Perry Moore is an American screenwriter, film director, best known as the executive producer of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and author (Hero). Moore grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia and attended Norfolk Academy. He majored in English at the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar, and later served as an intern in the White House for President Bill Clinton before starting his entertainment career in talent and development at MTV and VH1.
続きを読む
Perry Moore is an American screenwriter, film director, best known as the executive producer of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and author (Hero). Moore grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia and attended Norfolk Academy. He majored in English at the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar, and later served as an intern in the White House for President Bill Clinton before starting his entertainment career in talent and development at MTV and VH1. He worked as part of the original production team for The Rosie O'Donnell Show. Moore next worked as a development executive for the late filmmaker Ted Demme and producer Joel Stillerman before joining Walden Media, where he developed and oversaw such film projects as I Am David and the film adaptation of Anne Holm’s acclaimed novel North to Freedom. Moore is openly gay and lives in New York City with Hunter Hill (a writer for Paper magazine). In addition to his work in production and development, The C.S. Lewis Company appointed Moore to write The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion, a New York Times bestseller. A longtime fan of children's literature and comic books, Moore's first novel, Hero, the first of a fantasy series about a group of modern-day superheroes, was published by Hyperion Books on August 28, 2007. The UK edition was published 8 May 2008. The young adult novel tells the story of the world's first gay teen superhero. In May 2008, Hero won a Lambda Literary Award as the best LGBT Children's/Young Adult novel of the past year. A television series is in the works with Stan Lee. In 2009, Moore began writing a sequel to Hero.
