Lorenzo De Luca born near Rome, to parents not involved in the movie-business. While attending secondary school, he started to write articles about movies, debuting as a writer in 1987 with a book about Italian westerns, followed by another one about war-movies and a series of four books about Bruce Lee and Kung-Fu pics. His debut as screenwriter arrived in 1991 with TV serial Extralarge: Miami Killer (1991) (TV), starred by European star Bud Spencer. He followed with more scripts for both little and big screen until his breakthrough thanks to the Italian Christmas blockbuster _Merry Christmas (2002)_ in 2002.