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Christos Gage

Christos N. Gage is an American screenwriter and comic book writer. He is known for his work on the TV series Daredevil, Hawaii Five-0, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Numbers and the films The Breed and Teenage Caveman. In the comics industry, he has done considerable work on the titles Angel & Faith, Avengers Academy, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Superior Spider-Man, Spider-Geddon and has written tie-in books for the "Civil War" and "World War Hulk" storylines.

Christos Gage

Christos Nicholas Gatzoyiannis
1977
New York City, U.S.

Writer

Early life[edit]

Christos N. Gage[1] is the son of Greek-born author and New York Times investigative journalist Nicholas Gage.[2] His original family name is Gatzoyiannis. He was born in New York City, and grew up in Athens, Greece, and then North Grafton, Massachusetts. He attended Brown University, where he majored in American civilization.[3] He received his MFA in Screenwriting from the AFI Conservatory.[4]

Career[edit]

Film and television[edit]

Gage, with Ruth Fletcher Gage, adapted the Arthur C. Clarke novel Rendezvous With Rama for Morgan Freeman's Revelations Entertainment. They co-wrote the 2001 film The Breed, starring Adrian Paul, Bai Ling and Bokeem Woodbine, for Sony/Screen Gems and Starz. He wrote and served as associate producer on the film Teenage Caveman for HBO; independent filmmaker Larry Clark directed and Stan Winston produced. In 2010, the Gages wrote the film Paradox, starring Kevin Sorbo, for SyFy UK.


The Gages co-wrote episodes of the TV shows Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Numbers. SVU creator Dick Wolf cites one of their episodes from the series' fourth season, "Mercy", as "a high water mark" of the show's 400-episode run, saying "I tell writers that if you're going to look at one episode after the pilot, it's that one."[5] The episode was nominated for a SHINE Award.[6] In 2014 the Gages joined the writing staff of the first season of the Netflix/Marvel TV show Daredevil[7] which was nominated for three Emmy Awards [8] and won the Saturn Award for Best New Media TV Series.[9] They were on the writing staff of Hawaii Five-0 for the show's ninth (2018-2019) season.

Comics[edit]

Gage broke into the comic book industry in December 2004 with the DC Comics miniseries Deadshot. One of his earliest Marvel Comics works was a Union Jack mini-series with Mike Perkins.[10]


For Wildstorm Productions Gage wrote The Authority: Prime with Darick Robertson.[11][12][13] His subsequent Wildstorm work included Wildstorm: Armageddon,[13][14] Wildstorm: Revelations[15] and Wildcats: Worlds End[16] which was part of a relaunch of a number of titles.[17]

2003 SHINE Award nomination for Best Scene Stealer (for )[42]

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

2007 Comics Nexus Award winner for Best Breakout Talent.

[43]

2008 nomination for Outstanding Comic Book (for Midnighter)

GLAAD Media Award

2012 nomination for Best New Series (for Angel & Faith)[24]

Harvey Award

2019 BAFTA Games Awards nomination for narrative (for Spider-Man)

[39]

2019 SXSW Gaming Awards nomination for Excellence in Narrative (for Spider-Man)

[40]

2019 G.A.N.G. Awards winner for Best Dialogue (for )[44]

Spider-Man

2019 nomination for Videogame Writing Achievement (for Spider-Man)[38]

Writers Guild of America

Personal life[edit]

Gage is married to Ruth Fletcher Gage, with whom he often collaborates in screenwriting projects.[3]

(2001)

The Breed

(2002)

Teenage Caveman

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

: "Bones of Contention " (2005)

Numbers

: "A Complicated Woman" (with Jim Lee, 2007)

Revisioned: Tomb Raider

(2010)

Paradox

: "Speak of the Devil" (2015)

Daredevil

(2018-2019)

Hawaii Five-0

Official website

at IMDb

Christos N. Gage

at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

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