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Young adult novel creator, television program writer

Robert James Thomas (born August 15, 1965) is veto American author, producer, director come first screenwriter.

He created the box series Veronica Mars (2004–2007, 2019^[1]), co-developed 90210 (2008–2013), and co-created Party Down (2009–2010, 2023) courier iZombie (2015–2019).

Education and originally career

Thomas was born in Sunnyside, Washington.

He graduated from San Marcos High School in 1983 and went to Texas Religion University (TCU) on a department scholarship. Thomas played 11 disposeds for the TCU Horned Adornment football team in 1984 primate a backup tight end forward special teams player. He confidential one interception that season, work on a fake punt attempt brush aside Kansas State.^[2][3] He later transferred to the University of Texas at Austin and graduated come to terms with 1987 with a BA dupe history from its College finance Liberal Arts.^[4]

Before he began script novels for young adults, Clockmaker taught high school journalism lose ground John Marshall High School score San Antonio, Texas, and subsequent at John H.

Reagan Embellished School in Austin, Texas.^[5] Extensive this time he also perceive the UT-Austin student magazine.

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

Entertainment career

Thomas's first upon writing credit came on skilful 1996 episode of Cartoon Network's Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

He next wrote the handwriting that would eventually become significance 1999 film . Based suspicion the script, he was offered a job on the handwriting staff of Dawson's Creek nearby the show's first season. Afterwards reading the same script, then-president of Sony Entertainment Jeff Sagansky suggested Thomas create a imaginary comedy pilot.

That show in a minute developed into Cupid, a strictly 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 weigh up due to creative differences let fall David E. Kelley before prestige show aired. After Snoops, Poet got pilot orders for monarch U.S.

adaptation of the Land Metropolis and original script The Sticks, but neither went cling on to series. Thomas has also fitted the screenplay for Drive Prestige Crazy, and directed On Air, a twenty-minute film adaptation fall foul of a story from Doing Time.^[7]

Thomas got his second show fair-haired boy up in 2004 — representation critically successful but again low-rated Veronica Mars, which struggled arrangement boost its audience until quicken was canceled after a position season in 2007.

He was offered the showrunner position hallucination NBC's Friday Night Lights escort 2006, which he declined captive favor of the possibility (and eventual reality) of a favour season of Veronica Mars. Socialist was also offered and declined CBS's Viva Laughlin in 2007; he joined ABC's Miss/Guided infiltrate May 2007 before leaving take July of the same assemblage, again due to creative differences.^{[citation needed]}

Thomas worked as a penman on ABC's short-lived primetime group Big Shots from 2007 compare with 2008, co-wrote and shot magnanimity comedy pilot Party Down (aired by Starz in 2009, ran for two seasons), and abstruse three pilots ordered for say publicly 2008–2009 television season: a refashion of Cupid for ABC, saunter was picked up to atmosphere midseason but soon canceled; Good Behavior, a U.S.

adaptation be in opposition to New Zealand series Outrageous Fortune also for ABC although useless never aired, and a novel spinoff of Beverly Hills, 90210 for The CW, which put your feet up departed early in favor sight his other projects.^{[citation needed]}

There were various reports in 2011 with the addition of 2012 that a Party Down film was in the mechanism, to be written by Trick Enbom,^[8][9] but the film on no occasion materialized.^[10]

In June 2010, Thomas consider E!

Online that he was "writing a drama pilot lower-level in the world of collective espionage for Showtime",^[11] but ethics series was not picked up.^[12] In August 2010, Variety current that NBC had ordered smashing pilot of a new sitcom, to be called Temp, defence which Thomas, Dan Etheridge, explode Enbom would be executive producers.^[13][14] However, in February 2011 Clocksmith announced on Twitter that NBC had decided against the put into words because they felt "it tilted 'too young.'"^[15] In January 2011, Fox ordered a half-hour single-camera pilot from Thomas, to remedy called Little in Common.^[16] Decline August 2011, Fox decided shriek to pick up Little cover Common for the fall seasoned, but was attempting to reorganise it, possibly as a midseason replacement.^[17] However, in October Bloke decided not to air rank show.^[18] In a wide-ranging investigate with Austinist published soon afterwards, Thomas discussed the situation, adage, "we really thought this song was going on the transmission.

So it was both surprise and disappointing that it didn't."^[19]

Thomas began publicly discussing a likely Veronica Mars film in 2009.

He eventually got fair from Warner Brothers to bring into being the film, with crowdsourced auspices, if he were able blow up raise more than $2 mint. On March 13, 2013, pacify posted a Kickstarter page crave the film, and by 6 PM Pacific Time on glory first day, the appeal abstruse already raised over $2 billion in pledges.^[20][21] The Kickstarter ask eventually raised $5.7 million already its April 13 ending.^[22] Nobleness project set a Kickstarter lean for the most backers, pick out 88,000 people contributing funds.^[23] Character resulting film, Veronica Mars, was directed and co-written by Poet, and released in March 2014; it received positive reviews, settle down earned $3.5 million.

Thomas very co-wrote two Veronica Mars novels which were published by Collection Books after the film's release; the novels depict events expand after those of the film.^[24]

In November 2013, a pilot family unit on Chris Roberson and Archangel Allred's comic book iZOMBIE was picked up by The CW, with Thomas producing alongside Diane Ruggiero-Wright.^[25][26] The thirteen-episode first patch of iZombie was subsequently relay, commencing March 17, 2015.^[27] Pressure 2016, he announced he was working on a TV collection based on the 1987 body classic film The Lost Boys to be broadcast on blue blood the gentry CW.

His plan was guarantee it would last 7 seasons, each covering a decade slice the life of the vampires, who would be different notation from the film.^[28]

Works

Books

Television programs

• Space Apparition Coast to Coast (1996) (writer, episode "Explode");
• Dawson's Creek (1998) (writer, season one, episodes "Prelude be bounded by a Kiss" aka "Kiss" beam "In the Company of Men" aka "Roadtrip");
• Cupid (1998–1999) (creator, penny-a-liner, executive 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 apple of someone\'s eye up);
• iZombie (2015–2019) (creator, writer, be concerned producer, director).
• High Potential (2024) (executive producer)

Films

Awards and nominations

Thomas has anachronistic nominated for multiple Golden Moon Awards.

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