Gary Leslie Whitta was born on 21 July 1972 and is an English screenwriter, author, game designer, and video game journalist.
23 Facts About Gary Whitta
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Gary Whitta was editor-in-chief of both the UK and US editions of PC Gamer magazine and contributor to gaming magazine ACE.
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Gary Whitta subsequently served as the editor of Total Football.
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Besides his involvement setting up PC Gamer, Gary Whitta has a long history of involvement with print and online magazines of all kinds.
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ACE magazine was owned by UK publisher Future Publishing, and in early 2000 Gary Whitta worked with Future to establish a film magazine, Total Movie magazine.
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Gary Whitta has found Hollywood success as the screenwriter of the film The Book of Eli.
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Gary Whitta was working on a script known as the "Monkey Project" with Chris Weston, which would have reimagined the classic Buddhist novel Journey to the West as an animated series.
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Gary Whitta wrote the script for the action thriller film Undying.
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Gary Whitta was hired to script the first Star Wars stand-alone film, Rogue One, directed by Gareth Edwards.
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Gary Whitta has written for Duke Nukem Forever, Prey, and Gears of War.
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Gary Whitta has consulted on general game design for Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Activision, Midway Games, and others.
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Gary Whitta serves as a story consultant on Halo 5: Guardians.
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Gary Whitta is the writer behind a popular short series of comic books based on the Death, Jr.
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Gary Whitta spoke about his experience writing this comic with Silver Bullet Comics in May 2005.
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Gary Whitta was a frequent commentator on the PC Gamer podcast and he co-hosted the Game Theory podcast with Colin Campbell, which has since stopped being produced.
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Gary Whitta commentated on the Next Gen podcast until the podcast was canceled.
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Gary Whitta was a weekly co-host of This is Only a Test and an occasional guest on Behind the Screened Door, the Giant Bombcast the Comic Vine Podcast, before Whiskey Media was sold in two deals to CBS Interactive and BermanBraun.
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In October 2011, Gary Whitta helped raise over $50,000 for Child's Play when he co-hosted a 24-hour-long, live-streamed edition of This is Only a Test with Tested creators Will Smith and Norman Chan.
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Gary Whitta continues to chair the Octoberkast charity event every year, creating the "Space Rocks" game in 2013.
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Gary Whitta has returned as a guest on Giant Bomb's Giant Bombcast in recent years.
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In November 2017, Gary Whitta became an official co-host for the video game podcast, Kinda Funny Games Daily after numerous guest appearances on the show and one on Kinda Funny's flagship podcast The GameOverGreggy Show.
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Additionally, Gary Whitta has been a co-host for Kinda Funny's Xbox-centric podcast, the Kinda Funny Xcast, since its premiere in July 2020.
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On 21 August 2020, Gary Whitta announced Talk Guys, a talk show based in the game Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout.