Draft:Craig Gore (screenwriter)
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Craig Gore (born September 19, 1973) is an American screenwriter and TV producer known for Chicago P.D. and S.W.A.T..[1]
Biography
[edit]Gore was born to teen parents in South Carolina and was raised by his young single father on a military base in Wilmington, North Carolina.[2] His father was sentenced to prison for Manslaughter when Gore was 13. Gore was on his own by 16. After becoming a professional thief – cracking safes, stealing cars, and pulling robberies -- Gore wound up imprisoned at 18. Having always been an avid reader, he turned to writing during and after prison. Once released and paroled, he attended Columbia College Chicago to study Creative Writing. After graduating in 1999, Gore moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in screenwriting.
Career
[edit]After optioning a number of books/articles in the mid 2000's and adapting them into TV pilots and feature scripts, Gore and his writing partner at the time sold their first pilot to Fox TV Studios in 2008. Gore sold several original pilots before getting staffed on their first show Defiance in 2011. He helped launch and run the successful NBC series Chicago P.D. for its first four seasons.[3]
After splitting with his writing partner in 2017, Gore sold several more pilots and served as the head writer and Executive Producer on the CBS show S.W.A.T. for three seasons.
In 2019, Gore co-wrote the pilot for the police procedural D.E.A. alongside David Ayer and Chris Long[4] under Ayer's Cedar Park Entertainment. It was set to be co-produced by eOne and Fox Entertainment in 2020, but was left unproduced due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
In 2020, he co-wrote the pilot for Law & Order: Organized Crime. [5]
In 2022, he became the Creator and Showrunner of the unproduced Special Forces series S.E.F. for the Saudi Arabian network MBC.
In 2023, Gore began pre-production on an untitled documentary with Kevin Hart's Hartbeat Productions about the life and murder of Detroit crime novelist Donald Goines. The documentary is currently in production and set to be released in 2025.
References
[edit]- ^ Stories, Local (2020-10-14). "Meet Craig Gore of Holdfast Entertainment in West Hollywood". Voyage LA Magazine | LA City Guide. Retrieved 2024-08-22.
- ^ "CRAIG GORE". CRAIG GORE. Retrieved 2024-08-22.
- ^ "Craig Gore". S.W.A.T. Wiki. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
- ^ "'DEA' Drama From Craig Gore, Cedar Park Duo & eOne Lands At Fox With Penalty". Yahoo Entertainment. 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
- ^ "Craig Gore | Producer, Writer, Additional Crew". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-08-22.