Terry Matalas was born on December 11,1975 and is an American television writer, director, and executive producer, best known for co-creating and showrunning 12 Monkeys, which ran for four seasons on SyFy.
18 Facts About Terry Matalas
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Terry Matalas was a showrunner on the fourth season of MacGyver for CBS and the second and third seasons of Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+.
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Terry Matalas ended up working on projects related to both titles later in his professional career.
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Terry Matalas attended Emerson College in Boston, where he met frequent co-collaborator Travis Fickett.
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Terry Matalas began his career working as an associate on the TV series Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise, including writing two stories for the latter.
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Terry Matalas wrote for Terra Nova on Fox and Nikita on The CW.
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In 2012, Terry Matalas wrote the Star Trek: The Next Generation comic miniseries Hive for IDW Publishing.
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Terry Matalas says he always wanted to create a serialized time travel show.
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Terry Matalas told Matalas and Fickett that they had been planning to reboot the film as a show, and they wanted the pair to rewrite Splinter as a pilot for 12 Monkeys.
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Rather than completely rewriting their script, Terry Matalas suggested simply changing the characters' names to those from 12 Monkeys.
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Terry Matalas cast Christopher Lloyd in the third season of 12 Monkeys, which he called a "dream come true".
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In 2018, Terry Matalas sold an original drama series to CBS entitled Apex.
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In 2019, Terry Matalas was brought on to the reboot of MacGyver for CBS, as a showrunner on the fourth season.
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Terry Matalas had originally sold the project to NBC as an adaptation of the novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.
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In 2022, Terry Matalas was promoted to co-showrunner of Star Trek: Picard for the second season and served as sole showrunner for the third and final season.
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In 2024, Terry Matalas was hired by Marvel Studios to serve as showrunner for the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series Vision Quest, set for release in 2026.
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Terry Matalas is an official restorer for the original DeLorean cars from the film Back to the Future, and he and fellow enthusiast Joe Walser spent nearly two years working to restore Universal's original hero car.
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Terry Matalas owns a second replica DeLorean, built from parts of the film's second hero car.