Aug.13/21 X-MEN THE ANIMATED SERIES Eric Lewald & Julia Lewald

Eric Lewald and Julia Lewald are two of the premier writer-producersin family and youth-oriented television, with over 700 produced credits.They have been showrunners, together or individually, on 14 series,including the world-wide number-one hit X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES,the breakthrough show that helped bring Marvel characters to TV andmovies and made Fox TV the number one network in kids' programming.The Lewalds have developed series for Universal, MGM, Fox, andDisney; for Ivan Reitman at Northern Lights; and for Spielberg andKatzenberg at Dreamworks. At Sam Raimi's Renaissance Films, theydeveloped and supervised the writing for the 50-episode series YoungHercules, starring Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling. Eric received an Emmynomination for producing the TV movie My Fair Madeline, while Julia wonan Environmental Media Award for her small-screen adaptation of RobertHeinlein’s YA classic, Red Planet.Eric recently published the behind-the-scenes book Previously on X-MEN: The Making of an Animated Series (Jacobs-Brown, 2017), ahistory and celebration of the creation of the landmark television show, toldby the showrunner, complete with illustrations, photographs, and Eric’s 36interviews featuring the cast, writers, and artists who made it. This wasfollowed by Eric and Julia’s X-MEN: The Art and Making of an AnimatedSeries (Abrams, 2020), a complementary, large-format art book containingover a thousand designs, cels, and other images from the series, as well asoriginal art created for the book by the series’ artists.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/forbidden-realms-late-night-show-with-gary--2788432/support.