Robert Meyer Burnett

Beginning in the late 1990s, he began working as a "predator," a producer-editor, for television promotions. Beginning working with Star Wars fan film producer Kevin Rubio, Burnett created dozens of promos for the Kids WB programming block. Beginning in December 1999, he was hired full-time by NBC, creating over 100 spots for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Dubbed "The Complete Olympics," it was the first time NBC broadcast the games over three platforms, NBC, MSNBC and CNBS. After the Olympics were aired, he continued on, creating spots for the 2000-2001 Prime Time season, including conceiving and even voicing the notorious XFL Cheerleader spots. In December 2000, he left NBC to join high-end content producers Kurtti-Pellerin, which exclusively created documentary special features for DVDs. Burnett produced extras for titles 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. He directed and edited the feature-length Making of Tron, which was nominated for the DVD Premiere Award for Original Retrospective Documentary at the 2003 DVD Exclusive Awards. While still working at Kurtti-Pellerin, Burnett formed his own production company, Ludovico Technique LLC. Ludovico 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. As a feature 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 2021, Burnett completed producing and editing Tango Shalom, the last appearance of actor Joseph Bologna.

Burnett made his feature writing and directing debut with the 1999 award-winning film Free Enterprise, starring Eric McCormack and William Shatner, which he also edited. Beginning in 2010, Burnett has directed and edited five episodes of the Cinemax series Femme Fatales.[1][2][3]

Burnett began his professional writing career as the "Critic at Large" for the Larry Flynt-published Sci-Fi Universe magazine in the mid-90s. He recently wrote an essay for a Blade Runner anthology, The Cyberpunk Nexus: Exploring the Blade Runner Universe, published by Sequart Organization, on July 10, 2018. He currently 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. Three 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] Until November 2021 contributed regularly to the YouTube show of his good friend and fellow filmmaker John Campea (titled The John Campea Show).[7]

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 one retweet and attached commentary over the shooting of retired police captain David Dorn. Appalled at a video of the former police captain laying dead on a sidewalk, Burnett angrily mused about the absence of a second amendment advocate to apply deadly force to save Dorn's life. Former Schmoedown personality Robert Butler III took offense with Burnett's commentary, and retweeted Burnett's words without the accompanying video. This led to several Schmoedown fans and personalities also voicing their displeasure with Burnett's comments, including Schmoedown host and co-creator Kristian Harloff, which resulted in his release from the trivia league. 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 but in November 2021 it was announced that Meyer Burnett would no longer regularly appear on Campea's show.[9]