Michael John Petty

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Location
North Idaho
School
Montana State University
Expertise
DC Comics, The Lord Of The Rings, Westerns
  • Michael has been a podcaster for over a decade and has interviewed various industry professionals, such as Marc Guggenheim, Dallas Jenkins, and Jeremy Adams. He currently hosts "No Fate: A Terminator Podcast."
  • He is an award-winning filmmaker whose short horror screenplay, "Reaper," received the Platinum Award for "Best Script" at the Los Angeles Horror Competition. His neo-Western screenplay "Bright Morning Star" and spec pilot "Holy Man" hold over a dozen collective accolades, including placements in the Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge (Top 25), Final Draft's Big Break, and the Austin Film Festival.
  • Michael's work has been read by some of his modern-day Western heroes, such as Craig Johnson, C.J. Box, and Anne Hillerman.

Experience

Michael has been covering the entertainment industry since long before every celebrity had a podcast. Beginning with Across the Airwaves Productions in 2010, he reviewed a variety of television shows and feature films in the sci-fi/fantasy, superhero, horror, and Western genres. Michael hosted a handful of the shows on the podcast network before it dissolved in 2017, only to continue into the digital media space at outlets such as Looper, Collider, Superman Homepage, and more. Aside from simply writing about his favorite stories, Michael also writes some fantastical tales of his own. Screenplays, teleplays, short stories, novellas, you name it, he's written it. Michael is currently working on a follow-up to his debut work of fiction, "The Beast of Bear-tooth Mountain," which quickly rose to a #1 Best Seller in "Religious Fiction Short Stories" on Amazon in 2023. His Western short story, "The Devil's Left Hand," was released in 2024.

Education

Michael has a Bachelor of Arts in film and photography from Montana State University, specializing in film production and screenwriting.
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