David Wise (writer)
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David Wise is an Emmy-award winning television and animation writer, tutored by writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Frank Herbert, Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon whilst attending the Clarion Workshop.
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[edit] Early life
When Wise was 10 years old, he appeared on I've Got a Secret with Steve Allen as host. His secret was that he wrote directed and produced his own animations. They showed a one minute clip of a compilation of his crude but creative animations. It was clear that he had ambitions to make this his career even at that tender age.
[edit] Career
[edit] Star Trek: The Animated Series
After publishing several SF short stories, Wise received his first writing job for Filmations' animated Star Trek series, writing the episode "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" in collaboration with Russell L Bates. The episode won Wise the Emmy for best children's series at the time.
[edit] Buck Rogers, Wonder Woman, He-Man and Mighty Orbots
After a successful stint of live action work, writing for Glen Larson's Buck Rogers and the Lynda Carter series Wonder Woman, Wise returned to animation in the 1980s, collaborating on many of the animated endeavours of that period such as He-Man and Mighty Orbots.
[edit] Transformers
Wise was also responsible for writing some of the most controversial and entertaining Transformers episodes of all time during the second and fourth seasons, including the Optimus Prime origin story "War Dawn", the comedy chase format of "Kremzeek", and the final three episodes of the original G1 series "The Rebirth", which Wise was forced to edit from five parts to three due to the near collapse of the franchise by that point, the result of Prime's theatrical death in Transformers: The Movie. Wise also collaborated in between on Jem and My Little Pony.
[edit] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
In 1987, Wise was given the call to story edit and write for what would become better known as the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Wise was one of the principal forces behind the reinvention of the darker toned and mature black and white MIRAGE title into a fun, bright, cheerful animated phenomenon, creating the classic phrases "Cowabunga" and spearheading the directions for the original characters like Krang, and Rocksteady and Bebop. Wise remained on board for much than its then-unbeaten lifespan of ten years (finally beaten by The Simpsons), writing and story editing 100 episodes.
Wise would leave the series after the ninth season, the first that would not involve most of the characters he had crafted and helped mold for much of his run.
[edit] Disney and Batman: The Animated Series
Wise next worked on Disney's Chip 'N' Dale Rescue Rangers, and Mighty Ducks cartoons, and also wrote three episodes for Batman: The Animated Series, "The Clock King," "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne," and the origin story of The Riddler, "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't you Rich?".
[edit] Other animated series and live-action projects
He is also credited as writer in the ill-fated Battletoads animated pilot episode. He wrote and story-edited such comic-based series as Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and Jim Lee's WildC.A.T.S. During this period he also wrote and produced the live-action film Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus, and collaborated on a short-lived animated interpretation of Zorro.
[edit] Go! Comi
He is presently CEO of Go! Comi, a publisher of Japanese Manga.
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