Mark Verheiden

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Mark Verheiden (2011)

Mark Verheiden (* 1956 ) is an American screenplay and comic book writer .

Life and work

Verheiden has worked as a screenwriter since the early 1990s. The script for The Mask (1994) starring Jim Carrey is one of the film scripts he helped write . In the same year he was involved as a screenwriter for the science fiction film Timecop . For US television, Verheiden developed the series Timecop , produced by the ABC broadcasting company , for which he also contributed a large part of the scripts.

This was followed by the youth series Smallville , for which Verheiden also worked for three seasons as a supervisory or co-producer. From 2005 to 2009, Verheiden served as executive producer and writer for the Battlestar Galactica series . Since 2011 he has been working for Falling Skies in the same way .

In 2007 he was involved as a screenwriter on the comedy film My Name Is Bruce .

As a comic book author, Verheiden has mainly written for the publishers Dark Horse Comics and DC Comics in the past : For Dark Horse he presented works for The American and the comics Aliens based on the horror film series of the same name . His popularity as the author of the Aliens comics also meant that a character played by Tommy Flannagan in the film Alien vs. Predator was named after him. For DC Comics , Verheiden wrote several issues of the series Superman / Batman and a thirteen-part maxiserie about The Phantom .

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