Producer, comic book author, and former studio executive at Fox and New Line, who took films like X-Men Origins: Wolverine to Comic-Con for Fox. He’s now launched American Original, new “nerd machine” that will provide content across multiple platforms geared to the growing genre consumer base as well as provide services to genre creators themselves.
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