StarCitizen:John Schimmel

John Schimmel

John Schimmel is Executive Producer at Cloud Imperium Games.<ref name=":3">Star Citizen Live: Talkin' VFX, Star Citizen, YouTube, 3 mars 2023</ref>

Works at CIG

He was invited by StarCitizen:Chris Roberts as Story Consultant, to work with StarCitizen:Dave Haddock who was the only writer at that time, and later joined by StarCitizen:Will Weissbaum, to craft the story for StarCitizen:Squadron 42. Around 2013 he joined CIG full time as Head of Linear Content.<ref name=":3" />

He produced the motion capture shoot in 2015-2016 at StarCitizen:The Imaginarium.<ref name=":3" />

He ran global video production.<ref name=":3" /> He worked on commercials and Inside CIG videos.<ref name=":0">Meet the Devs: John Schimmel (2015.05.05), Star Citizen, YouTube</ref>

As of 2023 he is producing the performance and motion capture shoots, he supervised the buildout of StarCitizen:Studio 6, CIG StarCitizen:motion capture studio.<ref name=":3" />

Other Works

After migrating to New York he was playing bass at the La MaMa Experimental Theater in the band for the La MaMa African American Company. His band then migrated to the Joe Papp Public Theater.<ref name=":2">Video Game Narratives with Tod Goldberg & John Schimmel, Florida Gulf Coast University, YouTube, 25 oct. 2020</ref>

He spent about 15 years in New York playing in various shows including Broadway. He was the musical director of the Jewish Orchestra in the Cherry Orchard.<ref name=":3" />

After reading an article about nuclear terrorism he sent it to a screenwriter friend thinking there was a movie in it. They wrote the movie script together and sold it to Fox. While the movie did not get made, John Schimmel was bitten by the movie bug.<ref name=":0" />

He co wrote Pump Boys and Dinettes, which got a Tony Awards nomination.<ref>Pump Boys and Dinettes | 1982 Tony Awards, MrPoochsmooch, YouTube, 20 juil. 2013</ref>

After moving to Los Angeles, he worked at Warner Brothers as a freelance script reader, before being hired in the story department and becoming a development and production executive. He started out helping identify scripts they wanted to acquire and then working to develop those which were optioned. Later, he became a studio presence on some of the films Warner Brothers was making.

He worked at Michael Douglas and Steve Reuther Douglas-Reuther Productions, among others on Face Off and Rainmaker. He then helped set up Furthur Films with Michael Douglas where he was creative producer. When Steve Reuther started Belair Entertainment John Schimmel went there. He eventually went to work at StarCitizen:Ascendant Pictures where he became president of production.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">Interview with John Schimmel, davesaysmoviesmatter.com, </ref>

He teaches screenwriting at the University of California and creative producing at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Film School.<ref name=":1" />

He wrote the book Screenwriting Behind Enemy Lines.<ref>John Schimmel - Screenwriting, Behind Enemy Lines, Connie Martinson, YouTube, 25 févr. 2014</ref>

Early Life

He was a bass player in college and joined Elizabeth Swados playing at folk festivals for Pete Seeger Clearwater Festival before playing in New York, where he was going to math graduate school at the Corona Institute in New York University. He dropped out and went to work in theaters.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

Quotes

"The writers are the creators of and the keepers of the lore" -John Schimmel<ref name=":2" />

Trivia

His favorite movie is Fanny & Alexander.<ref name=":0" />

References