John Leekley

John Leekley is an American writer director and producer He is one of the most prolific writerproducers in television He received a Primetime Emmy Award for his work as executive producerwriter on the HBO Original Series Spawn Leekley was creatorwriterexecutive producer of the series Kindred The Embraced for Fox Network which is a cult favorite on the web He started his television career as coproducer writer and creator of the landmark eighthour CBS miniseries The Blue and The Gray CBS starring Gregory Peck as Abraham Lincoln based on the novel of the same name that he authored He has also served as writerproducer for several highly regarded movies including In the Company of Darkness starring Helen Hunt CBS She Fought Alone NBC which was the first movie to confront the issue of date rape Buried Secrets NBC the fourhour miniseries Night Sins CBS based on the bestselling novel of that name and Mafia Doctor CBS He was the creator of the dark supernatural series Wolf Lake for CBS centering on teenagers in a small town in the Northwest who are changelings He has also written and produced a number of other series for television Leekley wrote and directed the theatrical feature film The Prince of Central Park starring Academy Award nominees Harvey Keitel Kathleen Turner Danny Aiello and Cathy Moriarty He later completed the futuristic feature film script City of Night The story revolves around the survivors of a worldwide plague who gather together in the Bowery of New York City forming a new minority in America at the bottom of society with their own mysterious night culture the gangsters who rule it and the cops who try to take it back Leekley is also the bestselling author of fiction and nonfiction books He is an historical author having cowritten Moments The Pulitzer Prize Photographs and edited Reflections on the Civil War the last book by historian Bruce Catton He completed the manuscript for a novel Jazzmen an epic story about the jazz era from 1900 to the 1920s set in New Orleans the river boats and amidst the mobsters of Chicago Recently he wrote the screenplay The White Rose a true story of medical students in Nazi Germany who formed the only national resistance movement against Hitler and the Gestapo He is represented by the Kaplan Stahler Agency and RAIN Management