Maurice Molyneaux
Location
San Francisco, CA
Expertise
Classic Sci-Fi Films & TV, Cinema History, Visual Effects And CGI
- Maurice has practical experience with film and filmmaking going back to making Super 8 movies in high school. He's since worked film shoots in various capacities and has made his own short subjects and music videos.
- He once directed voice actors including Billy West (Futurama), Janet Waldo (Jetsons), and Jim Cummings (everything) for a video game version of Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races from a script he co-wrote.
- He's the lead credited screenwriter on the upcoming feature film The Blue Mauritius, which got caught in development hell due to the pandemic, and will hopefully got into production this year.
Experience
Maurice joined Static Media in 2023 and has written for publications and sites as diverse as the ACM SIGgraph Magazine, Video Games & Computer Entertainment, the official StarTrek.com website, WhatCulture and /Film. Over the years he's hung out with and chatted up film and TV folks from James Cameron and John Dykstra to Ronald D. Moore and Seth Green, and attended events and screenings at ILM, Skywalker Ranch, Pixar, and AMPAS. For Fact Trek, a media history project he co-created, Maurice tears apart almost 50 years of mythology about the Star Trek franchise and contextualizes everything in its contemporary media landscape based on primary source research of industry trades and actual production documents. He's currently assisting two TV industry veterans in completing their memoirs for publication. In 2009 he joined the Producers Guild of America's New Media Council.
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Stories By Maurice Molyneaux
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Plenty of sci-fi movies either fell under the radar or were unfairly judged this year, so we've got a list of some of the most underrated sci-fi movies of 2023.
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Sci-fi villains make up some of the most iconic characters of all time, but these started with very different looks that would have changed pop culture history.
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Science-fiction TV shows seem to revel in killing off fan-favorite characters. These are some of the most controversial deaths of beloved sci-fi characters.
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From the experimental silent films of the 1920s to the latest blockbusters, sci-fi films have always held surprising secrets behind their special effects.
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The Twilight Zone was a brilliant show. However, it featured mistakes of the production and science varieties. These are 14 of those mistakes.
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More than a few Star Trek actors left the franchise unexpectedly or abruptly, including Kirstie Alley, Jeffrey Hunter, and Jennifer Lien. Here's what happened.
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Star Trek has always been a game-changer in the entertainment industry. As it closes in on 60 years as a franchise, these are the times it broke its own mold.
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"Star Wars" and "Star Trek" have shared pop culture supremacy for decades. It's inevitable they'd start influencing each other, and not always for the best.
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Call it a mission: possible. These are every one of the secret agents from the Mission: Impossible movie franchise, ranked from worst to best.
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Everyone loves a great needle drop in a movie, but some planned ones that had potential needed to be scrapped before the film released.
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Which Star Trek: Strange New Worlds characters would make the best companions on a voyage into the final frontier? We investigate.
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"Star Trek: Voyager" ran for seven seasons, and a grand total of 172 episodes. Some of those seasons, and episodes, were way better than others.
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Regardless of screen time or cast billing, these main characters in Battlestar Galactica made an impact on the reimagined series.
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The original Star Trek series carries many memorable episodes, but only 21 have made the cut here as the best of the best.
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In 1966, the starship Enterprise changed science fiction forever, but which version of Star Trek's iconic flagship is the very best?