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Ben Queen

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Benjamin Queen is an American writer and producer. He was the creator/showrunner for the NBC television show A to Z. He wrote the screenplays for MGM's The Addams Family 2 and the Pixar animated movie Cars 2, and co-wrote the story for Cars 3. He was also the creator of the NBC television series, Powerless and the co-creator and executive producer of the Fox television series, Drive.  He is the author of the graphic novel Bear, which was published by Archaia and Boom! Studios in September 2020. It was listed as one of the New York Public Library's 100 Books of the Year for 2020. In 2021, it was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers. It also won the EGLA Award for Best Children's Graphic Novel—Fiction.   He wrote and produced the pilot Heart of Life for ABC and 20th Television in 2019, which was based on John Mayer's song.   He is adapting A Note of Explanation by Vita Sackville-West into a live-action feature film for Netflix.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Benjamin Queen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Film Production

Original Story:
2017  Cars 3

Screenplay:
2011  Cars 2
2017  Cars 3

Short Story:
2011  Cars 2
2017  Cars 3
????  Drift

Writer:
2001  Proximity
2011  Cars 2
2017  Cars 3
2019  Heart of Life
2021  The Addams Family 2
????  Cola Wars
????  Drift

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TV Production

Creator:
2007  Drive
2014  A to Z
2017  Powerless

Executive Producer:
2007  Drive
2014  A to Z
2017  Powerless
????  Untitled His Majesty's Dragons Project

Writer:
2007  Drive
2014  A to Z
2017  Powerless
????  Untitled His Majesty's Dragons Project

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