Biography
John Palmer entered the entertainment industry over forty-five years ago as a performer on the original Walt Disney production of the Mickey Mouse Club. He came back to the film industry in the early 80s when he joined WonderWorks. Late in the 1990s, along with several other Hollywood professional he formed a production company, now called Tranquility Base Pictures to develop, finance, produce and distribute movie and television properties. In addition John is a graduate of the University of Southern California with a Masters Degree in Finance, and so brings a powerful business foundation as well as practical background to any film project. He has contributed to the fields of museums, expositions/fairs, theme parks, motion picture and television. John has been involved in every aspect of concept origination, ride, show and display design, set-model construction, fabrication-coordination, special & visual effects, production management, financial administration and, of course, day-to-day management. As production supervisor, for years he oversaw the creation of an endless number of show designs, sets, rigs, ships, buildings, planes, trains and automobiles tra la! A talent, which showed up early in his carrier, was an ability in special and visual effects. He has a natural talent for tricks, rigs and gags, stop motion and motion control and has originated a number of special tools to enhance these film elements. It was gratifying for him to work again with Disney in the mid 80s, supplying many of the sets for the then cutting edge 3D, live special effects driven entertainment spectacular, "Captain EO". His most memorable project was the film, "The Abyss," where he was in charge of over all production of special effects ocean going ships, as well as both "wet" and "dry-for-wet" ship models for this $80 million production. Finally in mid 1995, he worked on MCA/Universal's award winning film "Apollo 13." he also worked on "Deep Impact", "Armageddon", "Space Cowboys" and ending in 2004 with "The Day After Tomorrow" to mention but a few. During the last ten years he has written several screen plays, created a barrel full of treatments and produced a number specialty films for them parks and museums. In 2000 he co-wrote "Rocket's Red Glare" with a Tranquility Base colleague. The company produced the film in association with Fox Family Channel, and in 2005 completed "Deep Rescue" as an executive producer. 2009 he completed TRUNK as executive producer and it hit the market early 2010. In addition in late 2009 John went to work with Ilya Sulkind (best known for the "3&4 Musketeers", "Superman I, II & II", "Santa Clause", "Christopher Columbus" and other tent pole films) to produce his next big $100 million film titled "The Abominable Snowman". As Executive Vice President of Production, John will handle all development and production for the company.
