Tracy Tormé has passed away... RIP

Tracy Tormé was born on April 12, 1959 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. Has passed away on January 4, 2024 in Escondido, California, USA. The writer and producer was known for Fire in the Sky (1993), I Am Legend (2007) and Sliders (1995). He was married to Jennifer Marie Tormé and Robin Tormé. He was the son of legendary singer, and actor "Mel Tormé" who at an elderly age was a often seen on the show Night Court playing himself as he was a hero to the main Judge on the show.
Tormé began his career in the 1970s, as a writer on SCTV.[1] From 1982 to 1983, he was a writer for Saturday Night Live. Later in the decade, he was a story editor and writer on the first two seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but left over creative differences. In 1991 with Barry Oringer, Tormé wrote the screenplay for the miniseries Intruders which ran on CBS in May 1992. Intruders that was based on the book of the same name by Budd Hopkins. With Robert K. Weiss he co-created the television series Sliders, which ran 1995–2000 which I still am a BIG fan off.

Other series he wrote for included Odyssey 5 and Carnivàle. He was credited as a co-producer on the 2007 film I Am Legend, and wrote an early treatment for the project. Tormé wrote the screenplay for the 1993 film Fire in the Sky based on Travis Walton's book The Walton Experience. While it's a great movie in what it is the film has been a movie that left Travis upset with the outcome not being what actually happened as the studio made the Director change the story to make it more "SCARY" but the original treatment by Tracy was very good and more faithful. Overall Tracy was a hell of a good writer and very underrated. At least very under used as one in Hollywood for some reason or another I'm not sure about the workings as to why BUT this is all history now... He will be missed by not just myself here but by the Millions of people who loved his work.