Max Brooks
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Maximillian Michael Brooks (born May 22, 1972) is an American actor and author.
He is the son of comedy filmmaker Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft.
Much of Brooks's writing focuses on zombie stories.
He is a lecturer at the Modern War Institute at West Point, New York.
Early life
Brooks was born on May 22, 1972, in Manhattan, New York City. He is the son of actress Anne Bancroft and actor, director, producer, and writer Mel Brooks. His father is Jewish, while his mother was an Italian-American Catholic.
Brooks is dyslexic and recalled that during the time in which he was growing up:
Brooks attended Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California. He studied at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history. He also attended graduate school, studying film at American University in Washington, D.C.
Personal life
Brooks has been married to playwright Michelle Kholos since 2003. They have one son, Henry Michael Brooks (born March 2005), and live in Venice, California. In October 2020, Brooks and his son appeared in a short video featuring Mel Brooks making his first political video at age 94 to endorse Joe Biden for president.
Career
Brooks appeared on Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2003.
Brooks wrote his first book, The Zombie Survival Guide, a satirical survival guide to zombies, in 2003. Brooks wrote an Oral History of the Zombie War, a book set ten years after a zombie apocalypse. Paramount Pictures acquired the film rights, and Brad Pitt's production firm, Plan B Entertainment, produced it. Brooks said in the October 2006 issue of Fangoria Magazine that he would not be writing the screenplay for the motion picture because he was not an experienced enough screenwriter to "do it right" (J. Michael Straczynski wrote the first version of the screenplay).
Brooks wrote the introduction to the hardcover collected edition of Dynamite Entertainment's Raise the Dead, which was released in 2007.
In 2010, Brooks created the IDW comic book mini-series G.I. Hearts & Minds by Joe.
Closure, Limited, and Other Zombie Tales were published in 2012, as well as three other short stories set in the World War Z universe.
Broadway Books published The Harlem Hellfighters, a graphic book that depicts a fictionalized account of the African American 369th Infantry Regiment's wartime experience in World War I, written by Brooks and illustrated by Caanan White. Caleeb Pinkett and James Lassiter, who produced Overbrook Entertainment, have purchased the rights to produce a film of the book.
He wrote the script for Matt Damon's 2016 film The Great Wall.
Brooks attended MineCon 2016 and revealed that he was working on a Minecraft-based book called Minecraft: The Island, and that in 2021, he published Minecraft: The Mountain.
Brooks released a new book titled Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre in August 2019. It was released on June 16, 2020.
Brooks has a number of other creative credits. He has appeared in Roseanne, To Be or Not to Be, Pacific Blue, and 7th Heaven as an actor. He also has a career as a voice actor in animated shows Batman Beyond, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Justice League, and All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series. He was cast as himself in the 3rd season of Lost Tapes, educating the audience how zombies came to be. He appeared on Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior, in which he portrayed the zombie crew in the "Vampires vs. Zombies" episode as one of the Zombie experts alongside Matt Mogk, founder of the Zombie Research Society.