John Ridley Wife: Meet Gayle Ridley

Publish date: 2024-05-17

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John Ridley wife-American screenwriter, director, and novelist, John Ridley was born on October 1st, 1964 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the United States of America.

In 1982, Ridley received his diploma from Homestead High School in Mequon, Wisconsin. After enrolling, he left Indiana University and went to New York University.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in East Asian languages from there. Although the topic had no bearing on his line of work, it piqued his intellectual curiosity.

John Ridley career

Ridley lived and traveled in Japan for a year after graduating from college. He then made his way back to the Big Apple, where he started doing stand-up comedy. He also had appearances on Late Night with David Letterman and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

He started penning comedy scripts after relocating to Los Angeles in 1990, including Martin, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and The John Larroquette Show.

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Oliver Stone and he collaborated to adapt Ridley’s first book, Stray Dogs, which was unpublished when Stone acquired the rights, for the 1997 picture U-Turn, which was released a little earlier than Cold Around the Heart. Cold Around the Heart was their first collaboration as writers and directors.

The novels Love Is a Racket and Everyone Smokes in Hell were later written by Ridley. In 1999, David O. Russell’s film Three Kings, which was based on his book Spoils of War, was released.

Russell and Ridley revised Ridley’s initial script, and Warner Bros., the film’s distributing company, agreed to give Ridley a “story by” credit.

Ridley later started working on the NBC crime thriller Third Watch as a writer and supervising producer. The Drift, Those Who Walk in Darkness, and A Talk with the Mann are some of his other books. The American Way is a graphic novel he also penned.

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He worked as an NPR commentator and blogger from 2000 through 2010. A parody of Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man, his blog was titled Visible Man. Ridley signed a one-year contract with Universal Network Television in 2003.

Red Tails, Undercover Brother, and 12 Years a Slave are just a few of the films he wrote as a screenwriter. After Geoffrey S. Fletcher, Ridley became the second African American to win the prize for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on 12 Years a Slave (for Precious, based on the novel Push by Sapphire).

Ridley was creating a Marvel Comics character-based ABC television series in April 2015. The project was abandoned in December 2019 though, as Marvel Television merged with Marvel Studios.

On April 16, 2018, it was revealed that Ridley would write and direct a Blumhouse Studios adaptation of his graphic novel The American Way.

Needle in a Timestack, a feature film version of the Robert Silverberg short story, was set to be directed by Ridley, it was revealed on June 4, 2018, by Bron Studios. Leslie Odom Jr., Freida Pinto, Cynthia Erivo, and Orlando Bloom all made appearances in the movie.

Ridley started penning many series for DC Comics in 2021. As part of the company’s line-wide event “Future State,” the series features a new Batman series called “The Next Batman” as well as a 5-issue series called “The Other History of the DC Universe,” a text-based narrative about the background of non-white, non-American DC heroes like Black Lightning and Katana. Marvel Comics announced in May 2021 that Ridley will pen the Black Panther comics.

Who is John Ridley married to?

Ridley is married to Gayle Ridley. Gayle used to work as a script supervisor and she has two children with Ridley.

Source: www.Ghgossip.com

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