy workload elsewhere; however, the last of the scripts were submitted to Marvel in 2008 and the series resumed publication in March 2009.

[edit] Lost

He was an executive producer and joint showrunner (alongside Carlton Cuse) on Lost. Lindelof and the Lost writing staff won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2006 ceremony for their work on the first and second seasons.^[7] He was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series a further three times; at the February 2007 ceremony for his work on the second and third seasons,^[8] at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the fourth season^[9] and at the February 2010 ceremony for his work on the fifth season.^[10] Lindelof and his co-writer Drew Goddard were also nominated for the WGA Award for Best Episodic Drama at the February 2008 ceremony for writing the episode "Flashes Before Your Eyes".^[11]

Other projects[link]

Lindelof is co-screenwriter of Ridley Scott's Prometheus, scheduled for June 2012 release.

He is also a producer in the show Once Upon a Time, which was created by former Lost writers. He served as co-producer on the 2009 film, Star Trek. Along with producing the sequel, he also co-wrote the screenplay with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. He also co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of the comic series Cowboys & Aliens with the duo, directed by Jon Favreau.

It was believed that after the conclusion of Lost, Lindelof and J. J. Abrams would write and produce a film adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower, but Lindelof squelched this notion in a late 2000s USA Today, commenting, "After working six years on 'Lost,' the last thing I want to do is spend the next seven years adapting one of my favorite books of all time. I'm such a massive Stephen King fan that I'm terrified of screwing it up. I'd do anything to see those movies written by someone else. My guess is they will get made because they're so incredible. But not by me."^[12]

In December 2008, Lindelof guest starred in an episode of The Write Environment, a direct-to-DVD series featuring in-depth, candid one-on-one interviews with some of TV's most prolific and well-known series creator/writers.

Personal life[link]

Lindelof has stated that he is a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party.^[13]

[edit] Lost episodes (as writer)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Damon Lindelof

• Damon Lindelof at the Internet Movie Database
• Damon Lindelof interviews, March 28, July 17, and August 21, 2005, LostTV-Forum.com
• Damon Lindelof podcast, Marvel.com

Masi Oka
Oka at the Heroes roadshow in Singapore, August 2007
Born	Masayori Oka (1974-12-27) December 27, 1974 (age 37) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor/Digital effects artist
Years active	1998—present

Masayori "Masi" Oka (born December 27, 1974) is a Japanese-American actor and digital effects artist. He became widely known for his role on NBC's Heroes as Hiro Nakamura.

Early life[link]

Oka was born in Tokyo, Japan, to Setsuko Oka.^[1] His parents divorced when he was one month old; he was raised in a single parent family and has never met his father.^[2] He was six years old when his mother and he moved to Los Angeles from Japan.^[3]At age eight, he appeared on the CBS-TV game show Child's Play. In 1987, a twelve-year-old Oka was featured on the cover of Time titled "Those Asian-American Whiz Kids".^[4] Though he was not featured in the article itself, he was acquainted with the photographer who conducted the shoot.^[5] His IQ has been reported at 180.^[6]

He attended elementary school at The Mirman School and graduated high school from Harvard-Westlake School in 1992. After he graduated, he worked on the 1992 Summer Olympics as an English, Spanish, and Japanese translator.^[7]He graduated from Brown University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and mathematics. While at Brown, he also served as the musical director of The Bear Necessities, an all-male a cappella group. Oka described the group as a "brothership."^[8]

Oka landed his first job after graduation at Industrial Light & Magic, George Lucas's motion picture visual special effects company, with the hope of one day earning an Oscar for technical work on a motion picture.^[9] Oka was also featured in the San Francisco Chronicle with ILM co-worker Anthony Shafer in a pre-dot-com article where he echoed his desire to meld acting and technology.^[10] He worked on the Star Wars prequel trilogy.^[5]

Acting career[link]

Oka first tried his hand at acting in 2000. He earned a Screen Actors Guild card by appearing in industry films, then moved to Los Angeles.^[11] ILM stipulated in his contract that he could work at its Los Angeles branch, but would have to return to their Marin County location if he did not get cast for a recurring role that season. Oka did get cast for a pilot. Although the show was not picked up, it did satisfy the contract's requirements and he was allowed to stay in Los Angeles. He decided to continue pursuing acting. He landed several guest spots and then a recurring role as Franklyn on the ABC comedy Scrubs. He was also featured in a North American commercial for Sega's 2002 PlayStation 2 video game, Shinobi, with the catch phrase 'Shinobi's back!' in front of Sega's 1987 Shinobi arcade cabinet. Oka guest starred in the Yes, Dear episode "Dances with Couch", aired April 8, 2002.

Oka also has a 20-second spot in Austin Powers in Goldmember where he had to say "It looks like Godzilla, but due to international copyright laws, it's not".

In 2006, Oka was cast for the role of Hiro Nakamura in Heroes. Oka translates his dialogue from the show's scripts from English to Japanese;^[12] English subtitles accompany his Japanese dialogue on the show. Additionally, Oka's real voice is closer to that of "Future Hiro" than the higher-pitched voice he uses as "Present Hiro" as heard during his appearances on Heroes.

His portrayal of the role earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination that year in the "Best Supporting Actor on a TV Series" category and an Emmy Award nomination for best supporting actor in a drama series, the only actor on Heroes to be nominated for both awards.^[13] In addition to his work on the show, he continues to work at ILM up to three days a week as a Research and Development Technical Director, writing programs that create special effects.^[9] He played the role of Bruce in the big screen version of Get Smart.

He played a real estate broker who is trying to sell to Seann William Scott's character in Steve Conrad's The Promotion.

He was named the "Coolest Geek" at the Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards on June 13, 2007.^[14] In 2007, he presented an award with Heroes co-star Hayden Panettiere on the 20th annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.

Oka plays the American-born coroner Max Bergman in CBS' Hawaii Five-0 reboot.^[15] He joined the series' main cast in season 2.

Oka made an appearance in the film Friends with Benefits.

Interests[link]

Oka is fluent in Japanese, English and Spanish. His hobbies include kendo^[16] where he carries the rank of shodan,^[17] playing video games, watching and writing romantic comedies, playing the piano, beatboxing, and singing. He avidly collects manga; his current favorites include Eyeshield 21, One Piece and PLUTO, and he professes to be a big fan of Naoki Urasawa's other works.^[18] In 1988, he placed fourth in the California state MATHCOUNTS competition, and was one of the four students to represent the state of California in the national competition.^[19] He has been a guild leader for Dawn of Valor in World of Warcraft, a popular MMORPG video game.^[20]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Masi Oka

• Masi Oka at the Internet Movie Database
• Daily Telegraph Article
• NY Times Article
• Brown University "From Special Effects to Acting, CS Alum Masi Oka is One of the 'Heroes'"
• Brown Daily Herald by Alissa Cerny 9/18/06 "Brown alum snags big role in NBC series 'Heroes'"
• Time magazine cover - August 31, 1987 (Masi Oka is to the farthest left)
• Video of Masi Oka discussing his role on the hit TV series, Heroes, plus making special effects for the movie, Star Wars.
• Nichi Bei Times Interview
• San Francisco Chronicle Article

Sir Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott in March 2012.
Born	(1937-11-30) 30 November 1937 (age 74) South Shields, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Film director, film producer
Years active	1965–present
Notable work(s)	Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Gladiator, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down, American Gangster
Spouse	Felicity Heywood, (m. 1964–1975, divorced) Sandy Watson (m. 1979–1989, divorced)
Children	With Felicity Heywood Jake (born 1965) Luke (born 1968) With Sandy Watson Jordan (born 1978)

Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November, 1937) is an English film director and producer. His most famous films include The Duellists (1977), Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Legend (1985), Black Rain (1989), Thelma & Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000), Hannibal (2001), Black Hawk Down (2001), Kingdom of Heaven (2005) American Gangster (2007), Body of Lies (2008), and Prometheus (2012).

Scott has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Directing, as well as Golden Globe and Emmy Awards. He was knighted in the 2003 New Year Honours.^[1] In 2011, Scott received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[2] He is the older brother of film director Tony Scott.^[3]

Early Life[link]

Scott was born in South Shields,^[4] England, the son of Elizabeth and Colonel Francis Percy Scott.^[5] He was raised in an Army family, meaning that for most of his early life, his father — an officer in the Royal Engineers — was absent. Ridley's older brother, Frank, joined the Merchant Navy when he was still young and the pair had little contact. During this time the family moved around, living in (among other areas) Cumbria, Wales and Germany. He has a younger brother, Tony, also a film director. After the Second World War, the Scott family moved back to their native north-east England, eventually settling in Teesside (whose industrial landscape would later inspire similar scenes in Blade Runner). He enjoyed watching films, and his favourites include Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane and Seven Samurai.^[6] Scott studied in Teesside from 1954 to 1958, at Grangefield Grammar School and later in West Hartlepool College of Art, graduating with a Diploma in Design.

He went on to study at the Royal College of Art, contributing to the college magazine, ARK, and helping to establish its film department. For his final show, he made a black and white short film, Boy and Bicycle, starring his younger brother, Tony Scott, and his father. The film's main visual elements would become features of Scott's later work; it was issued on the 'Extras' section of The Duellists DVD. After graduation in 1963, he secured a job as a trainee set designer with the BBC, leading to work on the popular television police series Z-Cars and the science fiction series Out of the Unknown.

He was assigned to design the second Doctor Who serial, The Daleks, which would have entailed realising the famous alien creatures. However, shortly before Scott was due to start work, a schedule conflict meant that he was replaced on the serial by Raymond Cusick.^[7]

In 1968, Ridley and Tony Scott founded Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), a film and commercial production company.^[8] Five members of the Scott family are directors, all working for RSA.^[9] Brother Tony has been a successful film director for more than two decades; sons, Jake and Luke are both acclaimed commercials directors as is his daughter, Jordan Scott. Jake and Jordan both work from Los Angeles and Luke is based in London.

In 1995, Shepperton Studios was purchased by a consortium headed by Ridley and Tony Scott, which extensively renovated the studios while also expanding and improving its grounds.^[10]

Career[link]

Beginnings[link]

Working with Alan Parker, Hugh Hudson, Hugh Johnson at RSA during the 1970s, Scott made television commercials in the UK including most notably the 1974 Hovis advert, "Bike Round" (New World Symphony), which was filmed in Shaftesbury, Dorset.

[edit] The Duellists

The Duellists of 1977 was Ridley Scott's first feature film. It was produced in Europe and won a Best Debut Film medal at the Cannes Film Festival but made limited commercial impact in the US. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, it featured two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud (played by Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel). Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out feud over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. The film is lauded for its historically authentic portrayal of Napoleonic uniforms and military conduct, as well as its accurate early-19th-century fencing techniques recreated by fight choreographer William Hobbs. It is also lauded for the stunning cinematography of the Dordogne.

[edit] Alien

Scott's box office disappointment with The Duellists was compounded by the success received by Alan Parker with American-backed films — Scott admitted he was "ill for a week" with envy. Scott had originally planned to next adapt a version of Tristan and Iseult, but after seeing Star Wars, he became convinced of the potential of large scale, effects-driven films. He therefore accepted the job of directing Alien, the ground-breaking 1979 horror/science-fiction film that would give him international recognition.

While Scott would not direct the three Alien sequels, the female action hero Ellen Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver), introduced in the first film, would become a cinematic icon. Scott was involved in the 2003 restoration and re-release of the film including media interviews for its promotion. At this time Scott indicated that he had been in discussions to make the fifth and final film in the Alien franchise. However, in a 2006 interview, the director remarked that he had been unhappy about Alien: The Director's Cut, feeling that the original was "pretty flawless" and that the additions were merely a marketing tool.^[11]

[edit] Blade Runner

After a year working on the film adaptation of Dune, and following the sudden death of his brother Frank, Scott signed to direct the film version of Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Starring Harrison Ford and featuring an acclaimed soundtrack by Vangelis, Blade Runner was a disappointment in theatres in 1982 and was pulled shortly thereafter. Scott's notes were used by Warner Brothers to create a rushed director's cut in 1991 which removed the voiceovers and modified the ending. Scott personally supervised a digital restoration of Blade Runner and approved the Final Cut. This version was released in Los Angeles, New York, and Toronto cinemas on 5 October 2007, and as an elaborate DVD release on 18 December 2007.^[12] Today, Blade Runner is often ranked by critics as one of the most important and influential science fiction films of the 20th century^[13] and is usually discussed along with William Gibson's novel Neuromancer as initiating the cyberpunk genre. Scott regards Blade Runner as his "most complete and personal film".^[14]

"1984" Apple Macintosh commercial[link]

In 1984 Scott directed the television commercial 1984, written by Steve Hayden and Lee Clow, produced by Chiat\Day, and starring Anya Major as the unnamed heroine and David Graham as "Big Brother".^[15][16] It was released for a single airing in the United States on 22 January 1984 during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII.^[17] It introduced the Macintosh for the first time and is now considered a "watershed event"^[18] and a "masterpiece".^[19]

1984 used the unnamed heroine to represent the coming of the Macintosh (indicated by her white tank top with a Picasso-style picture of Apple’s Macintosh computer on it) as a means of saving humanity from "conformity" (Big Brother).^[20]

These images were an allusion to George Orwell's noted novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which described a dystopian future ruled by a supposedly fictional "Big Brother".

[edit] Legend

In 1985 Scott directed Legend, a fantasy film produced by Arnon Milchan. Having not tackled the fairy tale genre, Scott decided to create a "once upon a time" film set in a world of fairies, princesses, and goblins. Scott cast Tom Cruise as the film's hero, Jack, Mia Sara as Princess Lily, and Tim Curry as the Satan-horned Lord of Darkness. A series of problems with both principal photography, including the destruction of the forest set by fire, and post-production (including heavy editing and substitution of Jerry Goldsmith's original score with a score by Tangerine Dream) hampered the film's release. Legend received scathing reviews.

1987–92[link]

Scott made Someone to Watch Over Me, a romantic police drama starring Tom Berenger, Lorraine Bracco and Mimi Rogers in 1987, and Black Rain, a 1989 cop drama starring Michael Douglas and Andy García, shot partially in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. Both achieved mild success at the box office.

Thelma & Louise (1991) starring Geena Davis as Thelma, and Susan Sarandon as Louise, was successful, and revived Scott's reputation. However, his next project—an independent movie, 1492: Conquest of Paradise—was less successful. It is a visually striking film telling the story of Christopher Columbus. However, it was a box office failure, and Scott did not release another film for four years.

Recent career[link]

In 1995, with his brother Tony, Scott formed the film and television production company, Scott Free Productions in Los Angeles. All his subsequent feature films, starting with White Squall and G.I. Jane, starring Demi Moore and Viggo Mortensen, were produced under the Scott Free banner. Also in 1995 the two brothers purchased controlling interest in Shepperton Studios, which later merged with Pinewood Studios. Scott and his brother have produced the CBS series Numb3rs (2005–2010), a crime drama about a genius mathematician who helps the FBI solve crimes, and The Good Wife (2009–), a legal drama concerning an attorney continuing her law practice while coping with her husband, a former state attorney trying to rebuild his political career after a major scandal.

2000–2005[link]

The huge success of Scott's film Gladiator (2000) has been credited with reviving the nearly defunct "sword and sandal" historical genre. Scott then turned to Hannibal (2001), the sequel to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs. In 2002, Scott released the war film, Black Hawk Down, which further established his position as a critically and financially successful film maker. The film won two Oscars.

In 2003 Scott directed Matchstick Men, adapted from the novel by Eric Garcia and starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell and Alison Lohman. It received mostly positive reviews and performed moderately at the box office. In 2005 he made the modestly successful Kingdom of Heaven, a movie about the Crusades which consciously sought to connect history to current events. The Moroccan government sent the Moroccan cavalry as extras in the epic battle scenes.^[21]

Unhappy with the theatrical version of the film (which he blamed on paying too much attention to the opinions of preview audiences), Scott supervised a director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven, which was released on DVD in 2006.^[22] In an interview to promote the latter, when asked if he was against previewing in general, Scott stated: "It depends who's in the driving seat. If you've got a lunatic doing my job, then you need to preview. But a good director should be experienced enough to judge what he thinks is the correct version to go out into the cinema."^[23]

2006–present[link]

Scott teamed up again with Gladiator star Russell Crowe, directing the movie A Good Year, based on the best-selling book. The film was released on 10 November 2006, with a score by Marc Streitenfeld. Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp and Subsidiary studio 20th Century Fox (who backed the film) dismissed A Good Year as "a flop" at a shareholders' meeting only a few days after the film's release.^[24]

Scott's next directorial work was on American Gangster, the story of real-life drug kingpin Frank Lucas. He was the third director to attempt the project after Antoine Fuqua and Terry George. Denzel Washington and Benicio del Toro had been cast in the initial Steven Zaillian-scripted project under the working title Tru Blu, both actors having been paid salaries of $20 m and $15 m respectively without doing any production on the film. Following George's departure, Scott took over the project in early 2006. He had Zaillian rewrite the script to focus on the dynamic between Frank Lucas and Richie Roberts. Washington signed back on to the project as Lucas, and Crowe signed on to play Roberts. The film finally premiered in November 2007 to positive reviews and good box office. In late 2008 Scott released the espionage thriller Body of Lies starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Crowe once again which opened to luke-warm ticket-sales and mixed reviews.

Scott directed an adaptation of Robin Hood titled Robin Hood, which starred Russell Crowe as Robin Hood and Cate Blanchett as Maid Marian, and which was released on 13 May 2010 in Australia and 14 May 2010 in America. The film also starred Max von Sydow and Mark Strong.

Scott and his brother Tony produced the film adaptation of the 1980s TV cult classic The A-Team, which was directed by Joe Carnahan and released on 11 June 2010.

On 31 July 2009, news surfaced of a two part prequel to Alien, developed by 20th Century Fox.^[25] with Scott attached to direct.^[26]. The project, ultimately reduced to a single film called Prometheus, which Scott describes as sharing "strands of Alien's DNA" while not being a direct prequel, is scheduled for release in June 2012.

On 6 July 2010, YouTube announced the launch of Life In A Day, an experimental documentary that was to be executive produced by Scott. Released at the Sundance Film Festival on 27 January 2011, it incorporates footage shot on 24 July 2010 that was submitted by YouTube users from around the world.^[27]

Planned projects[link]

In April 2008, Scott announced his new project, The Kind One, a period drama set for release in 2012. The film will star recent Academy Award nominee Casey Affleck.^[28] It is based on the novel of the same name by screenwriter Tom Epperson.

On 12 October 2008, Scott confirmed that after a 25 year wait for the rights to become available, he is making a return to science fiction with a film adaptation of the book The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. He was looking for a script writer.^[29] In March 2009, Scott confirmed that the film would be in 3D citing James Cameron's Avatar as an inspiration for doing so. "I'm filming a book by Joe Haldeman called Forever War. I've got a good writer doing it. I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D. It's going to be phenomenal."^[30][31]

Another science fiction project to which Scott has been attached is an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, with Leonardo DiCaprio also attached.^[32]

In August 2011, information leaked about production of a sequel to Blade Runner by Alcon Entertainment, with Alcon partners Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove.^[33] Scott announced on 15 October 2009 that he will direct a film adaptation of the Red Riding trilogy.^[34]

As of 1 February 2012, Ridley Scott discussed a project based on a screenplay called The Counsellor by Cormac McCarthy with the producers of The Road, Nick Wechsler and Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz. ^[35]

Personal life[link]

Ridley Scott was married to Felicity Heywood from 1964 to 1975. The couple had two sons, Jake and Luke, both of whom work as directors on Scott's production company Ridley Scott Associates. Scott later married advertising executive Sandy Watson in 1979, with whom he had a daughter, Jordan Scott, and divorced in 1989.^[36][37]

His current partner is the actress Giannina Facio, whom he has cast in all his movies since White Squall except American Gangster.^{[citation needed]} He divides his time between homes in London, France, and Los Angeles.

Approach and style[link]

Scott was not initially considered an actors' director^{[citation needed]}, but has become more receptive to ideas from his cast as his career has developed. Examples include Susan Sarandon's suggestions that the character of Louise pack shoes in plastic bags in one scene of Thelma & Louise, and another where her character exchanges jewelry for a hat and other items— and Tim Robbins' collaboration with Scott and Susan Sarandon to rework the final scene with a more upbeat ending. Russell Crowe commented, "I like being on Ridley's set because actors can perform [...] and the focus is on the performers."^[38] Paul M. Sammon, in his book Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner, commented in an interview with Brmovie.com that Scott's relationship with his actors has improved considerably over the years.^[39] More recently during the filming of Scott's 2012 film, Prometheus, Charlize Theron praised the director's willingness to listen to suggestions from the cast for improvements in the way their characters are portrayed on script. Theron worked alongside the writers and Scott to give more depth to her character during filming.^[40]

On the other hand, he can be a demanding and difficult director to work for. He was nicknamed "Guvnor" in the Blade Runner production. Several crew members wore protest t-shirts with slogans such as "Yes Guvnor, my ass" and "Will Rogers never met Ridley Scott" in reference to Will Rogers' most famous quotation, "I never met a man I didn't like".^{[41][citation needed]} This was mainly in response to the way that Scott directed his first American crew, which some considered too harsh.

His striking visual style, incorporating a detailed approach to production design and innovative, atmospheric lighting, has been influential on a subsequent generation of filmmakers — many of whom have imitated his style. Scott commonly uses slow pacing until the action sequences. Examples include Alien and Blade Runner; the LA Times critic Sheila Benson, for example, would call the latter "Blade Crawler" "because it's so damn slow". Another technique he employs is use of sound or music to build tension, as heard in Alien, with hissing steam, beeping computers and the noise of the machinery in the space ship.

Scott has developed a method for filming intricate shots as swiftly as possible:

"I like working, always, with a minimum of three cameras. [...] So those 50 set-ups [a day] might only be 25 set-ups except I'm covering in the set-up. So you're finished. I mean, if you take a little bit more time to prep on three cameras, or if it's a big stunt, eleven cameras, and — whilst it may take 45 minutes to set up — then when you're ready you say 'Action!', and you do three takes, two takes and is everybody happy? You say, 'Yeah, that's it.' So you move on."^[38]

Although Scott is often known for his painterly directorial style, other techniques and elements include:

• Strong female characters.^[42][43]
• Some of his movies feature strong conflicts between father and son that usually end with the latter killing the former (Blade Runner, Gladiator) or witnessing the event (Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood). The Lord of Darkness in Legend also mentions his "father" on a few occasions. As part of the conflict between father and son there are some repetitive scenes: in Gladiator, the son hugs the father seemingly as an expression of love but this embrace turns into the suffocation and death of the father. There is a similar sequence in Blade Runner.
• Scott utilises cityscapes as an emphasis to his storytelling (i.e., a futuristic Los Angeles in Blade Runner, Tokyo in Black Rain, Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven).
• In Gladiator, Blade Runner and Kingdom of Heaven, a son gets to know his father when he is grown up. Other common elements are that the mother is not seen, and that the son or father is seen performing his last actions. For example, Roy Batty is dying when he saves Deckard, Maximus dies after killing Commodus and Godfrey of Ibelin kills some enemies after he has been mortally wounded by an arrow. In addition, the hero is saved from death before attaining his greatest deeds: Deckard is saved by Rachel, Maximus is saved by a slave and Balian is saved by a Muslim enemy. Similar situations can be seen in Tony Scott's Man on Fire.
• Military and officer classes as characters reflecting his father's career, such as in G.I. Jane and Black Hawk Down and Kingdom of Heaven.
• Storyboarding his films extensively. These illustrations, when made by himself, have been referred to as "Ridleygrams" in DVD releases.
• Scott was once known for requesting a great many takes. This was evident on Blade Runner: the crew nicknamed the movie "Blood Runner" because of this.
• He often makes use of classical music (the Hovis advertisements, Someone to Watch Over Me).
• Extensive use of smoke and other atmospheres (in Alien, Blade Runner and Black Rain), plus fans and fan-like objects (Blade Runner, Black Rain and the large Boeing jet engines in the 1984 TV advertisement). Fans are also used in Hannibal, for symbolic purposes.
• Consistency in his choice of composers, using Jerry Goldsmith (Alien and Legend), Vangelis (Blade Runner and 1492: Conquest of Paradise), Hans Zimmer (Black Rain, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down and Matchstick Men) or Marc Streitenfeld (A Good Year, American Gangster, Body of Lies, Robin Hood and Prometheus). Scott has also twice used songs by Sting during the film credits ("Valparaiso" for White Squall and "Someone to Watch Over Me" for the movie of the same title).

DVD format and director's cut[link]

Scott is known for his enthusiasm for the DVD format, providing audio commentaries and interviews for all his films where possible. In the July 2006 issue of Total Film magazine, he stated: "After all the work we go through, to have it run in the cinema and then disappear forever is a great pity. To give the film added life is really cool for both those who missed it and those who really loved it."^[23]

Running alongside his enthusiasm for DVD, Scott is sometimes considered the "father" of the director's cut, though the impetus to produce such versions has sometimes begun with other parties. The positive reaction to the Blade Runner Director's Cut encouraged Scott to re-cut several movies that were a disappointment at the time of their release (including Legend and Kingdom of Heaven). Today the practice of alternative cuts is more commonplace, though often as a way to make a film stand out in the DVD marketplace by adding new material.

Filmography[link]

Commercials[link]

• Bike Round for Hovis (1973)
• Chanel... Share the fantasy. for Chanel (1979)
• 1984 for Apple Computer (1984)
• Deficit Trials for W.R. Grace (1986)
• The Choice of a New Generation for Pepsi (1986) (Starred Don Johnson and Glenn Frey)
• Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo Super Bowl commercial (1992)

TV shows[link]

• Numb3rs (Producer, 2005–2010)
• The Good Wife (Executive producer, 2009–present)
• The Pillars of the Earth (Executive producer, 2010)
• Prophets of Science Fiction (Executive producer, 2011)
• Labyrinth (Executive producer, 2012)

Awards & Nominations[link]

Scott has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Directing: for Thelma & Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down, as well as a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Emmy Award. He has won 3 British Academy Awards for the film Blade Runner.^[44] He was knighted in the 2003 New Year Honours. In 2011, He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.^{[45] [1]}

Box office performance[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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Brian Keller Vaughan
Vaughan at a signing for Saga #1 at Midtown Comics in Manhattan.
Born	1976 Cleveland, Ohio
Occupation	Comic book writer, Playwright, Screenwriter
Nationality	American
Notable work(s)	Lost Y: The Last Man Pride of Baghdad Ex Machina Runaways
Notable award(s)	2005 Eisner Award for Best Writer 2007 Wired magazine Rave Award 2008 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series 2008 Eisner Award for Best New Series

Brian Keller Vaughan (born 1976) is an American comic book and television writer. He is best known for the comic book series Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, and Pride of Baghdad, and was a writer, story editor and producer of the television series Lost, during seasons three through five.

He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the fourth season of Lost.^[1] The writing staff was nominated for the award again at the February 2010 ceremony for their work on the fifth season.^[2]

Wired describes his comics work as "quirky, acclaimed stories that don't pander and still pound pulses". His creator-owned comics work is also characterized by "finite, meticulous, years-long story arcs", on which Vaughan comments, "That's storytelling, with a beginning, a middle, and an end. Something like Spider-Man, a book that never has a third act, that seems crazy."^[3]

Early life[link]

Brian K. Vaughan was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Rocky River and Westlake. As of 2009, Vaughan's parents, Geoffrey and Catherine Vaughan, still live in Westlake.^[4] Vaughan decided he wanted to be a writer while attending St. Ignatius High School, from which he graduated 1994. He then attended New York University to study film. While a student there, Vaughan took part in Marvel Comics's Stan-hattan Project, a class for fledgling comic book writers.^[4]

Career[link]

Vaughan's first credit was for Marvel Comics' Tales From the Age of Apocalypse #2 (December 1996). He would eventually writer for some of the highest-profile characters at Marvel, including X-Men, Spider-Man and Captain America. He would also write Batman and Green Lantern for DC Comics, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight for Dark Horse Comics.^[4]

From 2002 to 2008, Vaughan, who came to prefer writing his own characters,^[5] wrote the creator-owned monthly series Y: The Last Man, a post-apocalyptic science fiction series about the only man to survive the apparent simultaneous death of every male mammal on Earth. The series was published in sixty issues by Vertigo and collected in a series of ten paperback volumes (and later a series of five hardcover "Deluxe" volumes). The series received Eisner Awards in 2005 and 2008, and numerous other nominations.^[6][7] The film rights to the series were acquired by New Line Cinema.^[8] Vaughan wrote his own screenplay for the project,^[3] though it was reported in March 2012 that Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia were in final negotiations to write a version as well.^[9]

In 2006, Vaughan published the graphic novel Pride of Baghdad, which centers on a group of lions who escape from an Iraqi zoo after the start of the Iraq War.^[3] IGN named it the Best Original Graphic Novel of 2006, calling it a "modern classic", and lauding it for combining a tale of survival and family with a powerful analogy of war, and praising Vaughan for representing various viewpoints through the different lion characters.^[10]

From 2004 to 2010 Vaughan wrote another creator-owned series, Ex Machina, a political thriller that depicts the life of Mitchell Hundred, a former superhero known as the Great Machine who, in the wake of his actions during the September 11, 2001 attacks, is elected Mayor of New York City. The story is set during Hundred's term in office, and interwoven with flashbacks to his past as the Great Machine. Through this, the series explores both the political situations Hundred finds himself in, and the mysteries surrounding his superpowers. New Line Cinema purchased the film rights to the series in July 2005, and commissioned Vaughan to write one of the two commissioned scripts,^[11] which he was reported to be working on in 2007.^[3] Following the conclusion of Ex Machina in 2010, Vaughan reiterated his previous statement that he would concentrate on creator-owned work, saying, "I realized when I turned in this final Ex Machina script that it would be the first time I wasn't under some kind of deadline at Marvel or DC since 1996. That's a huge chunk of my life to spend with those characters. I love them, and I still read Marvel and DC's superhero books. I just think I'm better when I'm working on my own creations. When there are so many talented creators out there who are better at that stuff than me, I should leave those characters to them. I should do what I'm fortunate enough to be in the position to do, which is to create more new stuff."^[12]

Vaughan signing a poster for his creator-owned series, Saga.

Vaughan was a writer, executive story editor and producer for seasons 3 to 5 on the ABC TV series Lost, a job he earned on the basis of his work on Y: The Last Man,^[3] of which Lost co-creator and executive producer Damon Lindelof was an ardent fan. Lindelof showed that book to series show runner, executive producer Carlton Cuse. Lindelof relates, "And I told him, 'We need a guy like this on the show, but I don't think he'd ever do it. I don't think he even works in L.A.' And the next thing we knew, he was on the show." He began his stint on the series as executive story editor with the episode "The Man from Tallahassee", which premiered in March 2007. Vaughan continued as story editor on several episodes until he began writing episodes, beginning with the episode "Catch-22", which Vaughan co-wrote with Jeff Pinker, and premiered in April that year.^[4] He would write a total of 12 episodes, the last of which was the April 2009 episode "Dead Is Dead". He was first credited as a producer with the fourth season premiere "The Beginning of the End", eventually acting as producer on a total of 29 episodes. He was also a co-producer on Lost: Missing Pieces, a spinoff Internet short film series produced during the hiatus between the show's third and fourth seasons.

In November 2011 Steven Spielberg selected Vaughan to adapt the Stephen King novel Under the Dome into a television series for Showtime, which is Vaughan's first television work since Lost.^[13]

On March 14, 2012, Image Comics published the first issue of Vaughan's epic space opera/fantasy series, Saga, which he conceived to be a concept strictly relegated to comics, and not adapted to other media. Although Vaughan was a child^[14][15] when he first conceived of the ideas for the book—which owes its inspiration to Star Wars—it was not until his wife became pregnant with his second daughter that he began to write the series, which harbors parenthood as an underlying theme. The series depicts two aliens from warring races trying to survive with their newborn daughter.^[15] The book is Vaughan's first publication for Image Comics,^[16] and represents the first time he has employed third-person narration in his comics writing.^[14] The first issue sold out of its first printing ahead of its March 14 release date, with a second printing ordered for April 11, the same release date for issue #2.^[17] It received positive reviews^[18] from MTV,^[19] Ain't it Cool News,^[20] Comic Book Resources^[21] and iFanboy.^[22]

Personal life[link]

Vaughan and his wife, a playwright, live in Los Angeles.^[5] As of March 2012, his wife was pregnant with their second daughter.^[15]

Awards and nominations[link]

Wins[link]

• 2005 Eisner Award for Best New Series for Ex Machina (with Tony Harris, and Tom Feister)^[6]
• 2005 Eisner Award for Best Writer, for Y: The Last Man, Runaways, Ex Machina^[6]
• 2007 Wired magazine Rave Award^[3]
• 2008 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series for Y: The Last Man (with Pia Guerra and Jose Marzan, Jr.)^[7]
• 2008 Eisner Award for Best New Series for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight (with Joss Whedon, Georges Jeanty and Andy Owens)^[7]

Nominations[link]

• 2005 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue or One-Shot for Ex Machina #1: "The Pilot" (with Tony Harris, and Tom Feister)^[6]
• 2005 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story for Ex Machina #2-5: "State of Emergency" (with Tony Harris, and Tom Feister)^[6]
• 2005 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story for Y: The Last Man #18-20: "Safeword" (with Pia Guerra and José Marzan Jr.)^[6]
• 2005 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series for Y: The Last Man (with Pia Guerra and José Marzan Jr.)^[6]
• 2006 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue or One-Shot for Ex Machina #11: "Fortune Favors" (with Tony Harris, and Tom Feister)^[23][24]
• 2006 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story for Ex Machina #12–14: "Fact v. Fiction" (with Tony Harris and Tom Feister)^[23][24]
• 2006 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story for Y: The Last Man #37-39: "Paper Dolls" (with Pia Guerra, Goran Sudzuka, and Jose Marzan Jr.)^[23][24]
• 2006 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series for Ex Machina (with Tony Harris, and Tom Feister)^[23]
• 2006 Eisner Award for Best Writer for Ex Machina, Y: The Last Man and Runaways^[23]
• 2009 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story for Y: The Last Man, Volume 10: Whys and Wherefores.^[25]

Bibliography[link]

Marvel Comics[link]

• X-Men:
  • Tales from the Age of Apocalypse #2: "Sinister Bloodlines" (with John Francis Moore, Steve Epting and Nick J. Napolitano, 1996) collected in X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic vol.1 (tpb, 376 pages, 2006, ISBN 0-7851-1714-8)
  • Cable #43: "Broken Soldiers" (with Todd Dezago, Randy Green and Chap Yaep, 1997)
  • Wolverine #131: "It Fell to Earth" (with Todd Dezago and Cary Nord, 1998)
  • X-Men Unlimited #22: "Cat & Mouse" (with Patrick Gleason, 1999)
  • Icons: Cyclops #1-4: "Odyssey" (with Mark Texeira, 2001)
  • Icons: Chamber #1-4: "The Hollow Man" (with Lee Ferguson, 2002-2003)
  • X-Men 2 Movie Prequel: Wolverine (with Tom Mandrake, one-shot, 2003)
  • Mystique (with Jorge Lucas, Michael Ryan and Manuel Garcia, 2003-2004) collected as:
    • Drop Dead Gorgeous (collects #1-6, tpb, 144 pages, 2004, ISBN 0-7851-1240-5)
    • Tinker, Tailor, Mutant, Spy (collects #7-13, tpb, 168 pages, 2004, ISBN 0-7851-1555-2)
    • Ultimate Collection (collects #1-13, tpb, 312 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5511-2)
  • Ultimate X-Men:
    • Volume 5 (hc, 312 pages, 2005, ISBN 0-7851-2103-X) collects:
      • "The Tempest" (with Brandon Peterson, in #46-49, 2004)
      • "Cry Wolf" (with Andy Kubert, in #50-53, 2004-2005)
      • "The Most Dangerous Game" (with Stuart Immonen, in #54-57, 2005)
    • Volume 6 (hc, 256 pages, 2006, ISBN 0-7851-2104-8) collects:
      • "A Hard Lesson" (with Steve Dillon, in #58, 2005)
      • "Shock and Awe" (with Stuart Immonen, in #59-60, 2005)
      • "Ultimate Sacrifice" (with Tom Raney, in Annual #1, 2005)
      • "Magnetic North" (with Stuart Immonen, in #61-65, 2005-2006)
  • Logan #1-3 (with Eduardo Risso, 2008) collected as Wolverine: Logan (hc, 112 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3425-5; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3414-X)
• Ka-Zar Annual '97: "The Shadow of Death" (with Walter A. McDaniel, 1997)
• What If...? #112: "New York... The New Savage Land... No Escape!" (with Koi Turnbull, 1998)
• Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty (hc, 360 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4963-5) includes:
  • "The Great Pretender" (with Mark Waid and Doug Braithwaite, in #5, 1999)
  • "An Ending" (with Steve Harris, in #7, 1999)
• The Hood #1-6 (with Kyle Hotz, 2002) collected as The Hood: Blood from Stones (tpb, 144 pages, 2003, ISBN 0-7851-1058-5; hc, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2818-2)
• 411 #2: "The Clarion Call" (with Leonardo Manco, 2003)
• Runaways:
  • Volume 1 (hc, 446 pages, 2006, ISBN 0-7851-1876-4) collects:
    • "Pride and Joy" (with Adrian Alphona, in v1 #1-6, 2003)
    • "Teenage Wasteland" (with Adrian Alphona, in v1 #7-10, 2003-2004)
    • "Lost and Found" (with Takeshi Miyazawa, in v1 #11-12, 2004)
    • "The Good Die Young" (with Takeshi Miyazawa, in v1 #13-17, 2004)
    • "Eighteen" (with Takeshi Miyazawa, in v1 #18, 2004)
  • Volume 2 (hc, 320 pages, 2006, ISBN 0-7851-2358-X) collects:
    • "True Believers" (with Adrian Alphona, in v2 #1-6, 2005)
    • "Star-Crossed" (with Takeshi Miyazawa, in v2 #7-8, 2005)
    • "East Coast/West Coast" (with Adrian Alphona, in v2 #9-12, 2005-2006)
    • "Free" (with Skottie Young, in X-Men/Runaways one-shot, 2006)
  • Volume 3 (hc, 296 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2539-6) collects:
    • "Dead Ringers" (with Adrian Alphona, in v2 #13, 2006)
    • "Parental Guidance" (with Adrian Alphona, in v2 #14-18, 2006)
    • "Dead Means Dead" (with Mike Norton, in v2 #19-21, 2006)
    • "Live Fast" (with Adrian Alphona, in v2 #22-24, 2007)
• Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Negative Exposure #1-5 (with Staz Johnson, 2003-2004) collected as SM/DO:NE (tpb, 120 pages, 2004, ISBN 0-7851-1330-4)
• Dr. Strange: The Oath #1-5 (with Marcos Martín, 2006-2007) collected as Dr. Strange: The Oath (tpb, 128 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2211-7)

DC Comics[link]

• Batman False Faces (hc, 160 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1640-4; tpb, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2228-5) collects:
  • Batman: Gotham City Secret Files & Origins: "Skull-Duggery" (with Marcos Martín, 2000)
  • Wonder Woman v2 #160-161: "A Piece of You" (with Scott Kolins, 2000)
  • Batman #588-590: "Close Before Striking" (with Scott McDaniel, 2001)
  • Detective Comics #787: "Mimsy were the Borogoves" (with Rick Burchett, 2003)
• The Titans #14: "Chain of Command" (with Devin Grayson and Cully Hamner, 2000)
• Sins of Youth: Wonder Girls: "Coming of Age" (with Scott Kolins, one-shot, 2000) collected in YJ: Sins of Youth (tpb, 320 pages, 2000, ISBN 1-56389-748-2)
• Young Justice #22: "Other Interests" (with Scott Kolins, 2000)
• JLA Annual #4: "Ruins" (with Steve Scott, 2000)
• Superman Annual #12: "Whispers of the Earth" (with Francisco Gerardo Haghenbeck, Oscar Pinto and Carlo Barberi, 2000)
• Green Lantern: Circle of Fire (tpb, 224 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-56389-806-3) includes:
  • Green Lantern: Circle of Fire #1-2 (with Norm Breyfogle and Robert Teranishi, 2000)
  • Green Lantern/Adam Strange: "We Rann All Night" (with Cary Nord, one-shot, 2000)
  • Green Lantern/Atom: "Unusual Suspects" (with Trevor McCarthy, one-shot, 2000)
• 9-11 vol.2: "For Art's Sake" (with Pete Woods, graphic novel, tpb, 224 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-56389-878-0)

Vertigo[link]

• Swamp Thing:
  • Vertigo: Winter's Edge #3: "Sow and Ye Shall Reap" (with Roger Petersen, 2000)
  • Swamp Thing v3 #1-20 (with Roger Petersen and Giuseppe Camuncoli, 2000-2001)
  • Vertigo Secret Files & Origins: Swamp Thing: "Bitter Fruit" (with Cliff Chiang, 2000)
• Y: The Last Man:
  • Volume 1 (hc, 256 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1921-7) collects:
    • "Unmanned" (with Pia Guerra, in #1-5, 2002-2003)
    • "Cycles" (with Pia Guerra, in #6-10, 2003)
  • Volume 2 (hc, 320 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2235-8) collects:
    • "One Small Step" (with Pia Guerra, in #11-15, 2003)
    • "Comedy & Tragedy" (with Paul Chadwick, in #16-17, 2004)
    • "Safeword" (with Pia Guerra, in #18-20, 2004)
    • "Widow's Pass" (with Goran Parlov, in #21-23, 2004)
  • Volume 3 (hc, 320 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2578-0) collects:
    • "Tongues of Flame" (with Pia Guerra, in #24-25, 2004)
    • "Hero's Journey" (with Pia Guerra, in #26, 2004)
    • "Ring of Truth" (with Pia Guerra, in #27-31, 2004-2005)
    • "Girl on Girl" (with Goran Sudžuka, in #32-35, 2005)
    • "Boy Loses Girl" (with Pia Guerra, in #36, 2005)
  • Volume 4 (hc, 296 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2888-7) collects:
    • "Paper Dolls" (with Pia Guerra and Goran Sudžuka, in #37-39, 2005-2006)
    • "The Hour of Our Death" (with Goran Sudžuka, in #40, 2006)
    • "Buttons" (with Goran Sudžuka, in #41, 2006)
    • "1,000 Typewriters" (with Goran Sudžuka, in #42, 2006)
    • "Kimono Dragons" (with Pia Guerra and Goran Sudžuka, in #43-46, 2006)
    • "The Tin Man" (with Goran Sudžuka, in #47, 2006)
    • "Gehenna" (with Goran Sudžuka, in #48, 2006)
  • Volume 5 (hc, 320 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3051-2) collects:
    • "Motherland" (with Pia Guerra, in #49-52, 2006-2007)
    • "The Obituarist" (with Goran Sudžuka, in #53, 2007)
    • "Tragicomic" (with Goran Sudžuka, in #54, 2007)
    • "Whys and Wherefores" (with Pia Guerra, in #55-59, 2007-2008)
    • "Alas" (with Pia Guerra, in #60, 2008)
• Pride of Baghdad (with Niko Henrichon, graphic novel, hc, 136 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-4012-0314-0)

Other US publishers[link]

• Image:
  • Noble Causes: Extended Family #1: "The Widow" (with Mitch Breitweiser, 2003) collected in NC Archives vol.2 (tpb, 598 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-58240-931-5)
  • Saga #1-ongoing (with Fiona Staples, 2012-...)
• Dark Horse:
  • Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #3: "To Reign in Hell" (with Roger Petersen, 2004) collected in Michael Chabon Presents the Amazing Adventures of the Escapist vol.2 (tpb, 160 pages, 2004, ISBN 1-59307-172-8)
  • The Escapists #1-6 (with Eduardo Barreto, Philip Bond, Jason Shawn Alexander and Steve Rolston, 2006) collected as The Escapists (hc, 208 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-59307-831-5; tpb, 160 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-59582-361-1)
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #6-9: "No Future for You" (with Georges Jeanty, 2007) collected in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight vol.2 (tpb, 120 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-59307-963-X)
• Wildstorm:
  • Ex Machina:
    • Volume 1 (hc, 272 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1814-8) collects:
      • "The Pilot" (with Tony Harris, in #1, 2004)
      • "State of Emergency" (with Tony Harris, in #2-5, 2004)
      • "Tag" (with Tony Harris, in #6-10, 2005)
      • "Fortune Favors" (with Tony Harris, in #11, 2005)
    • Volume 2 (hc, 272 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2677-9) collects:
      • "Fact v. Fiction" (with Tony Harris, in #12-14, 2005)
      • "Off the Grid" (with Tony Harris, in #15-16, 2005-2006)
      • "March to War" (with Tony Harris, in #17-20, 2006)
      • "Life and Death" (with Chris Sprouse, in Special #1-2, 2006)
    • Volume 3 (hc, 272 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2800-3) collects:
      • "Smoke Smoke" (with Tony Harris, in #21-24, 2006-2007)
      • "Standalone" (with Tony Harris, in #25, 2007)
      • "Power Down" (with Tony Harris, in #26-29, 2007)
      • "Masquerade" (with John Paul Leon, in Special #3, 2007)
      • Inside the Machine (with Tony Harris, one-shot, 2007)
    • Volume 4 (hc, 272 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2845-3) collects:
      • "Ex Cathedra" (with Tony Harris, in #30-33, 2007-2008)
      • "World's Finest" (with Tony Harris, in #34, 2008)
      • "The Race" (with Tony Harris, in #35, 2008)
      • "Dirty Tricks" (with Tony Harris, in #36-39, 2008-2009)
      • "Ruthless" (with Tony Harris, in #40, 2009)
    • Volume 5 (hc, 320 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-2999-9) collects:
      • "Grassroots" (with John Paul Leon, in Special #4, 2009)
      • "Ring Out the Old" (with Tony Harris, in #41-44, 2009)
      • "Pro-Life" (with Tony Harris, in #45-49, 2009-2010)
      • "Vice" (with Tony Harris, in #50, 2010)
• Tom Strong #28: "A Fire in His Belly" (with Peter Snejbjerg, America's Best Comics, 2004) collected in Tom Strong, Book Five (hc, 136 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-4012-0624-7; tpb, 2006, ISBN 1-4012-0625-5)
• Midnighter #7: "Fait Accompli" (with Darick Robertson, 2007) collected in Midnighter vol.2 (tpb, 160 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1670-6)