Eric Luke (born December 17, 1956, in Palo Alto, California) is an American writer and director, best known for writing the screenplay for
Joe Dante's 1985 film
Explorers.
Career
Film
Eric Luke began his career in film writing. Previous film work included:
Explorers for Paramount Pictures, numerous screenplays for MGM and others, and also wrote and directed the latter two films in the
Not Quite Human trilogy for the
Disney Channel. Also, he wrote a preliminary script for
.
Television
Moving to television, he eventually wrote scripts for the
Tales from the Cryptkeeper series and co-plotted the
Gargoyles pilot five-parter for The Walt Disney Company. He returned to television to Executive Produce, Story Edit and script the Fox Kids TV animated series
Xyber 9, which later aired on the
Toon Disney channel. He would later write scripts for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003).
Comics
His initial work in comics was
Project: Overkill, a story drawn by artist
Phill Norwood that appeared in
Dark Horse Presents #30. Continuing with the Dark Horse Comics company, he then wrote the entire first series (1995–98) of
Ghost, a run of 36 issues. He had also authored the Ghost Special during the summer of 1994. After Ghost ended, he moved onto the
Wonder Woman series for
DC Comics after his initial trial at writing that title's Annual #7 proved successful with editors.
Novels
His most recent work includes the novel
Interference (2012) a meta-horror audiobook about an audiobook that kills, released free on iTunes.
Podcasts
Among his current projects is the podcast Extruding America, a deadpan satire in the style of Bob and Ray.
Filmography
Television
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Tales from the Cryptkeeper (1993-1994)
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Gargoyles (1994)
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Ultraforce (1995)
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Extreme Dinosaurs (1997)
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(1999): story editor
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003-2004)
Film
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Explorers (1985)
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Not Quite Human II (1989)
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Still Not Quite Human (1992)
Bibliography
Dark Horse Comics
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Ghost #1–36, Special #1 (1995–1998)
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