Milwaukee Proud
At first glance, it doesn't look like too many science fiction personalities have come out of Milwaukee. But if you dig a little deeper, you find many names, big and little, that represent our home town. Here are the ones I've been able to find so far: John Ridley, Jr. He's written for smaller projects like Team Knight Rider, but after writing and directing the science fiction drama Needle In A Timestack (2021), he has become Milwaukee's biggest name in sci fi. He is also one of Milwaukee's biggest names in Hollywood overall, as he has previously written the Oscar-winning screenplay to 12 Years A Slave, and his unpublished novel "Spoils of War" was made into the film Three Kings (1999). He is currently writing Black Panther comics. Gene Wilder If you count films like Young Frankenstein and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as science fiction films (and technically they do qualify) then Gene Wilder is one of the biggest sci fi actors to come out of