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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Neumeier (often credited as just Ed Neumeier) (born 1957) is a screenwriter best known for his work on the science fiction movies RoboCop and Starship Troopers. He wrote the latter's sequel, and most recently wrote and directed Starship Troopers 3: Marauder. Neumeier studied journalism at the University of California at Santa Cruz then attended the School of Motion Picture and Television at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). After completing his bachelor's degree at UCLA, Newmeier started work in the Hollywood film business, as a production assistant on the TV series Taxi, a proof-reader for Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures; and as a junior executive at the Universal Pictures company. Neumeier wrote his first outlines and film treatments for his first movie, RoboCop, as well as "spec" scripts. He declined an offer of a vice-presidency at Universal Pictures, to develop the screenplay for RoboCop, with Michael Miner. The rights to the screenplay were bought up by the Orion Pictures company, and was granted a budget of just under $15 million. Paul Verhoeven was assigned to make the movie. Neumeier also co-produced RoboCop, which was released in movie theaters in 1987 in North America and some other locations. This movie was a success, and it drew just over 50 million dollars' worth of ticket sales in the United States, alone. The success of RoboCop also motivated the production of two sequels, RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3, and also two TV series, one live-action and one animated. Most of the creators of RoboCop had left before the production of these sequels. The first sequel to RoboCop, RoboCop 2, was planned to have its screenplay written by Neumeier. He had written a first draft of a screenplay for RoboCop 2, when a screenwriters' strike occurred. It prevented Neumeier from writing any more of the screenplay. The Orion Pictures company next decided to hire the comic book artist Frank Miller to work on his own screenplay for RoboCop 2. A decade after the first RoboCop movie was produced, Neumeier rejoined Paul Verhoeven to work on Starship Troopers, which was adapted from the novel with the same name by Robert A. Heinlein in 1959. With violence and satire thrown into a story of efforts by the human race to insure its survival (in ways similar to RoboCop at times, Starship Troopers seemed to have been more successful in Europe, Asia, etc., than in North America where it drew gross ticket sales of about $54 million at theaters, although Artforum magazine selected this film as one of the "10 most artistic [film] achievements of 1997". Neumeier also appeared in this film in the brief role of a man convicted of murder and sentenced to immediate execution. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward Neumeier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Edward Neumeier
Writer
for Writer in Godzilla vs. The Mysterians: Earth Defense Directive (1999/2000)
Suggested by aaronw
In the years prior to this story, the world lived in fear of giant monsters rather than nuclear annihlation. However, as science progressed near the end of the 20th century the tides began to turn. Scientists and government agencies developed a series of biological weapons that were capable of neutralizing or killing the monsters that plagued humanity. By 1989 they had all fallen, except for one- Godzilla. The colossal, radioactive titan was eventually brought down by a weaponized bacteria that consumed nuclear energy. This neutralized Godzilla and left him laying at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, weakened and immobilized but somehow still alive. Fast forward to the dawn of the millennium and Earth's peace is shattered yet again by a new threat- alien invaders. They came out of the sky and began waging war with the world's armies, dominating with their advanced weapons, and quite shockingly, their own giant, mind-controlled monsters Gigan and King Ghidorah. The aliens' goal is to enslave the people of Earth, turn the entire planet into their colony and plunder it's resources. Desperate, the World Peace Council settles on one drastic measure- resurrect Godzilla so he could help fight the invaders, then hope it doesn't turn on them afterwards.
