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Gary Whitta (Gary Leslie Whitta) was born on 21 July, 1972 in Poplar, London, England, is an English writer and video game journalist. Discover Gary Whitta's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 51 years old?

Popular As Gary Leslie Whitta
Occupation Author Screenwriter Video game designer
Age 51 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 21 July 1972
Birthday 21 July
Birthplace Poplar, London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1972

Gary Leslie Whitta (born 21 July 1972) is an English-American screenwriter, author, game designer, and video game journalist.

He was the editor-in-chief of both the UK and US editions of PC Gamer magazine and a contributor to the gaming magazine ACE.

1992

When ACE closed down in 1992, he became deputy editor of The One for Amiga Games and was involved with founding the original PC Gamer magazine in the UK.

He subsequently served as the editor of Total Football.

A few years later, he moved to the United States to become editor-in-chief of the newer, US version, of PC Gamer.

Besides his involvement setting up PC Gamer, Whitta has a long history of involvement with print and online magazines of all kinds.

2000

ACE magazine was owned by UK publisher Future Publishing, and in early 2000 Whitta worked with Future to establish a film magazine, Total Movie magazine.

2001

Due to financial difficulties at the publisher, Total Movie was canceled after only four issues in early 2001.

While no longer managing or editing, Whitta still contributes game reviews and opinion pieces for a number of gaming publications.

His articles can be found in various places, including PC Gamer and 1Up.com.

He also shows up in industry podcasts, for example with Tested.com, PC Gamer and Next Generation.

In addition to contributing to periodicals, Whitta has written a number of screenplays and TV episodes.

A partial list, including the text of those which were not picked up, could at one time be found on his homepage.

Whitta has found Hollywood success as the screenwriter of the film The Book of Eli.

He was also working on a script known as the "Monkey Project" with Chris Weston, which would have reimagined the classic Buddhist novel Journey to the West (and the related classic television series Monkey) as an animated series.

However, Weston pulled out of the project.

He wrote the script for the action thriller film Undying.

His latest screenwriting work was the sci-fi film After Earth.

He was hired to script the first Star Wars stand-alone film, Rogue One, directed by Gareth Edwards.

2005

Whitta spoke about his experience writing this comic with Silver Bullet Comics in May 2005.

2010

Whitta was the screenwriter of The Book of Eli (2010), co-wrote After Earth (2013) with M. Night Shyamalan, and co-developed the story for Rogue One (2016).

Whitta began his career as a writer and games journalist for ACE magazine.

2011

In September 2011, Whitta and Campbell, then News and Features Editor at IGN, started a new podcast in the same vein as Game Theory, called IGN's Game Business Show.

He also commentated on the Next Gen podcast until the podcast was canceled.

He was a weekly co-host of This is Only a Test (Tested) and an occasional guest on Behind the Screened Door (Screened), the Giant Bombcast (Giant Bomb) the Comic Vine Podcast, before Whiskey Media was sold in two deals to CBS Interactive and BermanBraun.

In October 2011, Whitta helped raise over $50,000 for Child's Play when he co-hosted a 24-hour-long, live-streamed edition of This is Only a Test with Tested creators Will Smith and Norman Chan.

2013

Whitta continues to chair the Octoberkast charity event every year, creating the "Space Rocks" game in 2013.

Whitta has returned as a guest on Giant Bomb's Giant Bombcast in recent years.

2015

On 9 January 2015, he was announced to have amicably parted ways with the film.

Whitta is currently co-creating the comic OLIVER with Transmetropolitan/The Boys co-creator and illustrator Darick Robertson for a 2015 release from Image Comics.

Whitta was a frequent commentator on the PC Gamer podcast and he co-hosted the Game Theory podcast with Colin Campbell, which has since stopped being produced.

2016

On 27 October 2016, Variety reported that Warner Bros., Village Roadshow and Team Downey had put together a writers' room for the third of the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movies, with several top names, including Whitta, Nicole Perlman, Justin Malen, Geneve Dworet-Robertson and Kieran Fitzgerald.

Whitta has written for Duke Nukem Forever, Prey, and Gears of War.

He has also consulted on general game design for Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Activision, Midway Games, and others.

More recently, Whitta was tapped to oversee the narrative development of Telltale Games' episodic video game adaptation of The Walking Dead, while writing its fourth episode.

Though he left Telltale after completing the first season, he returned to help complete The Walking Dead: The Final Season.

He serves as a story consultant on Halo 5: Guardians.

Whitta is also the writer behind a popular short series of comic books based on the Death, Jr. character, together with cover artist Mike Mignola and illustrator Ted Naifeh.

Having been extended to a second three-part series, the writing has received praise as "charming and cleverly subversive" and for its "quirky characters and slick humor".

2017

In November 2017, Whitta became an official co-host for the video game podcast, Kinda Funny Games Daily after numerous guest appearances on the show and one on Kinda Funny's flagship podcast The GameOverGreggy Show.