Geoffrey Thorne (born January 20, 1970) is an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and actor.
Biography
Thorne was born in Washington, D.C. After a successful career as a television actor including portraying police officer Wilson Sweet in the television series In the Heat of the Night from 1988 to 1993, Thorne began writing professionally, winning Second Prize in Simon & Schuster's sixth annual Strange New Worlds anthology with his story "The Soft Room." He went on to publish more stories in several media tie-in anthologies as well as the Star Trek: Titan novel Sword of Damocles.
Other stories he has written include contributions to Flying Pen Press's anthology Space Grunts, MV Media's Steamfunk anthology, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
As a screenwriter, Thorne was a writer for season 9 of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, multiple episodes of the Ben 10 and Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man franchises was a writer on season 3-5 of TNT's Leverage and a writer-producer on the Electric Entertainment's The Librarians.
In 2014 Lion Forge Entertainment and NBC-Universal tapped Thorne to reboot the global fan favorite TV series, Knight Rider in comic book form. Thorne is also the co-creator of Phantom Canyon, an audio drama from Pendant Productions.
In 2017 Marvel Entertainment tapped Thorne to be head writer and showrunner of the animated Avengers series, retitled Avengers: Black Panther's Quest, and in 2019 he became Co-Executive Producer of Ghost, the first spinoff of the STARZ network global smash hit, Power.
Thorne is also a co-founder and writing partner of GENRE 19, a studio he formed with artist Todd Harris in 2008.
The Winterman Project
The Winterman Project is a small press established by Thorne in which he produces shorts, comics and ebooks. Thorne describes it as "a place to play, a place where I could write what I want, make what I want without worrying about clients or editorial oversight." In the end of 2017 he launched "Winterman Comics", a line of comics including an anthology series and a series of titles.
Works
Star Trek
Strange New Worlds VI (June 2003) "The Soft Room" Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Prophecy and Change (September 2003) "Chiaroscuro" Strange New Worlds 8 (July 2005) "Concurrence" Star Trek: Voyager: Distant Shores (November 2005) "Or the Tiger"
Novels
Star Trek: Titan: Sword of Damocles (November 2007) Winter of the Wild Hunt (October 2010) Better Angels (February 2012) Galatea's Cross (December 2012)
Comics
Honor Brigade (Spinner Rack Comics, 2009) (with Todd Harris) Prodigal: Egg of First Light (Ape Entertainment, 2010) Dark Horse Presents: Journeymen (Dark Horse Comics, 2013) Prodigal: Remastered (Trillbent.com, 2013) Knight Rider (Lion Forge Comics, 2013) Mosaic (Marvel Comics, 2016-2017) Solo (Marvel Comics, 2016) Winterman Comics (The Winterman Project, 2017) Black Panther: Soul of a Machine (Marvel Comics, 2017) Menthu: Scarab vs Bull (Black Inc!, 2017) Spider-Geddon: George Stacy, the Spider (Marvel Comics, 2018) Battlebook: Redjack(Winterman Comics, 2018) Battlebook: Pilgrim (Winterman Comics, 2018) Battlebook: The Return of Cadre One (Winterman Comics, 2018) Marvel's Voices (Marvel Comics, 2020) Future State: Green Lantern #1 (DC Comics, 2021) Menagerie: Declassified (Myth Division, 2021) Future State: Green Lantern #2 (DC Comics, 2021) King in Black: Black Panther (Marvel Comics, 2021) Truth & Justice: Vixen (DC Comics, 2021) Planet of the Symbiotes #2 (Marvel Comics, 2021) Infinite Frontier #0 (DC Comics, 2021) Green Lantern (DC Comics, 2021-2022) Blood Syndicate (Milestone Media, 2022) John Stewart: Emerald Knight (DC Comics, 2023) Milestone 30th Anniversary (Milestone Media, 2023)