Eric Kripke is an American television writer, director, and producer. He is
the creator of The WB series Supernatural and more recently the NBC
series Revolution. Life and career
Kripke was born in Toledo, Ohio. A 1992 graduate of Sylvania Southview High
School, Eric often created home movies with friends to show to other students.
His artistic influences included John Bellairs. After graduating from the
University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1996 as a member of
the Gamma Eta Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha, Kripke wrote and directed two 1997
films: Battle of the Sexes and Truly Committed. He later developed and wrote
for The WB's 2003 television series Tarzan, which was cancelled after eight
episodes, and followed this by writing the 2005 film Boogeyman. The movie was
followed by a sequel, Boogeyman 2. Furthermore he was an associate producer
for the 2011 romantic action thriller The Adjustment Bureau.
He was developing his first feature film Haunted, for a 2012 release. In August
2011, it was announced that Kripke was developing a series for The CW
Television Network based on the DC Comics character Deadman, but no series
materialized. He created a series for NBC titled Revolution. Kripke served as
the executive producer alongside J.J. Abrams.
= Boogeyman= Prior to his success with Supernatural,
Kripke wrote a screenplay for the film Boogeyman, which was released in early
2005. The film focuses on the life of Tim, played by Barry Watson. Tim, who's
currently suffering the loss of his mother, goes home to confront the
supernatural creature whom he believes killed his father and is also the reason
for his mother's demise. = Supernatural=
In 2005, Kripke created the series Supernatural, which is about two hunter
brothers' personal battle against demons, poltergeists and other
supernatural phenomena. Kripke currently serves as a part-time executive
consultant as of season seven on the series after serving as the show's
primary showrunner for the first five seasons, of which he was noted for
creating a uniquely detailed five-year plan. Supernatural first aired on The
WB. It now airs on The CW, which was created by The WB's 2006 merger with
UPN. In addition to the interest that the characters themselves have
generated, the show is also highly regarded for correctly citing much of
its supernatural lore. = Revolution=
After Kripke stepped down as primary showrunner for Supernatural following
the show's fifth season, he began developing other projects. One of these
projects, entitled Revolution has been picked by NBC. It was picked up by NBC
for the 2012-2013 season, it centers about a group of characters struggling
to survive and reunite with loved ones in a post-apocalyptic world where
everything electronic has mysteriously stopped working, and centers around
their battle to resolve the blackout. It stars Billy Burke, Tracy Spiridakos,
David Lyons, Giancarlo Esposito, Elizabeth Mitchell, Graham Rogers and
Anna Lise Phillips co-starring. Revolution has a Metacritic rating of 64
from 32 mostly positive critic reviews, with Glenn Garvin from the New York
Times saying "Revolution is big, bold and brassy adventure, a
cowboys-and-Indians story for end times."
Revolution was cancelled by NBC after two seasons.
= Amped= In April 2015, Kripke announced he is
writing the comic book series called Amped for DC and Vertigo to be released
in fall 2015. The story follows Josh Jaffe, a neurotic
family man who buys an online ‘smart pill’ to increase his focus and jolt him
out of his slump, but gets much more than he bargained for. To his surprise,
the pill gives him incredible strength and power. From then on, Josh will start
to experience both the mighty highs and humiliating lows of being a real-life
superhero. At the same time, it was announced that
a TV adaptation is being developed for USA Network, with Kripke serving as both
the writer and executive producer. The series will be co-produced by Kripke
Enterprises and Warner Horizon Television.
References External links
Eric Kripke at the Internet Movie Database