Alan B. McElroy
Alan B. McElroy is an American writer for film, television, comics, and video games. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he has lived in Los Angeles since the early 1990s. He is best known for his work with Todd McFarlane on Spawn, including the Curse of the Spawn comic series, the 1997 Spawn movie, and the animated Spawn series where he served as a co-creator and showrunner.
McElroy made his screenwriting debut with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, the fourth film in the Halloween series. He famously developed the concept, pitched the story, and submitted the final draft in under eleven days due to a Writers Guild of America strike. He has written many action and horror films, such as Rapid Fire, The Marine, Tekken, Wheels of Terror, and Three.
His 2003 film Wrong Turn started a franchise with five sequels, though he was not involved in the later films. McElroy is a Christian; two of his movies, Three and Left Behind: The Movie, are adaptations of religious works.
He is married to Kymm McElroy, an artist and homemaker, and they have three children: two daughters and a son named Matthew.
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