Jeff Loveness is an American screenwriter, television producer, actor, and comic book writer who has worked on the television series ''

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'' and '' Rick and Morty,'' as well as the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe films '' Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania'' and '' Avengers: The Kang Dynasty''.

Career

Loveness started his career by writing several television episodes for ''

'' and '' Miracle Workers''. He later gained notability for writing four

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'' Rick and Morty'' episodes. Soon after, he was hired by

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to write the screenplay for '' Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania''. In December 2020, Loveness revealed that he had turned in the first draft of the script, and said Marvel had used the COVID-19 pandemic break to "do something new and weird" with the film. He came back in 2021 to write the ''Rick and Morty'' season 5 opening episode "

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" and the finale, "

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", which is his final episode of the show. In September 2022, Loveness was confirmed to work again with Marvel Studios by writing the screenplay for '' Avengers: The Kang Dynasty''. In March 2015, Loveness wrote a comic series centered around the Marvel Comics character Groot, alongside artist Brian Kesinger. In May 2017, he wrote several comic issues centered around other Marvel characters, including

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and

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Filmography

Accolades

Bibliography

Marvel Comics

* Groot (2015) *

(2017) *

(2017)

References

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