Christos N. "Chris" Gage is a Greek-American screenwriter and comic book writer. He is known for his work on the films The Breed and Teenage Caveman, and for the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Numbers. In the comics industry, he has done considerable work on the titles Angel & Faith, Avengers Academy, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Superior Spider-Man, and has written tie-in books for the "Civil War" and "World War Hulk" storylines.
Early life
Christos N. Gage is the son of author and New York Times investigative journalist Nicholas Gage. He was born in New York, and grew up in Athens, Greece, and then North Grafton, Massachusetts. He attended Brown University where he majored in American Civilization. He received his MFA in Screenwriting from the AFI Conservatory.
Career
Film and television
Gage, with Ruth Fletcher Gage, co-wrote the 2001 film The Breed, starring Adrian Paul, Bai Ling and Bokeem Woodbine, for Sony/Screen Gems and Starz. He wrote and served as associate producer on the film Teenage Caveman for HBO; independent filmmaker Larry Clark directed and Stan Winston produced. In 2010, also with Ruth Fletcher Gage, he wrote the film Paradox, starring Kevin Sorbo, for SyFy UK.
Gage and Ruth Fletcher Gage co-wrote episodes of the TV shows Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Numbers. SVU showrunner Neal Baer cites one of their episodes, "Mercy", as "Dick Wolf's favorite episode". Wolf called it "an incredible paradigm for where the show should be going."
Comics
Gage broke into the comic book industry in December 2004 with the DC Comics miniseries Deadshot. One of his earliest Marvel Comics works was a Union Jack mini-series with Mike Perkins.
For Wildstorm Productions Gage wrote The Authority: Prime with Darick Robertson. His subsequent Wildstorm work included Wildstorm: Armageddon, Wildstorm: Revelations and Wildcats: Worlds End which was part of a relaunch of a number of titles.
During Marvel's "Civil War" storyline, he wrote the best-selling tie-in book Iron Man/Captain America: Casualties Of War. He also wrote the miniseries World War Hulk: X-Men whose first issue sold in excess of 85,000 copies. Gage wrote the tie-in book Avengers: The Initiative, co-writing with Dan Slott beginning with issue #8, and eventually becoming the sole writer for the series with #20. He continued on through the conclusion of the run with #35. Spinning out of that series' storylines was Avengers Academy, which Gage launched with artist Mike McKone. That series introduced several new teen characters to the Marvel Universe and ran for forty issues.
In March 2008 Gage wrote the four-issue miniseries G.I. Joe: Cobra for IDW Publishing. That same year he wrote the first seven issues of The Man with No Name for Dynamite Entertainment, which stars the iconic Western character portrayed by Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars and its two sequels. The storyline is set after the events of the sequel The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Later that year he wrote Absolution for Avatar Press, which focuses on a superhero actions after he develops post-traumatic stress disorder.
In 2010 Gage wrote the original graphic novel Area 10, a crime thriller about an emotionally disturbed New York police detective who, while on the case of a bizarre serial killer, begins to exhibit psychic abilities after his head is impaled by a screwdriver.
In 2011 Gage was approached to write Angel & Faith, the canonical continuation of the adventures of Joss Whedon’s Buffyverse characters, as part of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Nine. The title was nominated for a Harvey Award for Best New Series. Following that book’s 25-issue run, the creative team took over the Buffy The Vampire Slayer title, beginning with Season 10 in 2014.
In July 2012 Gage published the original graphic novel Sunset, through Top Cow/Minotaur Press, a noir tale of an aged mob enforcer facing the demons of his violent past. As of 2012 Gage and his wife Ruth were working on the historical epic The Lion Of Rora for Oni Press.
From 2011 to 2013 Gage and Dan Slot co-wrote issues 661 - 662, 664 and 695 - 697 of The Amazing Spider-Man. After that series ended with the death of Peter Parker, a new series, Superior Spider-Man was launched in 2013. During that series' run, Gage co-wrote 10 sporadic issues with Dan Slott. He also wrote the "Inhumanity" tie-in, Inhumanity: Superior Spider-Man.
In 2014 Gage and Dan Slott co-wrote two of the stories in the anthologized first issue of the relaunched Amazing Spider-Man.
Video games
Gage scripted the 2011 console video game Captain America: Super Soldier, the mobile game Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the console game The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Awards and nominations
- 2003 SHINE Award nomination for Best Scene Stealer (for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
- 2007 Comics Nexus Award winner for Best Breakout Talent.
- 2008 GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Comic Book (for Midnighter)
- 2012 Harvey Award nomination for Best New Series (for Angel & Faith)
Personal life
Gage is married to Ruth Fletcher Gage, with whom he often collaborates in screenwriting projects.
Works
TV and film
- The Breed (2001)
- Teenage Caveman (2002)
- Law and Order: Special Victims Unit:
- "Mercy" (2003)
- "Ritual" (2004)
- Numb3rs: "Bones of Contention " (2005)
- Re\Visioned: Tomb Raider: "A Complicated Woman" (with Jim Lee, 2007)
- Paradox (2010)
Video games
- Captain America: Super Soldier (2011)
- Iron Man 3: The Official Game (2013)
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier - The Official Game (2014)
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Comics
- Deadshot (with pencils by Steven Cummings and inks by Jimmy Palmiotti, 5-issue mini-series, DC Comics, 2005)
- Legends of the Dark Knight (DC Comics):
- #201-203: "Cold Case" (with pencils by Ron Wagner and inks by Bill Reinhold, 2006)
- #214: "Superstitious and Cowardly" (with Phil Winslade, 2007)
- Union Jack (with pencils by Mike Perkins and inks by Drew Hennessy, 4-issue mini-series, November 2006 - February 2007, Marvel Comics, tpb London Falling, 96 pages, July 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2181-1)
- Worldstorm (with Doug Mahnke, 2-issue mini-series, Wildstorm, 2006â€"2007)
- Stormwatch: Post Human Division #1-12 (Wildstorm, 2006-2007) collected as:
- Volume 1 (with Doug Mahnke, tpb collects #1-4 & 6-7, 160 pages, July 2007, ISBN 978-1-4012-1500-2)
- Volume 2 (with Matthew Dow Smith and Andy Smith, collects #5 and #8-12, 144 pages, April 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1678-1)
- World War Hulk: X-Men #1-3 (with Andrea Di Vito, mini-series, Marvel Comics)
- Midnighter #8 (with John Paul Leon, Wildstorm, June 2007)
- Annihilation: Conquest - Quasar (with Mike Lilly, Marvel Comics, Septemberâ€"December 2007, tpb, January 2008, 96 pages, ISBN 0-7851-2718-6)
- New Line Cinema's House of Horror #1 (DC Comics, September 2007)
- House of M: Avengers (with Mike Perkins, 5-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, November 2007)
- The Authority: Prime (with Darick Robertson, Wildstorm, 2007, tpb collects The Authority Vol. 4 #5-11, Titan Books, August 2008, ISBN 1-84576-861-2, Wildstorm, July 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1834-2)
- Thunderbolts: Secret Invasion (168 pages, Marvel Comics, March 2009, ISBN 0-7851-2394-6) collects:
- "Breaking Point" (with Brian Denham, one-shot, January 2008)
- "International Incident" (with Ben Oliver, one-shot, February 2008)
- "Reason in Madness" (with Ben Oliver, one-shot, May 2008)
- "Running the Asylum" (with Fernando Blanco, 4-issue Secret Invasion tie-in, Thunderbolts #122-125, Septemberâ€"December, 2008)
- Avengers: The Initiative #8-35 (with co-author Dan Slott and art by Stefano Caselli and Harvey Montecillo Tolibao, Marvel Comics, 2008â€"2010)
- Wildstorm: Armageddon (with various artists, 6-issues, Wildstorm, tpb, 144 pages, April 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1703-6)
- Wildstorm: Revelations (with co-author Scott Beatty, and art by Wes Craig, Wildstorm, 2008, tpb, 296 pages, July 2008, Titan Books, ISBN 1-84576-933-3, Wildstorm, ISBN 1-4012-1867-9)
- The Man with No Name: The Good, The Bad, and The Uglier (with Wellington Dias, Dynamite Entertainment, 2008)
- Wildcats: World's End #1-18 (with Neil Googe and Trevor Hairsine, Wildstorm, 2008â€"2009) collected as:
- Wildcats: World's End (136 pages, August 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2363-X)
- Civil War: House of M (with Andrea Di Vito, 5-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, September 2008)
- Iron Man: Director of SHIELD #33-35: "War Machine: Director of SHIELD" (with Sean Chen, Marvel Comics, 2008)
- Absolution (with Roberto Viacava, Avatar Press, August 2009, ongoing)
- X-Men/Spider-Man (with art by Mario Alberti, 4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, 2008â€"2009)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra (with co-author Mike Costa and art by Antonio Fuso, 4-issue mini-series, IDW Publishing, March 2009, forthcoming)
- House of M: Masters of Evil (with art by Manuel Garcia, 4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics 2009-2010)
- Avengers Academy #1-39 (with Mike McKone, ongoing series, Marvel Comics, June 2010â€"January 2013)
- X-Men Legacy* #260.1 - 275, 300 ( ongoing, Marvel Comics, January 2012â€"October 2012)
- Sunset (graphic novel, Minotaur Press, July 2012)
- Superior Spider-Man: #6 AU (Age of Ultron Crossover, Mar 27, 2013)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine: Angel & Faith #1-25 (with Rebekah Isaacs, Dark Horse Comics, August 2011 - August 2013)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine: Willow: Wonderland #3-5 (with co-author Jeff Parker, pencils by Brian Ching, Dark Horse Comics, January 2013 - March 2013)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Ten #1- (with Rebekah Isaacs, Dark Horse Comics, March 2014 - )
References
External links
- Official website
- Christos N. Gage at the Internet Movie Database
- Christos N. Gage at the Comic Book DB
