Blankman is a 1994 American superhero comedy-parody film directed by Mike Binder and starring Damon Wayans and David Alan Grier, both of whom were also cast members of the 1990-1994 Fox Network sketch comedy television series, In Living Color. It was written by Wayans and J. F. Lawton, whose biggest success was writing Pretty Woman and Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death.