Jerry O’Flaherty, full name Jeremiah O’Flaherty, was born in Irving, a suburb of Dallas, Texas.  He is the fourth of ten children.  His father emigrated to the United States from Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland.  Therefore, O’Flaherty holds dual American/Irish citizenship.  He now lives in Santa Monica, California.  In his spare time O’Flaherty loves to paint.

His artistic talents have led to him being best known as Art Director on Gears of War from Epic Games.  He started his career in the game industry at sixteen years old.  By the age of twenty-four he partly owned video game developer KoP Media and sold it to Seventh Level two years later.  He was one of the original founders and owners of game company Ion Storm.  In 2003, O’Flaherty was given the role of Studio Art Director of Epic Games, dealing with the direction of Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 3.  He worked on the Command and Conquer series whilst employed by the innovative but now defunct Westwood Studios in Las Vegas, later absorbed into EA Los Angeles.

As well directing video games, O’Flaherty studied film at the University of North Texas near Dallas so he is more than well equipped to direct Thundercats The Movie.  I also think that if the high standard of Gears of War is anything to go by O’Flaherty will do us proud with this movie!    

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