Breakout Session: From the Star Wars Galaxy to the Marvel Universe: Writing (and Playing) in the Big Franchise Sandboxes.
Location
Witter's Conference Room (4440 Booth Library)
Start Date
27-9-2025 3:00 PM
End Date
27-9-2025 4:00 PM
Description
Tales from the trenches! What it's like writing for two of the biggest franchises in the world... especially when you were a kid from central Illinois who grew up with, and was deeply influenced by, the epic worlds created by George Lucas and Stan Lee. Yes, sometimes it's okay (and pretty cool) to meet your idols.
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Breakout Session: From the Star Wars Galaxy to the Marvel Universe: Writing (and Playing) in the Big Franchise Sandboxes.
Witter's Conference Room (4440 Booth Library)
Tales from the trenches! What it's like writing for two of the biggest franchises in the world... especially when you were a kid from central Illinois who grew up with, and was deeply influenced by, the epic worlds created by George Lucas and Stan Lee. Yes, sometimes it's okay (and pretty cool) to meet your idols.
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Craig Titley
Craig Titley is a feature film and television writer/producer whose credits include the first live-action Scooby-Doo movie (shared credit with James Gunn), Cheaper by the Dozen, and Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief. He most recently wrote the Ancient Aliens movie in development at Legendary Pictures and a modern adaptation of the classic Quatermain adventure novels. To date his movies and their sequels have earned nearly a billion dollars in worldwide box office receipts.
In television, Titley worked with George Lucas and Lucasfilm Animation, penning episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He was a writer/producer on the NBC super-hero series The Cape and an Executive Producer and writer on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. He is currently developing a series for NetFlix and the producers of Stranger Things.
Titley is a graduate of Eastern Illinois University (with degrees in both English and Business Management) and spent countless hours in the stacks at Booth Library, which he considered his second home at EIU. He also received his MFA in Film Production from the University of Southern California’s Peter Stark Program, and is currently completing a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies.