They stayed on, and after hashing it out, Coto suggested, “What if a nuclear bomb became sentient?” “Let’s not hang up until we come up with an idea that we can sell for a million dollars,” Helgeland said. At a time when spec script sales were rising, Coto and Helgeland famously hatched the idea on the phone. It told the story of a bomb squad officer in pursuit of a cyborg equipped with a nuclear weapon. Giggles, a horror film Coto co-wrote and directed in 1992, largely went unnoticed when it premiered, but it has since garnered cult status and a recent Blu-ray re-issue from Shout! Factory.Ĭoto’s family also cited The Ticking Man, an unproduced screenplay he co-wrote with partner Brian Helgeland in 1990 that was the first feature screenplay to sell for $1 million. He also directed Zenon: The Zequel for Disney Channel.ĭr.
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While there, Coto made the horror short Jack in the Box, which led him to do an episode of the syndicated series Monsters, then an episode of a re-booted Alfred Hitchcock Presents, where he wrote and directed a new version of Twist.Īll that led to Coto’s first feature work: Playroom, a horror thriller about a doomed archeologist played by Christopher McDonald Cover-Up, a political thriller starring Dolph Lundgren and Star Kid, a family sci-fi film starring Joseph Mazzello. He met actress Tippi Hedren and persuaded her to star in his murder mystery pic Twist - which, along with a 16mm-shot pic called Roommates he shot during college, got him into the American Film Institute.
Raised near Walt Disney World in Orlando, he used his dad’s Super8 camera as a teenager to make a horror film, Flesh and later an MCU-themed pic called The Incredible Bulk, starring his wrestler friend Tico Perez in green body paint.Ĭoto relocated to Los Angeles in 1983, where he began working in commercials. It lasted one season on Fox.īorn on June 10, 1961, in Havana, Coto and his mother fled the Castro regime and were joined later by his father. NeXt starred Mad Men alum John Slattery in a fact-based thriller about the emergence of a deadly, rogue artificial intelligence and combines action with an examination of how technology is invading our lives and transforming us in ways we don’t yet understand. That drama premiered in 2002 and ran for two seasons, telling the story of a Space Shuttle crew thrown back in time five years to prevent Earth’s destruction. – TCAĬoto created and ran the 2020 series NeXt for Fox and created Showtime’s Odyssey 5, starring Peter Weller.
RELATED: Manny Coto Fox Series ‘NeXt’: Why We Should Really Be Afraid Of A.I. The family’s representative said Coto’s lifelong love of Star Trek permeated his life and worldview - and that his impression of William Shatner as Captain Kirk left his writing staffs in stitches. He also was an EP on the final three seasons of Showtime’s Dexter, scoring an Outstanding Drama Series Emmy nom in 2011, and EP’d the last two seasons of UPN’s Star Trek: Enterprise. He will be immensely missed by all who were fortunate to have known and worked with him over the years, and our sincere condolences go out to his beautiful family at this most difficult time.” “He was brilliantly creative with a deep intellectual curiosity, and his loyalty and friendship touched many. “Manny was an incredibly beloved member of the 20 th Television and FX family for close to two decades, 20th Television and FX said in a statement.
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