Robert Meyer Burnett

Robert Meyer Burnett (born May 15, 1967) is an American filmmaker, DVD producer and, online film pundit and YouTuber. Burnett directed Free Enterprise and the short film The Sacred Fire. He has also edited over 10 feature films, and worked as a Star Trek consultant for Viacom Interactive and Paramount Parks' Star Trek: The Experience located at the Las Vegas Hilton.

Robert Meyer Burnett
Burnett at WonderCon 2015
Born (1967-05-15) May 15, 1967
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationFilmmaker, Online online film pundit and analyst YouTuber

Burnett has twice been a guest of honor at the science, science fiction, and fantasy convention, CONvergence.

Career

Working for NBC, Burnett wrote, edited, produced, or directed over 100 promotional clips for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, and the 2000/2001 NBC lineup, including producing and voicing the notorious XFL Cheerleader commercials.

Producer

After joining Kurtti-Pellerin, Burnett produced extras for special edition DVDs including The Walt Disney Company's The Fantasia Anthology and Snow White, and New Line Cinema's Extended Editions of Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. Burnett's production company, Ludovico Technique LLC has worked on the DVD Special Editions for Oscar-winning The Usual Suspects, Valley Girl, Superman Returns, Spider-Man, X-Men 1.5, X2, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He edited, wrote and produced all the special features for Blu-ray release of Star Trek: The Next Generation Complete Series box set released on June 7, 2016; he also contributed to the Blu-ray of all four seasons of Star Trek: Enterprise, with season four being released on April 1, 2014. Most recently, he, along with director Dave Parker, completed 6.5 hours of special features for the Blu-ray release of their film, The Hills Run Red, released by Scream Factory on June 16, 2020.

Writer/Director

Burnett made his feature writing and directing debut with the 1999 film Free Enterprise, starring Eric McCormack and William Shatner, which he also edited. As a film producer, he co-produced Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Agent Cody Banks and its sequel, Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, and developed and produced the 2009 Warner Premiere and Dark Castle's The Hills Run Red. In 2020, Burnett completed producing and editing Tango Shalom, the last appearance of actor Joseph Bologna. Beginning in 2010, Burnett has directed and edited five episodes of the Cinemax series Femme Fatales.[1][2][3]

Critic

Robert also runs a successful YouTube channel and website both entitled The Burnettwork and presents his own show titled Robservations which provides in depth online video analysis of new and classic TV and film content for the film fan community and aspiring filmmakers. Two episodes of Robservations which garnered widespread attention in particular were those focusing on an alternative script for the final film in the Star Wars sequel trilogy ( which Meyer Burnett has been highly critical of). The draft script entitled 'Duel of the Fates' had radically different (and in Robert's view superior) ideas to the ideas shown on screen in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.[4][5][6] Rob also contributes regularly to the YouTube show of his good friend and fellow filmmaker John Campea (titled The John Campea Show).[7]

2020 Twitter controversy

Until June 2020, he was a manager on the Schmoedown Entertainment Network‘s Movie Trivia Schmoedown show, but was removed from this role due to a series of controversial tweets over the shooting of retired police captain David Dorn. Former Schmoedown personality Robert Butler III had taken offense with the tweets as an African American and called for his cancellation from the Schmoedown community, gaining the support of other Schmoedown personalities and a section of fans on Twitter. Although Burnett issued on apology video on his YouTube channel and spoke with Butler privately to apologize (to which Butler accepted), he was not reinstated to the Movie Trivia Schmoedown.[8] He nonetheless was allowed to keep his role of guest contributor/co host on The John Campea Show despite this incident after a short hiatus and still contributes on that show as of January 2021.[9]

References
  1. "Robert Meyer Burnett". Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  2. Williams, David E. (2007). "DVD producer Robert Meyer Burnett on bonus extras, Blu-ray and beyond". Digital Video Magazine. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  3. "2008 Guests of Honor". CONvergence. 2008-06-14. Archived from the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  4. "PT. 1: A LOOK AT THE STAR WARS EPISODE IX: DUEL OF THE FATES SCREENPLAY - ROBSERVATIONS S2 #317 - YouTube". www.youtube.com.
  5. "PT. 2: A CONTINUING LOOK AT THE EPISODE IX DUEL OF THE FATES SCRIPT. ROBSERVATIONS Season Two #318 - YouTube". www.youtube.com.
  6. "MY THOUGHTS ON THE RISE OF SKYWALKER. ROBSERVATIONS Live Chat #298 - YouTube". www.youtube.com.
  7. "Not Done With Thor Says Chris Hemsworth - YouTube". www.youtube.com.
  8. "A Sincere Apology. - YouTube". www.youtube.com.
  9. "She-Hulk Casts Tatiana Maslany In Lead For New Disney+ Show - YouTube". www.youtube.com.
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