Robert Mandell (film producer)

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Robert Mandell
Occupation(s)Film director, producer, screenwriter

Robert Mandell is an American animated series and film writer, director and producer. [1] Mandell headed New Frontier Productions/New Frontier Entertainment and Red Sky Entertainment. He is now the head of the company Voyager.

Robert Mandell is best known as the creator, producer and co-writer of the 1986–1987 animated series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (the "Collection1" edition of Galaxy Rangers features a 14-minute video interview with Mandell about his career as well as an audio commentary track [2] ). Later he created the 1995–1996 animated series Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders and wrote or co-wrote and directed its episodes. He was also a writer and executive producer for the American version of Thunderbirds 2086 (in association with Barry Gray [3] ) and an executive producer for The King and I and the Ace Ventura, Pet Detective animated TV series, among other credits. [4]

As of 2011, Mandell has been the Chief Creative Officer and CEO of the company Red Sky Entertainment (a subsidiary of Blue Wave Entertainment), [5] whose properties include Galaxy Rangers, Heavy Metal Pulp (a series of illustrated novels published by Tor in cooperation with Heavy Metal magazine) and the Avalon: Web of Magic novel series. Projects included producing a TV series based on Larry Niven's novel Ringworld, as well as a two-volume manga adaptation based on Ringworld, [6] a film adaptation of the Avalon book series, [7] and a re-imagined live action TV series based on the Galaxy Rangers.

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References

  1. ↑ A Cult Phenomenon. Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers. Vol. 35. August 1987. pp. 52–53. Archived from the original on October 30, 2014. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  2. ↑ "DVD Review – Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers: The Collection Volume 1". Dvdreview.com. June 6, 2008. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ BARRY GRAY | TV GREATS | A TELEVISION HEAVEN BIOGRAPHY Archived April 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "Robert Mandell". IMDb.
  5. ↑ "Red Sky Entertainment". June 13, 2011. Archived from the original on June 13, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ↑ "Ringworld: The Graphic Novel". Macmillan. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Minds Eye joins 'Avalon' team". Variety. September 27, 2012. Retrieved May 15, 2014.


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