Andrew Cosby

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Andrew Cosby is an American comic book creator, film producer, and screenwriter. He is the co-creator of the SyFy TV series Eureka, and the co-founder of Boom! Studios.

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Career

Comics

Cosby worked at Malibu Comics from 1993 to 1995, at which time he left the company to pursue a career in films and was involved producing the feature film adaptation of Mage by comic book creator Matt Wagner with Spyglass Entertainment, and had various projects with Mike Medavoy (Phoenix Pictures), Mark Canton (The Canton Company), Akiva Goldsman, and Casey Silver.

In 2005, Cosby launched BOOM! Studios, [1] creating their first published comic, Zombie Tales.[ citation needed ]

Working with Mike Richardson and Dark Horse, Cosby set up Damn Nation at MTV Films/Paramount Pictures, a comic book Cosby created and was subsequently attached to write and produce. [2]

Feature films

Cosby produced the 2013 film 2 Guns . [3] He has produced the film adaptation of Mage , by Matt Wagner, [4] Talent, and Tag with Marc Platt Productions and Universal Studios, Damn Nation at MTV Films/Paramount Pictures, [5] The Nightmare of Hugo Baring with Mike Medavoy (Phoenix Pictures), [6] The Foundation at Paramount, Kringle with Mark Canton (The Canton Company), Akiva Goldsman, Creature Tech with Fox, Unusual Suspects with Lloyd Levin and Casey Silver, [7] Saints Row with Lloyd Levin, based on the THQ video game, The Untamed, based on the Stranger Comics graphic novel, and Among the Dead with Nick Spicer and XYZ Films. Cosby received sole script credit for 2019's Hellboy film, a reboot of the Hellboy film series. Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola also contributed to the script, though both went uncredited. [8] In October 2017, it was announced that Cosby would write the script for a film adaptation of the graphic novel Silver. [9]

Television

Cosby co-created the UPN horror series Haunted and is the co-creator of the Syfy TV show Eureka , the series ran for five seasons ending in July 2012. [10]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryWorkResult
2020 Golden Raspberry Awards [11] Worst Screenplay Hellboy Nominated

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References

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  2. ↑ McNary, Dave (2005-07-28). "MTV Films makes a 'Damn' plan". Variety. Archived from the original on 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
  3. ↑ "Denzel Washington in Talks to Star in '2 Guns' with Mark Wahlberg for Universal". 7 February 2012.
  4. ↑ Unusual Suspects at Hollywood.com Archived March 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
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  6. ↑ March 2003 Script Sales
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  9. ↑ Fleming, Mike Jr. (5 October 2017). "'Silver' Mettle For 'Hellboy' Scribe Andrew Cosby". Deadline. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
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