About the Screenwriter

Combine a love for Star Trek, Star Wars and other outer space spectacles with four years in the Marine Corps Infantry and you get Red Planet the screenplay by Tom Wakefield.

Tom grew up with a love for all things outer space, including TV shows, movies, science books, telescopes and more. After high school he joined the military and served four years in the Marine Corps Infantry as a TOW Gunner, the operator of an anti-tank missile system. He served two tours in MEUSOCS (Marine Expeditionary Unit Special Operations Capable) in the Western Pacific and traveled to lands such as the Philippines, Korea, Thailand, and many other countries. His life experiences came together in the screenplay Red Planet, which pits a futuristic squad of Marines against a renegade Soviet colony on Mars.

Tom currently owns and runs a couple of very popular Websites, including MilitaryNewsNetwork.com, a military site that features global military news and information.

You can reach Tom at 469-360-9134 or at militarynetwork@gmail.com.