Ben Queen

Benjamin Queen is an American writer and producer. He was the creator/showrunner for the NBC television show A to Z. He wrote the screenplays for MGM's The Addams Family 2 and the Pixar animated movie Cars 2, and co-wrote the story for Cars 3. He was also the creator of the NBC television series, Powerless and the co-creator and executive producer of the Fox television series, Drive. He is the author of the graphic novel Bear, which was published by Archaia and Boom! Studios in September 2020. It was listed as one of the New York Public Library's 100 Books of the Year for 2020. In 2021, it was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers. It also won the EGLA Award for Best Children's Graphic Novel—Fiction. He wrote and produced the pilot Heart of Life for ABC and 20th Television in 2019, which was based on John Mayer's song. He is adapting A Note of Explanation by Vita Sackville-West into a live-action feature film for Netflix. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benjamin Queen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Cars 3

Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn't through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing’s biggest stage!

Release Date2017-06-15

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count6102

Cars 2

Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.

Release Date2011-06-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count8115

The Addams Family 2

The Addams get tangled up in more wacky adventures and find themselves involved in hilarious run-ins with all sorts of unsuspecting characters.

Release Date2021-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1346

Powerless

Emily Locke lands her dream job as Director of Research and Development for Wayne Security in Charm City, home to super heroes and villains and citizens fed up with the collateral damage of their constant fighting.

Release Date2017-02-02

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count9

Vote Count162

Drive

Drive is an American action drama television series set against the backdrop of an illegal cross-country automobile road race, focusing on the willing and unwilling competitors and, as the plot develops, the unseen puppet masters who sponsor the race. Minear has described the show's thematic tone by saying "a secret, illegal, underground road race can be anything from Cannonball Run to The Game to North by Northwest to Magnolia-on-wheels. Ours is all those things."

Release Date2007-04-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count33

A to Z

The story follows the lives of Andrew, an employee at an internet dating site who dreams of meeting the girl of his dreams, and Zelda, a no-nonsense lawyer who was raised by a hippie mother and carries a rebellious streak. By an accidental chance of fate, Zelda meets Andrew to resolve a mismatch dating dispute and these two single people suddenly find themselves falling for each other.

Release Date2014-10-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count39

Heart of Life

Two sets of adult siblings from wildly different worlds who discover they're related and must reassess everything they thought they knew about their shared father.

Release Date2019-03-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Proximity

When William Conroy (Rob Lowe), a former college professor, is sentenced to life in prison for vehicular manslaughter it seems his life is over. But when a fellow inmate tells him that in the past two years fourteen inmates have died at the prison, and then turns up dead the next day, Conroy realizes he is in more danger than he ever imagined. Conroy's suspicions are confirmed when the van carrying the inmates crashes. Seizing the opportunity, Conroy flees the scene and elicits the help of his lawyer. What the two discover is a grisly murder ring set up within the prison walls that incriminates those at the highest levels of the correctional system.

Release Date2001-04-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count7

Drift

When his estranged son vanishes during a space mission, a once-legendary, now fallen from grace shuttle commander is pulled into a high-stakes hostage exchange in space to get his boy back from captors who are not from Earth.

DepartmentWriting

JobShort Story

Cola Wars

A behind-the-scenes account of Pepsi's attempt to challenge Coca-Cola's century-long reign as the world's top cola, sparking the unforgettable "Cola Wars" of the mid-1980s

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Untitled His Majesty's Dragons Project

Set during an alternate-history version of the Napoleonic Wars, in which dragons not only exist but are piloted like skyships and choose their own masters, the series centers primarily on events involving titular dragon Temeraire and his handler, Will Laurence.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count1