Andy Briggs Explained

Andy Briggs
Birth Date:	27 September 1972
Birth Place:	Liverpool, England
Occupation:	Author and Screenwriter
Period:	1991–present
Pseudonym:	M.G. Cole (for the DCI Garrick book series)
Birth Name:	Andrew Briggs
Relatives:	Peter Briggs (brother)

Andrew Briggs (born 27 September 1972)^[1] is a British author and screenwriter. He wrote the Hero.com series and the Villain.net young adult novels, which are due to be developed into a television series.

Briggs career began as an uncredited writer working on story development for in 1991. Since then he has worked alone and with his brother Peter Briggs on a number of projects, including the Stan Lee and Robert Evans Paramount Pictures project Foreverman. More recent television work has included story development for the Sci-Fi Channel, BKN Kids and Disney XD.

In the mid-2000s he did some writing for comics,^[2] and began to develop his Hero.com/Villain.net series of young adult novels.^[3] This led to a new series of young adult Tarzan novels.^[4]

Briggs has acknowledged Gordon Boshell's "Captain Cobwebb" books as an early influence.^[5] He would often go to places to experience how it feels.

Credits

TV & film

Source:^[6]

• Passage of the Four (aka Screaming Night) (2002 film): writer
• Rise of the Gargoyles (2009 TV film): writer
• Ghost Town (2009 TV film): writer
• Dark Relic (2010 TV film): writer
• Blake: Double Identity (2011 TV Series): head writer
• The Philadelphia Experiment (2012 TV film): writer
• Legendary (2013): writer and executive producer
• (2016 TV Series): writer (season 1 episode 8: "Bionic Arms Race")
• Crowhurst (2017 feature film): writer
• Redcon-1 (2018 feature film): special thanks
• Supervized (2019 feature film): writer
• The Bastard King (2020 film): narrator
• A Conspiracy Classic - The Making of the Philadelphia Experiment (2020 documentary): himself
• King of Shadows (2021 film): writer
• Shanghai Concession (Upcoming film): writer

Comics

• (2007–2008)
• Ritual (2009)
• DinoCorps (2012)
• Ritual 2: The Resurrection (2015)
• Madison Dark (2018)
• MEAT (2018)
• Cold War (2019)

Novels

Hero.com Rise of the Heroes (June 2008) Virus Attack (October 2008) Crisis Point (July 2009) Chaos Effect (March 2010)

Villain.net Council of Evil (June 2008) Dark Hunter (October 2008) Power Surge (July 2009) Collision course (March 2010)

• Tarzan:
  • The Greystoke Legacy (June 2011)
  • The Jungle Warrior (July 2012)
  • The Savage Lands (February 2013)
• Edge:
  • Warrior Number One (November 2011)
• Project X:
  • Reign of the Practari (April 2015)
  • Steam Pirates (April 2015)
• How to be an International Spy: Your Training Manual, Should You Choose to Accept it (September 2015)
• Spy Quest - Polybius: The Urban Legend (November 2015)
• CTRL+S (November 2019)
• Marlow (November 2020)
• The Majestic Files:
  • Epicenter (December 2020)
  • Chem (March 2021)
  • Phantom Land (August 2022)
  • Point Nemo (August 2022)
• Drone Racer (August 2022)
• The Inventory:
  • Iron Fist (August 2022)
  • Gravity (August 2022)
  • Black Knight (August 2022)
  • Winter Storm (August 2022)
• Terror Tales of the West Country (October 2022)
• Monsterville (October 2023)
• Trigger Effect (April 2025)https://amzn.eu/d/eBR64Yf

As M.G. Cole

• DCI Garrick:
  • Slaughter of Innocents (March 2021)
  • Murder is Skin Deep (April 2021)
  • The Dead Will Talk (May 2021)
  • Dead Man's Game (October 2021)
  • Cleansing Fires (July 2022)
  • The Dead Don't Pay (December 2022)
  • A Murder of Lies (August 2023)
  • Siren's Call (August 2024)
  • A Degree of Murder (August 2025)https://amzn.eu/d/hmiskzc

Picture books

• Tinch (May 2022)
• Monster Knights (September 2022)

External links

• • Andy Briggs's Official Website
• Official Website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Home . andybriggs.co.uk.
2. Web site: Southport.TV . 4 July 2012 . 24 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160324072728/http://southport.tv/silverlight/andy-briggs/user-hp%2029-03-2012%2013.02.00/ . dead .
3. http://www.southportreporter.com/545/ Southport Reporter
4. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/30/tarzan-new-novels Guardian.Co.UK
5. http://www.oup.com/oxed/children/authors/briggsa/, Author biography on Oxford University Press website, Retrieved 30 March 2012
6. Web site: Andy Briggs Writer, Producer, Director . 2024-09-10 . IMDb . en-US.