- Edward Summer
has written screenplays for Little Nemo In Slumberland (an animated feature that was one of the best-selling children's videos in its year of release), the original script for Conan, The Barbarian (which was subsequently revised by Oliver Stone and John Milius), several screenplays including The New Atlantis for Gary Kurtz ( producer of Star Wars. The Empire Strikes Back, American Graffitti), two Mickey Mouse scripts for The Disney Company, and screenplays for Teefr and Teedie and Me.
He conceived and Associate
Produced and wrote the firstdraft screenplay for Conan, The Barbarian
which
was instrumental in jump starting Arnold Schwarzenegger's career.. He directed
the international award-winning short film
Item 72-D and was a principal
director-cameraman on Martin Scorsese's Street Scenes 1970. Summer
also wrote the pilot of the soon-to-be-broadcast BBC British/Russian animated
TV series Global Bear Rescue. He has worked closely with George
Lucas, Martin Scorsese, John Milius, Oliver Stone, Jim Henson, Joe Dante,
John Landis, Jon Davison, Jonathan Kaplan, Ken Friedman, Gary Kurtz, Edward
R. Pressman and many other producers and directors in Hollywood and England.
(Photograph:
L to R: Edward Summer, Frank Frazetta, George Lucas)
He was Designer and Editor of the much-praised break-through book Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge McDuck: His Life and Times. (Uncle $crooge can be ordered instantly from Amazon.Com). Summer founded The Dinosaur Times, an internationally circulated publication for Dinosaur fans and its WorldWideWeb successor The Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette (visit D.I.G.). He has written articles for many magazines including The Electric Company, Films in Review, The Perfect Vision, The Absolute Sound, Circus, Starlog, Time, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Home Theatre Magazine, The Monster Times, and many others. He has contributed pieces to The New York Times and writes regularly for the science magazines Skeptical Inquirer and Skeptical Briefs.
Having just finished Bear Bob's Story (Book 3) in February 1999, he is working on the complete series of seven Teefr books: Teefr is the sixth book, and the next one to be finished is Teedie and Me, the fourth book of the cycle. Sometimes these stories are called The Teefr Saga and other times The Teddy Tales. . He has just completed Suzanne Versus The Ants, an illustrated children's book.
Current screen projects include This End UP a fantasy adventure, September Song, a drama. Other unproduced screenplays include The Turncoats, Starship Under, and The Crock of Gold. Mr. Summer is also producing a motion picture based upon the life of Sugar Ray Robinson, the world-famed boxer. He is consulting on a new animated series about The Marx Brothers.
Mr. Summer lives in New York City and would very much like enough room to keep a cat.
