ABOUT
MICHAEL LUCKER is a professional screenwriter and professor of screenwriting with fifteen years experience writing for major studios and fifteen years experience lecturing at major colleges.
He began his career writing cable commercials while earning his undergraduate degree in broadcasting and film at Boston University’s College of Communication. Soon after he landed in Los Angeles working in production for ABC, NBC, CBS, and HBO before taking a job as assistant to Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment on the feature films Always, Arachnophobia, Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, and Jurassic Park.
Michael went on to work in creative affairs at Hollywood Pictures on such movies Crimson Tide, Terminal Velocity, Straight Talk, and Taking Care of Business before embarking on a career as a screenwriter for Paramount, Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, and Universal on such films as Vampire in Brooklyn, Home on The Range, Mulan II, and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, which was nominated for an Academy Award as best animated feature.
Soon an opportunity to help launch a new network for Turner Entertainment brought him home to Atlanta. He went on to work in television creating episodic series for such networks as Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Cartoon Network, Discovery, History, TBS, TNT, TLC, OWN, DIY, A&E, and MSNBC. He also consulted on such independent films as Fear of Rain, Signing Day, Good Intentions., and On a Wing and a Prayer.
Recently, Michael was hired to adapt the award-winning children’s book series Freeing Freddie by FTM Media, write the feature thriller Project 33 for Monument Media, pen the feature drama Fathom & Faith for Three Ring Pictures, and develop the limited series A Nation on Fire for ShoulderHill Entertainment.
A renowned instructor in screenwriting, Michael serves as lecturer at the University of North Georgia, mentor in Reinhardt University’s Creative Writing MFA program, and founder of Screenwriter School. In 2017 the Georgia Film Academy hired him to create a high school screenwriting curriculum which has since been taught to more than 15,000 students in the state.
His book on screenwriting — Crash! Boom! Bang! How to Write Action Movies — was published by www.mwp.com in 2017.
His debut mystery novel — Rule One — is being released by www.wordeee.com in July of 2025 wherever books are sold.
He is now working on Rule Two.