wrote the story for the 2016 film The Great Wall, starring Matt Damon. In 2016, Brooks was invited to MineCon and announced that he was working on a new novel based on Minecraft, titled Minecraft: The Island, and in 2021, he published the sequel, Minecraft: The Mountain. In August 2019, Brooks' announced a new book, entitled Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre, about the cryptid Bigfoot. It was released on June 16, 2020. Acting and voice-over work Brooks has a number of other creative credits. As an actor, he has been seen in Roseanne, To Be or Not to Be, Pacific Blue, and 7th Heaven. He also has a career voicing animation: his voice has been featured in the animated shows Batman Beyond, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Justice League, and All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series. During the start of the 3rd season of Lost Tapes, he was cast as himself in the zombie episode, telling the audience about how zombies come to be. He also appeared on Spike TV series Deadliest Warrior, in which he represented the zombie team in the "Vampires vs. Zombies" episode, as one of the Zombie experts along with Matt Mogk, founder of the Zombie Research Society. Personal life Brooks has been married to playwright Michelle Kholos since 2003. They have one son, Henry Michael Brooks (born March 2005), and live in Venice, California. In October 2020, Brooks and his son appeared in a short video featuring Mel Brooks making his first political video at age 94 to endorse Joe Biden for president. Filmography Bibliography Prose The Zombie Survival Guide (2003) World War Z (2006) Closure, Limited and Other Zombie Tales (2011) Minecraft: The Island (2018) Devolution (2020) Minecraft: The Mountain (March 2, 2021) Comics The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks (2009) G.I. Joe: Hearts and Minds (2010) The Harlem Hellfighters (2014) The Extinction Parade (2014) A More Perfect Union (2016) Germ Warfare: A Very Graphic History (2019) References External links 1972 births Living people 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors American comics writers American humorists American male film actors American male television actors American male television writers American male voice actors American male writers American people of German-Jewish descent American writers of Italian descent American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent American television writers American University alumni Crossroads School alumni Writers with dyslexia Actors with dyslexia Male actors from