Super Ninja was born in the early 80's as a superhero I envisioned that tied in much of my childhood love for action and adventure stories and my lifelong pursuit of martial arts.

The story wouldn't really find a focus until by what still feels like a miracle, after nearly thirty years of training and winning the MiddleWeight division of International Full Contact Stick Fighting Championship, I was invited to join the fourth installment of the American Ninja series filming in South Africa with Michael Dudikof and David Bradley, directed by Cedric Sundström, getting to do action, stunts, choreography, and as chance would have it, step in to play the character Super Ninja.

By the time we wrapped production, I had written my first screenplay, which I later sold and starred in, and started back on my first writing attempt, Spy Dancer. As I was actively pursuing more film opportunities, that story was set aside and I wrote my first draft of the screenplay Super Ninja.

The story and style had very little to do with the character in the American Ninja series, and was much closer to a true superhero origin story along the vein of Captain America or Spiderman.

Within a couple years, I was able to present the story to Menachem Golan who jumped at it. Within a week I had signed a three-picture deal to star and write, and my face was in hurried ads in his company's brochure for the Cannes Film festival, along with full page and even a double page ads in Variety magazine.

Little did I know or understand how his company was struggling and soon Menahem left Hollywood and moved back to Israel.

Though I never made it big in Hollywood, film has been intrinsic to my life since that first taste in 1990 where with my enthusiasm and the generosity of Cedric and my early film mentor Mike Stone, I played a dozen 'utility roles,' got to double both the stars, and played the character Super Ninja.

I was able to stay in touch with Menahem, served as his 1st AD and post production supervisor on one of his films, and traded ideas back and forth for more action movies that sadly never happened. I can honestly say we were friends and that I miss him and his council.

Lucky enough to write and direct three independent feature films of my own and winning dozens of awards for nearly every category at smaller film festivals across the globe, and writing, good or bad, more than 30 feature screenplays, and then delayed by the pandemic to direct what for me would have been a huge international production in Cameroon and across France, I completed my first novel; the science-fiction horror story LOOP, and followed it with the international action thriller BLACK FIRE.

Which brings me back to SUPER NINJA... a superhero story 50 years in the making.

The novel, as intense as my other stories and screenplays, is a far cry from my first writing attempts. It has kept much of original story that I presented to Menachem nearly 30 years ago, captures the wonder of the early stories of Tarzan and John Carter and the Greek and Roman mythology I grew up on, and ties in some of evolving technologies and dangers we will be forced to deal with today and in our evolving future.

I'm pushing hard to have SUPER NINJA in hand, and on shelves, in early to mid-Spring 2024. And with a bit of luck, and maybe, with another miracle, find a way to bring SUPER NINJA to the screen.