Micah Wright

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Micah Ian Wright (born February 7, 1974) is an American writer who has worked in film, television, animation, video games and comic books.

Biography[edit]

Biographic detail that Wright has posted on-line about himself^[1] claims that he was the child of a parent in the US Navy and lived overseas. Wright was born in Lubbock, Texas,^[2] and graduated from the University of Arizona with degrees in political science and creative writing. While at school, he was involved in a weekly sketch comedy show named Comedy Corner where he started as a writer and eventually became a performer.^{[citation needed]}

After graduating and moving to Los Angeles, Wright got a job at Nickelodeon Animation and was soon hired to write on The Angry Beavers. Episodes that Wright wrote were nominated for a Daytime Emmy in Sound Mixing and for an Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Daytime Animated Television Program.^[3] After Wright finished work on The Angry Beavers, he created a pilot for Nickelodeon, Constant Payne, an anime-inspired Dieselpunk science fiction show, with an aesthetic inspired by "Russian wood-block propaganda posters of the 1920s and 30's."^[4] Since 2001, Wright has worked primarily in the field of video game writing. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, west, where he is the chair of the Video Game Writers Caucus. He also served as the vice-chair of the Native American and World Indigenous Writers Committee, and on the steering committee of the Animation Writers Caucus, and was on the Guild Negotiating Committee is 2014.^{[citation needed]}

In 2007, Wright and his writing partner, Jay Lender, were "instrumental" in creating the WGA's first ever Video Game Writing Award as part of the traditional film and television Writers Guild Awards. According to the WGA, the award is designed "to encourage storytelling excellence in videogames, to improve the status of writers, and to begin to encourage uniform standards within the gaming industry, to spotlight a wide range of quality work by video game writers, raising their profiles and validating their contributions to this rapidly maturing medium".^[5]

His graphic novel Duster was released in 2015.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2016, the film They're Watching which he co-wrote and co-directed with Jay Lender was released day-and-date to theaters and on video on demand services by Amplify Releasing. It is currently available on Netflix.^{[citation needed]}

Controversy[edit]

Shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Wright published an anti-war protest book, You Back the Attack, We'll Bomb Who We Want! The book, a satirical collection of old military propaganda posters repainted to feature modern anti-war messages, featured an introduction where Wright claimed to have been a former United States Army Ranger Sergeant, who experienced combat in Operation Just Cause, the 1989 invasion of Panama (when he would have been 15 years old). Wright gave a radio interview on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.^[6] In 2003, gossip columnist Richard Leiby wrote a two-page article extolling Wright's poster work for The Washington Post.^[7] Wright's credentials were immediately questioned by real Rangers who contacted Leiby. A year later, when Wright learned Leiby was writing an exposé questioning his military service he confessed and apologized online.^[8][9]

Bibliography and filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

• They're Watching (2016)^[10]

Video games[edit]

• Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), Electronic Arts^[11]
• Shadow Ops: Red Mercury, (2004), Atari
• The Dukes of Hazzard: The Return of the General Lee (2004), Ubisoft^[11]
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), 2K Games
• Friends: The One With All the Trivia (2005), Warner Bros. Home Video
• The Sopranos: The Road To Respect, (2006), THQ
• HUXLEY (2008), Webzen
• Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (2008), THQ
• Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed (2008), THQ
• Night at the Museum 2 (2008), Brash
• League of Legends (2008), Riot Games
• Robocalypse (2008), VOGSTER^[12]
• Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid (2009), Ngmoco
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Activision
• Big League Sports Summer (2009), Activision
• Robocalypse: Mobile Destruction (2009), VOGSTER
• Robocalypse: Beaver Defense (2009), VOGSTER
• Raving Rabbids Travel in Time (2010), Ubisoft
• PlayStation Move Heroes (2010), SCEA/Nihilistic Software
• Skullgirls (2011), Reverge Labs
• Call of Duty: Black Ops II (2012), Activision
• TheBlu (2016), WeVR

Books of political commentary[edit]

• You Back the Attack, We'll Bomb Who We Want! (ISBN 1-58322-584-6), Seven Stories Press, (2003)
• If You're Not a Terrorist, Then Stop Asking Questions! (ISBN 1-4134-9276-2), Xlibris, (2004)
• Surveillance Means Security!! (ISBN 1-58322-741-5), Seven Stories Press, (2006)

Comics[edit]

• Stormwatch: Team Achilles #1–6 (of the ongoing series) (2003), Wildstorm; with Whilce Portacio
• Stormwatch: Team Achilles No. 7 (of the ongoing series) (2003), Wildstorm; with Mark Texeira
• Stormwatch: Team Achilles No. 8 (of the ongoing series) (2003), Wildstorm; with Tomm Coker
• Stormwatch: Team Achilles #9–10 (of the ongoing series) (2003), Wildstorm; with Whilce Portacio
• Stormwatch: Team Achilles No. 11 (of the ongoing series) (2004–2005), Wildstorm; with C. P. Smith and Bill Sienkiewicz
• Stormwatch: Team Achilles #12–19 (of the ongoing series) (2004–2005), Wildstorm; with C. P. Smith
• Stormwatch: Team Achilles #20–23 (of the ongoing series) (2004–2005), Wildstorm, with Clement Sauve
• Coup D'état: Team Achilles No. 2 (of the 4-issue Coup D'état limited series) (2004), Wildstorm; with Carlos D'Anda
• Vigilante No. 1 & 2 DC Comics; with Carlos D'Anda, canceled by the publisher prior to publication
• "Duster" Original Graphic Novel with Jay Lender and Cristian Mallea (2013)

Short stories[edit]

• Stormwatch: Team Achilles, 8-page short story in Wizard: The Comics Magazine, No. 129 (2003); with Whilce Portacio
• Grifter, 8-page short story in Wildstorm Summer Special 2003 (2003), Wildstorm; with Carlos D'Anda
• Jukko, 8-page short story in Eye of the Storm Annual 2004 (2004), Wildstorm; with Tomm Coker

Collected editions[edit]

• Stormwatch: Team Achilles Volume 1, collecting the short story from Wizard and #'s 1–6, Wildstorm (2003); with Whilce Portacio (ISBN 1-4012-0103-2)
• Stormwatch: Team Achilles Volume 2, collecting SW:TA #7–12, Wildstorm, (2003); with Portacio, Texeira, Coker, and C. P. Smith (ISBN 1-4012-0123-7)
• Stormwatch: Team Achilles Volume 3, collecting SW:TA #13–19, Wildstorm, (2004); with C. P. Smith (ISBN 1-4012-0289-6)
• Wildstorm: Coup D'état collecting the Coup D'état mini-series, Wildstorm, (2004); (ISBN 1-4012-0570-4)

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Personal homepage
• IMDb listing