Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 164 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Gary Witta.

He wrote the screenplay for the post-apocalyptic thriller The Book of Eli,

starring Dental Washington and Gary Oldman, and also worked on the script for After Earth, a sci-fi adventure starring Will Smith and directed by M Knight-Shymelon. Gary has also written for video games and comics,

and he also worked on the upcoming feature film Star Wars Rogue One,

which unfortunately he is strictly forbidden from discussing.

He recently used the Inc shares crowdfunding platform

to publish his first novel, Abomination.

And now here's our interview with Gary Witta.

All right, so we're here with Gary Witto.

Welcome to the show.

Hello?

Okay, so you started your career as a game reviewer.

So just tell us a bit about how you got involved with that.

Yeah, I started, geez, I mean, I started like way back in the 8 the eight bit days of of computer gaming I was a I was

reading the Commodore 64 games magazines and playing you know kind of Sinclair spectrum

and see 64 games I grew up in the UK so I was much more a child of kind of the

the Commodore and the Sinclair computer game world than I was really in Nintendo and Sega but I grew up

loving those 8-bit games and transitioned into the 16-bit era, right as I was kind of leaving school

and desperately wanted to kind of do something like this for a living. I know that I love video

games. I really wanted to write and you know it was kind of a combination of writing being the only thing

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