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Ehren Kruger

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Ehren Kruger
Born (1972-10-05) October 5, 1972 (age 52)
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
OccupationScreenwriter, film producer
Years active1998–present

Ehren Kruger (born October 5, 1972) is an American screenwriter and film producer. He is best known for writing three of the five films in the Transformers film series which are Revenge of the Fallen, Dark of the Moon and Age of Extinction.[1]

Life and career[]

Kruger was raised in Alexandria, Virginia, and attended the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, graduating in 1990.[2] He graduated from New York University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.[3]

His produced screenplays include Arlington Road, Scream 3 and Reindeer Games.[4] He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay for The Ring.[5]

He also did uncredited rewrites to Scream 4, when Kevin Williamson had to leave production.[6][7]

Early on in his career after penning the screenplay Arlington Road, he received the Nicholl Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (an international competition open to new screenwriters) in 1996.[8] Kruger wrote the script of the television series adaption of Terry Gilliam's film The Brothers Grimm.[9]

Filmography[]

Film
Year Film Credit Director Studio Rotten Tomatoes
1998 Killers in the House Writer Michael Schultz Studios USA -[10]
1999 Arlington Road Writer Mark Pellington Screen Gems
PolyGram Pictures 		62%[11]
1999 New World Disorder Writer Richard Spence Carousel Picture Company 17%[12]
2000 Scream 3 Writer Wes Craven Dimension Films 36%[13]
2000 Dracula 2000 Uncredited; re-writes Patrick Lussier 17%
2000 Reindeer Games Writer John Frankenheimer 25%[14]
2002 Impostor Screenplay Gary Fleder 22%
2002 The Ring Screenplay Gore Verbinski DreamWorks Pictures 72%[15]
2005 Rings Co-writer Jonathan Liebesman
2005 The Ring Two Writer Hideo Nakata 20%[16]
2005 The Skeleton Key Writer Iain Softley Universal Studios 39%[17]
2005 The Brothers Grimm Writer
Producer 		Terry Gilliam Miramax Films 37%[18]
2007 Blood & Chocolate Screenplay
Executive producer 		Katja von Garnier Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 11%[19]
2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Co-Writer Michael Bay DreamWorks Pictures
Paramount Pictures 		19%[20]
2011 Dream House Producer Jim Sheridan Universal Studios 6%[21]
2011 Scream 4 Executive producer, Uncredited Rewrites Wes Craven Dimension Films 58%[22]
2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon Writer Michael Bay Paramount Pictures 36%[23]
2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction Writer 18%[24]
2017 Rings Executive producer F. Javier Gutiérrez 6%
2017 Ghost in the Shell Co-Writer Rupert Sanders 46%
2018 Ophelia Producer Claire McCarthy - -
2019 Dumbo Writer
Producer 		Tim Burton Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures -

References[]

  1. ↑ Ehren Kruger Returns to Write TRANSFORMERS 4; Shia LaBeouf Definitely Out
  2. ↑ Grove, Lloyd (1999-07-09). "THE RELIABLE SOURCE" (in en-US). Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/07/09/the-reliable-source/39a102ad-e1c7-4b26-bf57-77d0b60b3c7b/. 
  3. ↑ "Features" (in en). https://tisch.nyu.edu/alumni/tisch-at-sundance/2018-sundance/premieres. 
  4. ↑ "'Scream 3' Writer Working on Fourth Film, Actors Pissed?". Bloody Disgusting. {{cite web}}:
  5. ↑ "Horror Writers Association - Past Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". horror.org. Retrieved 2018-07-28. {{cite web}}:
  6. ↑ "'Transformers' Writer Boards Disney Mountain Adventure Movie (Exclusive)" (in en). The Hollywood Reporter. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/transformers-matterhorn-ehren-kruger-brian-beletic-293843. 
  7. ↑ Sharkey, Betsy (2011-04-15). "Movie review: 'Scream 4'" (in en-US). Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/15/entertainment/la-et-scream4-20110415. 
  8. ↑ "Ehren Kruger Arlington Road" (PDF). {{cite web}}: ;
  9. ↑ The Brothers Grimm Headed to the Small Screen
  10. ↑ "Killers in the House (1998)". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. {{cite web}}:
  11. ↑ Arlington Road - Rotten Tomatoes
  12. ↑ New World Disorder - Rotten Tomatoes
  13. ↑ "Scream 3 (Cream of the Crop)". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. {{cite web}}:
  14. ↑ "Reindeer Games (Deception) (2000)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 16, 2011. {{cite web}}:
  15. ↑ "The Ring". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-07-29. {{cite web}}:
  16. ↑ "The Ring Two". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2012-11-06. {{cite web}}:
  17. ↑ "The Skeleton Key – Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures – Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2009-11-02. {{cite web}}:
  18. ↑ "The Brothers Grimm". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-12-10. {{cite web}}:
  19. ↑ Blood and Chocolate. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 02 July 2013
  20. ↑ "Rotten Tomatoes T-Meter Rating of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". Rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 2013-02-20. {{cite web}}:
  21. ↑ "Dream House (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved August 12, 2011. {{cite web}}:
  22. ↑ "Scream 4 (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved August 12, 2011. {{cite web}}:
  23. ↑ "Rotten Tomatoes T-Meter Rating of Transformers: Dark of the Moon". Rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 2013-02-20. {{cite web}}:
  24. ↑ "Transformers: Age of Extinction". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-08-04. {{cite web}}:

External links[]

Films by Ehren Kruger
Written Killers in the House (1998) • Arlington Road (1999) • New World Disorder (1999) • Scream 3 (2000) • Reindeer Games (2000) • Impostor (2001) • The Ring (2002) • Rings (2005) • The Ring Two (2005) • The Skeleton Key (2005) • The Brothers Grimm (2005) • Blood & Chocolate (2007) • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) • Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) • Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) • Ghost in the Shell (2017) • Dumbo (2019, also produced) • Top Gun: Maverick (2021)
Produced Dream House (2011) • Ophelia (2018)
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay
1980–2000 Can't Stop the Music – Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr (1980) • Mommie Dearest – Frank Yablans, Frank Perry, Tracy Hotchner and Robert Getchell (1981) • Inchon – Robin Moore and Laird Koenig (1982) • The Lonely Lady – John Kershaw, Shawn Randall and Ellen Shephard (1983) • Bolero – John Derek (1984) • Rambo: First Blood Part II – Sylvester Stallone, James Cameron and Kevin Jarre (1985) • Howard the Duck – Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz (1986) • Leonard Part 6 – Jonathan Reynolds and Bill Cosby (1987) • Cocktail – Heywood Gould (1988) • Harlem Nights – Eddie Murphy (1989) • The Adventures of Ford Fairlane – Daniel Waters, James Cappe & David Arnott (1990) • Hudson Hawk – Steven E. de Souza, Daniel Waters, Bruce Willis and Robert Kraft (1991) • Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot – Blake Snyder, William Osborne and William Davies – (1992) • Indecent Proposal – Amy Holden Jones (1993) • The Flintstones – Jim Jennewein, Steven E. de Souza, Tom S. Parker and various others (1994) • Showgirls – Joe Eszterhas (1995) • Striptease – Andrew Bergman (1996) • The Postman – Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland (1997) • An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn – Joe Eszterhas (1998) • Wild Wild West – Jim Thomas, John Thomas, S. S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman (1999) • Battlefield Earth – Corey Mandell and J. David Shapiro (2000)
2001–present Freddy Got Fingered – Tom Green & Derek Harvie (2001) • Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones – George Lucas and Jonathan Hales (2002) • Gigli – Martin Brest (2003) • Catwoman – Theresa Rebeck, John Brancato, Michael Ferris and John Rogers (2004) • Dirty Love – Jenny McCarthy (2005) • Basic Instinct 2 – Leora Barish and Henry Bean (2006) • I Know Who Killed Me – Jeffrey Hammond (2007) • The Love Guru – Mike Myers & Graham Gordy (2008) • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (2009) • The Last Airbender – M. Night Shyamalan (2010) • Jack and Jill – Steve Koren and Adam Sandler, story by Ben Zook (2011) • That's My Boy - David Caspe (2012) • Movie 43 - Steve Baker, Ricky Blitt, Will Carlough, Tobias Carlson, Jacob Fleisher, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Claes Kjellstrom, Jack Kukoda, Bob Odenkirk, Bill O'Malley, Matthew Alec Portenoy, Greg Pritikin, Rocky Russo, Olle Sarri, Elizabeth Wright Shapiro, Jeremy Sosenko, Jonathan van Tulleken and Jonas Wittenmark (2013) • Saving Christmas - Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey (2014) • Fifty Shades of Grey - Kelly Marcel (2015) • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer (2016) • The Emoji Movie – Tony Leondis, Eric Siegel and Mike White (2017) • Fifty Shades Freed – Niall Leonard (2018) • Cats – Lee Hall and Tom Hooper (2019)
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