Donald F. Glut ( / ɡ l uː t / ; born February 19, 1944) is an American writer, motion picture film director, and screenwriter . He is best known for writing the novelization of the second Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
12-437: From 1953 to 1969, Glut made a total of 41 amateur films , on subjects ranging from dinosaurs, to unauthorized adaptations of such characters as Superman , The Spirit , and Spider-Man . Due to publicity he received in the pages of Forrest J Ackerman 's magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland , Glut was able to achieve a degree of notoriety based on his work. This allowed him to increase the visibility of his films by obtaining
24-499: A classmate and friend of Glut at the University of Southern California , George Lucas approached him to write the novelization of A New Hope , but Glut turned him down due to the low pay and the fact the Lucas' name would be on the cover. Glut then wrote the novelization of The Empire Strikes Back (1980). While working on the novel, he had difficulty because details of the script and
36-473: A company that is publishing magazines as an homage to Warren Publishing's past work using similar layouts and artwork. Glut is working as an associate editor and writer on some of Warrant's homage titles such as The Creeps and Vampiress Carmilla . 1967–1968 Glut played bass for The Penny Arkade . They recorded only one album, produced by Michael Nesmith of the Monkees . The album was not released until 2004 as
48-546: A limited Record Store Day LP/CD by Sundazed Records . Amateur film Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 110755285 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:45:29 GMT Tragg and the Sky Gods Tragg and
60-417: Is 480 minutes, and includes a documentary about the making of those films, with interviews with Forrest J Ackerman, Randal Kleiser , Bob Burns , Jim Harmon , Scott Shaw , Paul Davids , Bill Warren , and others. Over the next decades, Glut pursued a variety of professions in the entertainment field. He worked heavily as a screenwriter, mostly in children's television on shows such as Shazam! , Land of
72-834: The Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia series of reference works. Glut created and wrote several series for Western Publishing 's line of Gold Key Comics including The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor , Dagar the Invincible , and Tragg and the Sky Gods . At Marvel Comics , he wrote Captain America , The Invaders , Kull the Destroyer , Solomon Kane , Star Wars , and What If...? . His work for Warren Publishing included Creepy , Eerie , and Vampirella . More recently, Glut has been working for Warrant Publishing Company,
84-660: The Lost , Spider-Man , Transformers , Challenge of the GoBots , Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends , DuckTales , Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle , The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians , G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero , X-Men , and many more. He also claimed to have created some of the characters and much of the back story for the Masters of the Universe toy line, which served as
96-625: The Sky Gods was a comic-book title published by Gold Key Comics in the mid-1970s. The series was created by writer Donald F. Glut and artist Jesse Santos . Later, artist Dan Spiegle would work on the title. The character first appeared in Mystery Comics Digest #3, published in April 1972. His next appearance was in Mystery Comics Digest #9 in January 1973. A series, Tragg and
108-570: The Sky Gods , would then run from #1 (June 1975) to #8 (February 1977). The last original Tragg story appeared in Gold Key Spotlight #9 in September 1977. Whitman , the successor to Gold Key, later reprinted the first issue as #9 in May 1982. Tragg and the Sky Gods was a mix of science fiction and prehistoric fiction . The book narrated the tale of a group of advanced aliens who landed on Earth in
120-442: The art design were compartmentalized inside Lucasfilm . Descriptions of some characters and scenes in the novel turned out differently from the film as Glut had to base them on concept art by Ralph McQuarrie . Glut has written approximately 65 published books, both novels, and nonfiction, plus numerous children's books based on franchises. Many of his nonfiction books have been about dinosaurs, including Dinosaur Dictionary and
132-535: The basis for the TV show. With the release of 1996's Dinosaur Valley Girls , Glut began a professional directing career that has seen him helm several exploitation-style films, such as The Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula (2001), The Mummy's Kiss (2003), Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood (2004), The Mummy's Kiss: 2nd Dynasty (2006), and Blood Scarab (2007). More recently he wrote and directed Dances with Werewolves (2017) and Tales of Frankenstein (2018). Having been
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#1732869928843144-478: The services of known actors such as Kenne Duncan and Glenn Strange , who reprised his most famous role as the Frankenstein Monster for Glut. His final amateur film was 1969's Spider-Man , after which he moved into professional work full-time. On October 3, 2006, Epoch Cinema released a two-DVD set of all 41 of Glut's amateur films titled I Was A Teenage Moviemaker. The total running time of both DVDs
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