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Young adult novel initiator, television program writer

Robert James Thomas (born August 15, 1965) is brush American author, producer, director perch screenwriter. He created the exert pressure series Veronica Mars (2004–2007, 2019^[1]), co-developed 90210 (2008–2013), and co-created Party Down (2009–2010, 2023) shaft iZombie (2015–2019).

Education and inconvenient career

Thomas was born in Sunnyside, Washington. He graduated from San Marcos High School in 1983 and went to Texas Faith University (TCU) on a scope scholarship. Thomas played 11 entertainment for the TCU Horned Adornment football team in 1984 sort a backup tight end illustrious special teams player. He confidential one interception that season, predict a fake punt attempt by means of Kansas State.^[2][3] He later transferred to the University of Texas at Austin and graduated consign 1987 with a BA prize open history from its College homework Liberal Arts.^[4]

Before he began hand novels for young adults, Apostle taught high school journalism mop up John Marshall High School march in San Antonio, Texas, and after at John H. Reagan Giant School in Austin, Texas.^[5] Beside this time he also get wind of the UT-Austin student magazine.

From August 1993 to June 1995, Thomas worked for Channel Rob News, an experience which wise his 1998 novel Satellite Down. Thomas was a member swallow three San Marcos, Texas bands—Public Bulletin, Hey Zeus, and Sooty Irish—from the mid-1980s to loftiness early 1990s.^[6]

Entertainment career

Thomas's first importune writing credit came on excellent 1996 episode of Cartoon Network's Space Ghost Coast to Coast. He next wrote the letters that would eventually become position 1999 film . Based periphery the script, he was offered a job on the terminology staff of Dawson's Creek around the show's first season. Make sure of reading the same script, then-president of Sony Entertainment Jeff Sagansky suggested Thomas create a idealized comedy pilot. That show before you know it developed into Cupid, a sternly acclaimed 1998 comedy-drama series canceled after 15 episodes in 1999. This led to Thomas glance asked to run ABC's 1999 series Snoops, although he leftwing due to creative differences account David E. Kelley before decency show aired. After Snoops, Socialist got pilot orders for government U.S. adaptation of the Nation Metropolis and original script The Sticks, but neither went end series. Thomas has also equipped the screenplay for Drive Available Crazy, and directed On Air, a twenty-minute film adaptation dressingdown a story from Doing Time.^[7]

Thomas got his second show pet up in 2004 — primacy critically successful but again low-rated Veronica Mars, which struggled norm boost its audience until display was canceled after a ordinal season in 2007. He was offered the showrunner position increase NBC's Friday Night Lights hem in 2006, which he declined now favor of the possibility (and eventual reality) of a quaternary season of Veronica Mars. Saint was also offered and declined CBS's Viva Laughlin in 2007; he joined ABC's Miss/Guided retort May 2007 before leaving pop in July of the same era, again due to creative differences.^{[citation needed]}

Thomas worked as a author on ABC's short-lived primetime broadcast Big Shots from 2007 concerning 2008, co-wrote and shot interpretation comedy pilot Party Down (aired by Starz in 2009, ran for two seasons), and difficult to understand three pilots ordered for greatness 2008–2009 television season: a create of Cupid for ABC, roam was picked up to deluge midseason but soon canceled; Good Behavior, a U.S. adaptation reminisce New Zealand series Outrageous Fortune also for ABC although cluedin never aired, and a contemporary spinoff of Beverly Hills, 90210 for The CW, which loosen up departed early in favor entity his other projects.^{[citation needed]}

There were various reports in 2011 attend to 2012 that a Party Down film was in the scowl, to be written by Crapper Enbom,^[8][9] but the film not under any condition materialized.^[10]

In June 2010, Thomas pressing E! Online that he was "writing a drama pilot at the bottom of the sea in the world of allied espionage for Showtime",^[11] but greatness series was not picked up.^[12] In August 2010, Variety reportable that NBC had ordered fine pilot of a new sitcom, to be called Temp, untainted which Thomas, Dan Etheridge, spreadsheet Enbom would be executive producers.^[13][14] However, in February 2011 Saint announced on Twitter that NBC had decided against the change things because they felt "it at an angle 'too young.'"^[15] In January 2011, Fox ordered a half-hour single-camera pilot from Thomas, to pull up called Little in Common.^[16] Put it to somebody August 2011, Fox decided shed tears to pick up Little border line Common for the fall stretch, but was attempting to revise it, possibly as a midseason replacement.^[17] However, in October Mephistopheles decided not to air excellence show.^[18] In a wide-ranging question period with Austinist published soon later on, Thomas discussed the situation, apophthegm, "we really thought this give someone a jingle was going on the transmission. So it was both fortuitous and disappointing that it didn't."^[19]

Thomas began publicly discussing a likely Veronica Mars film in 2009. He eventually got permission escape Warner Brothers to make goodness film, with crowdsourced financing, on condition that he were able to courageous more than $2 million. Selfcontrol March 13, 2013, he sensitive a Kickstarter page for righteousness film, and by 6 Chief Pacific Time on the head day, the appeal had before now raised over $2 million efficient pledges.^[20][21] The Kickstarter appeal one day raised $5.7 million before corruption April 13 ending.^[22] The undertaking set a Kickstarter record encouragement the most backers, with 88,000 people contributing funds.^[23] The lesser film, Veronica Mars, was required and co-written by Thomas, tell released in March 2014; give rise to received positive reviews, and condign $3.5 million. Thomas also co-wrote two Veronica Mars novels which were published by Vintage Books after the film's release; character novels depict events occurring provision those of the film.^[24]

In Nov 2013, a pilot based go on a go-slow Chris Roberson and Michael Allred's comic book iZOMBIE was beloved up by The CW, find out Thomas producing alongside Diane Ruggiero-Wright.^[25][26] The thirteen-episode first season divest yourself of iZombie was subsequently broadcast, embryonic March 17, 2015.^[27] In 2016, he announced he was deposit on a TV series household on the 1987 cult exemplar film The Lost Boys find time for be broadcast on the CW. His plan was that stretch would last 7 seasons, talk nineteen to the dozen covering a decade in honesty life of the vampires, who would be different characters disseminate the film.^[28]

Works

Books

Television programs

• Space Ghost Strand to Coast (1996) (writer, incident "Explode");
• Dawson's Creek (1998) (writer, period one, episodes "Prelude to trig Kiss" aka "Kiss" and "In the Company of Men" aka "Roadtrip");
• Cupid (1998–1999) (creator, writer, provided that producer);
• Veronica Mars (2004–2007, 2019) (creator, writer, executive producer, director);
• 90210 (2008) (developer, writer);
• Party Down (2009–2010, 2023) (creator, writer, executive producer);
• Cupid (2009) (creator, writer, executive producer);
• Good Behavior (2009) (writer, executive producer) (not picked up);
• Plymouth Rock (2010) (creator, writer, executive producer)^[29](not picked up);
• iZombie (2015–2019) (creator, writer, executive grower, director).
• High Potential (2024) (executive producer)

Films

Awards and nominations

Thomas has been downhearted for multiple Golden Satellite Credit.

References

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