Christopher Yost

Christopher Yost
Born Christopher Lee Yost
(1973-02-21) 21 February 1973
St. Louis, Missouri
Residence Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education University of Michigan
University of Southern California
Occupation Screenwriter
Years active 2002–present
Notable work Thor: The Dark World
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
X-Force
Website http://manvs.com

Christopher Lee Yost (born February 21, 1973) is an American film, animation and comic book writer best known as the head writer of the Marvel Comics animated series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and co-writer (with his frequent collaborator Craig Kyle) of the comic book series X-23: Innocence Lost, X-23: Target X, New X-Men, X-Force. and Scarlet Spider (Volume 2). Yost was a member of the Marvel Writers Program and one of the screenwriters of Marvel Studios Thor: The Dark World which was released in 2013.

Career

Christopher Yost graduated from the University of Michigan with a film and video degree. With no clear sense of which direction to take his career in, he got into advertising in the Detroit area, producing TV commercials. He later interned, in 2002, in Marvel Comics' west coast office. His spec film scripts got attention from Marvel executives who hired Yost to write episodes of the TV series X-Men: Evolution. In 2003, Yost and Kyle co-wrote the episodes that introduced mutant character X-23, female clone of the popular X-Men character Wolverine. Marvel executives were impressed with X-23’s reception on TV, and asked Yost and Kyle to adapt the character into comics, first by writing a six-issue mini-series titled X-23: Innocence Lost, and then by taking over writing chores (as of issue #20) on the New X-Men title, bringing X-23 in as a regular character. Yost and Kyle also co-wrote a second X-23 six-issue miniseries, titled X-23: Target X as well as X-Force. Yost also wrote Ender's Game: Battle School, the first in a series of adaptations of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game by Marvel.[1]

In 2012 Yost moved to work on Marvel's Spider-Man family of comics, revitalizing the character Kaine from the 1990s storyline, the Clone Saga, in the ongoing series Scarlet Spider. He also took over writing duties of the Spider-Man team-up book, Avenging Spider-Man, which was relaunched as Superior Spider-Man Team-Up in 2013.

Outside of Marvel, Yost has written several other comics including Red Robin from DC Comics[2] and his own creator owned series Killer of Demons from Image Comics[3]

Yost has also written for such animated shows as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Batman and was the story editor and head writer on the Fantastic Four animated series that aired on Cartoon Network in 2006 as well as Iron Man: Armored Adventures. He was the head writer of Marvel Animation's The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, which aired on Disney XD from 2010-2012.

Yost worked in the Marvel Feature Film Writers Program from 2010-2012, and was one of the writers of Marvel's feature film Thor: The Dark World (2013).[4] In August 2013, Yost was announced as the writer for Mattel's Max Steel feature film, as well as the co-writer on the upcoming Marvel sequel Thor: Ragnarok, Which is set for release on July 28, 2017.

Filmography

Film
Year Title Credit(s)
2008 Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow Writer
2013 Thor: The Dark World Writer
2015 Max Steel Writer
2017 Thor: Ragnarok Writer

Television

Bibliography

Comics

References

  1. ↑ Chris Yost: Bringing Ender Wiggin to Comics, Newsarama, October 6, 2008
  2. ↑ Christopher Yost Talks Red Robin, Comic Book Resources, April 13, 2009
  3. ↑ Down the Creator-Owned Road: Chris Yost on Killer of Demon, Newsarama, December 23, 2008
  4. ↑ Tuesday Q&A: Chris Yost, Marvel.com, November 1, 2011

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