Ehren Kruger

Ehren Kruger
Born	October 5, 1972 Alexandria, Virginia
Occupation	Screenwriter, film producer

Ehren Kruger (born October 5, 1972) is an American screenwriter and film producer. He is best known for writing three of the four 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 college at New York University. He attended the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, graduating in 1990.

His produced screenplays include Arlington Road, Scream 3 and Reindeer Games.^[2] He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay for The Ring.

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

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. Kruger wrote the script of the television series adaption of Terry Gilliam's film The Brothers Grimm.^[3]

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Credit	Director	Studio	Rotten Tomatoes
1998	Killers in the House	Writer	Michael Schultz	Studios USA	-[4]
1999	Arlington Road	Writer	Mark Pellington	Screen Gems PolyGram Pictures	62%[5]
2000	Scream 3	Writer	Wes Craven	Dimension Films	31%[6]
2000	Reindeer Games	Writer	John Frankenheimer		25%[7]
2002	Impostor	Screenplay	Gary Fleder		22%
2002	The Ring	Screenplay	Gore Verbinski	DreamWorks Pictures	72%[8]
2005	Rings	Writer	Jonathan Liebesman
2005	The Ring Two	Writer	Hideo Nakata		20%[9]
2005	The Skeleton Key	Writer	Iain Softley	Universal Studios	39%[10]
2005	The Brothers Grimm	Writer Producer	Terry Gilliam	Miramax Films	37%[11]
2007	Blood & Chocolate	Screenplay Executive Producer	Katja von Garnier	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	11%[12]
2009	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Writer	Michael Bay	DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Pictures	19%[13]
2011	Dream House	Producer	Jim Sheridan	Universal Studios	6%[14]
2011	Scream 4	Executive Producer	Wes Craven	Dimension Films	58%[15]
2011	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Writer	Michael Bay	Paramount Pictures	36%[16]
2014	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Writer			18%[17]

References

1. Ehren Kruger Returns to Write TRANSFORMERS 4; Shia LaBeouf Definitely Out
2. "'Scream 3' Writer Working on Fourth Film, Actors Pissed?". Bloody Disgusting.
3. The Brothers Grimm Headed to the Small Screen
4. "Killers in the House (1998)". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc.
5. Arlington Road - Rotten Tomatoes
6. "Scream 3 (Cream of the Crop)". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc.
7. "Reindeer Games (Deception) (2000)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
8. "The Ring". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-07-29.
9. "The Ring Two". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2012-11-06.
10. "The Skeleton Key – Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures – Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
11. "The Brothers Grimm". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
12. Blood and Chocolate. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 02 July 2013
13. "Rotten Tomatoes T-Meter Rating of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". Rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
14. "Dream House (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
15. "Scream 4 (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
16. "Rotten Tomatoes T-Meter Rating of Transformers: Dark of the Moon". Rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
17. "Transformers: Age of Extinction". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-08-04.

External links

• Ehren Kruger at the Internet Movie Database