It was a dark night, the darkest of nights. The McCoy family was on their way home from the local theatre when a man whom would change their lives forever stepped out of the shadows… Oh, that’s not quite right, let me try it again. Blasted from the planet Krypton young Sam-El’s rocket ship crashed in rural Nebraska where he was raised by the kindly McCoys…no that’s not quite right either, we’ll get back to that later.
A product of the VHS era, Sam spent his youth watching the tapes of Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Tim Burton, Richard Donner, George Lucas (and Irvin Kirschner and Richard Marquand respectively) and Paul Verhoeven over and over and over again until even tracking didn’t work anymore and he had to get a new tape. But ultimately his real love of movies originates at the historic Rivoli Theatre in Seward, Nebraska where during high school Sam would work.
Sam’s love of movies led him to the University of Nebraska where he received a degree in Film and New Media. He worked for the local PBS where he had the opportunity to be Associate Producer on the Emmy winning, Dream Like a Champion documentary about the Nebraska volleyball team and as an assistant editor for the program NOVA. This is Sam’s fourth collaboration with April and this is his first feature length script to be produced.
Sam currently works at Live Yes Studios in Lincoln, Nebraska where he shares his love movies and comics while serving the artists with developmental disabilities at the studio. Sam is thrilled to be having his script produced and is amazed at the amount of money that has been raised for something a little kid from small town Nebraska wrote. Now back to that origin, Sam was just a small time comedian and had to take a side job as the Red Hood…