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Wrote eleven pages on FURIOUS, my new screenplay, up to page 84 now, done soon.  I like to use specific people to base my characters on, it gives an individual voice.  I keep a row of small photos in front of me on the keyboard as I write.  Sometimes it’s friends and relatives,

Comic-Con, COAST TO COAST and the book signing were all fun, but now it’s time to get back to logging some pages.  I’m up to page 75 on my new thriller screenplay FURIOUS, wrote ten pages today, good feeling. One difference between writing now and in the old days is you ca

Neil Johnson and Marc Zicree Hi, guys, Just got back from hobnobbing with my brother wizards at Comic-Con, appearing on COAST TO COAST and having my TWILIGHT ZONE COMPANION and ASKED AND ANSWERED – HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS book signing at Mystery and Imagination Bookstore.

What a full day of excitement!  I woke early down in San Diego and jumped on the freeway by 7 AM to avoid the crowd driving home from Comic-Con — so I could get to my book signing at Mystery and Imagination Bookstore in Glendale by 1 PM.  Arrived there to find my stepmother Sher

Wow, what a terrific day at Comic-Con!  Caught up with my old friend Mark Fergus (writer of COWBOYS AND ALIENS, IRON MAN and CHILDREN OF MEN) and met his writing partner Hawk Ormsby.  Hawk lives on the other side of the country and is rarely seen, so when I saw the two of them I said

Hello from Comic-Con! Lots of excitement. Reconnected with Doug Booth, the phenomenal actor who played the Faun in PAN'S LABYRINTH, the Silver Surfer and Abe Sapian in HELLBOY. Also got to meet one of my heroes, Gale Anne Hurd, producer of WALKING DEAD, TERMINATOR and ALIENS. Really a

Well, okay, I know I’m the world’s expert on THE TWILIGHT ZONE, but it looks like there’s another author in the Zicree family… one who knows heaps about something that might conceivably be even more popular than the Zone (I’ll leave that one up to the pol

  The question comes up every now and then — why do Elaine and I mentor people in the Industry?  Aren’t we afraid of competition? The short answer is, “No!” There’s room for everyone, and operating from an open, generous heart makes for a better life

  The question comes up every now and then — why do Elaine and I mentor people in the Industry?  Aren’t we afraid of competition? The short answer is, “No!” There’s room for everyone, and operating from an open, generous heart makes for a better life

Just did a cool interview for Eon Magazine about Season Four of the TWILIGHT ZONE blu-ray — the 18 little-seen hour-long episodes. Great fun talking about Serling, Beaumont, Matheson, Earl Hamner, Robert Duvall, etc.  – and of course the Saturn Award win! All good thoughts