Verheiden, Mark

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Verheiden, Mark

PERSONAL

Addresses:

Agent—Kathy White, Creative Artists Agency, 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA 90067. Manager—Jennifer Levine, Untitled Entertainment, 1801 Century Park E., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90067.

Career:

Producer and writer.

Awards, Honors:

Saturn Award nomination, best writing, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, 1995, for Timecop.

CREDITS

Television Work; Series:

Creator, Timecop, ABC, 1997.

Supervising producer, Smallville (also known as Smallville Beginnings and Smallville: Superman the Early Days), The WB, 2001-2003.

Co-executive producer, Smallville (also known as Smallville Beginnings and Smallville: Superman the Early Days), The WB, 2003-2004.

Co-executive producer, Battlestar Galactica, Sci-Fi Channel, 2005—.

Television Work; Episodic:

Supervising producer, "The Heist," Timecop, ABC, 1997.

Television Work; Other:

Executive producer, Dark Shadows (pilot), The WB, 2004.

Co-executive producer, Battlestar Galactica: Razor (movie; also known as Razor), Sci-Fi Channel, 2007.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Himself, HypaSpace (also known as HypaSpace Daily and HypaSpace Weekly), Space Network, 2006.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

Himself, Heart of Dorkness: Behind the Scenes of "My Name Is Bruce," Dark Horse Indie/Darkart Entertainment, 2008.

WRITINGS

Television Series:

Smallville (also known as Smallville Beginnings and Smallville: Superman the Early Days), The WB, multiple episodes, between 2001 and 2004.

Battlestar Galactica, Sci-Fi Channel, multiple episodes, between 2005 and 2008.

Television Episodes:

"Given the Heir," Perversions of Science, HBO, 1997.

"The Heist," Timecop, ABC, 1997.

"Rocket Science," Timecop, ABC, 1997.

"Lost Voyage," Timecop, ABC, 1998.

"Red Storm," Martial Law, CBS, 1999.

"Murder by Numbers," The Strip, UPN, 1999.

"Even Better than the Real Thing," The Strip, UPN, 1999.

"Subject: Me and My Shadow," FreakyLinks, Fox, 2001.

"Subject: The Final Word," FreakyLinks, Fox, 2001.

Television Pilots:

Dark Shadows, The WB, 2004.

Screenplays:

Timecop (also based on comic series and story by Verheiden), Universal, 1994.

My Name Is Bruce, Image Entertainment, 2007.

Other:

The American: Book 1, illustrated by Chris Warner, Dark Horse Comics, 1988.

Aliens: Book One, illustrated by Warner, Dark Horse Comics, 1990.

(With Mark A. Nelson) Earth Hive, adapted by Steve Perry, Spectra, 1992.

(With Denis Beauvais) Nightmare Asylum: Aliens Book 2, adapted by Perry, Spectra, 1993.

The American (short stories), Dark House, 2006.

Superman/Batman: Enemies Among Us, illustrated by Ethan Van Sciver and others, DC Comics, 2007.

Writer for more than 125 comic books, including issues of The American, The Phantom, Predator, Smallville, Supergirl, and Superman.

ADAPTATIONS

Films based on stories by Verheiden include Terror Squad, released by Manson International Pictures in 1987, and The Mast, released by New Line Cinema in 1994. The film Timecop: The Berlin Decision (also known as Timecop 2), released by Universal Studios Home Video in 2003, was based on the comic book series written by Verheiden.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

TV Zone, June, 2007, pp. 50-56.

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