Stephen Carpenter, born in
Weatherford, Texas
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, and raised in
Kansas City, Missouri
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,
is an American writer, director, and
cinematographer
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.
Career
His screenplays include ''
The Man
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'' starring
Samuel L. Jackson and
Eugene Levy
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, ''
Blue Streak'' starring
Martin Lawrence
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,
and others.
He has written and directed several
thriller
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s, including ''
Soul Survivors'' starring
Eliza Dushku
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and
Casey Affleck
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.
In 2011, he created the
NBC
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fantasy police procedural drama television series ''
Grimm
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'', which premiered in the 2011 fall season.
It aired to March 31, 2017, for 123 episodes, running for over six seasons. ''Grimm'' was originally developed for
CBS
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, but did not end up moving forward due to the
2007–08 writers' strike. In January 2011, the series moved to NBC. It has been described as "a cop drama—with a twist ... a dark and fantastical project about a world in which characters inspired by ''
Grimms' Fairy Tales
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'' exist",
though the stories and characters inspiring the show are also drawn from other sources.
Carpenter's first novel, ''Killer'', published in 2010 on
Amazon Kindle
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was No. 1 on Amazon's Mystery/Thriller lists, and was characterized as "a blockbuster debut" by ''
Entertainment Weekly
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''. His latest book, ''Killer in the Hills'', was published by Amazon in December 2011.
, he was developing a one-hour mystery series for
NBC
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.
He is currently working on several Kindle Vella series, Killer be Killed and The Grimm Curse.
Personal life
Carpenter has been writing since 7th grade.
He graduated from the
University of California, Los Angeles
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School of Theater, Film and Television.
He lectures on writing and story structure at the
University of Southern California
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's
School of Cinematic Arts
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.
References
External links
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Living people
21st-century American screenwriters
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American male writers
American cinematographers
American male screenwriters
Film directors from Texas
Film producers from Missouri
Film producers from Texas
Mass media people from Kansas City, Missouri
Novelists from Missouri
Novelists from Texas
People from Weatherford, Texas
Screenwriters from California
Screenwriters from Missouri
Screenwriters from Texas
American television show creators
UCLA Film School alumni
USC School of Cinematic Arts faculty
Writers from Kansas City, Missouri
Year of birth missing (living people)