John Thomas (screenwriter)

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John Thomas
Born	John C. Thomas Needles, California
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1987 – present

John C. Thomas is an American screenwriter based in California. With his brother Jim Thomas, he wrote and/or was substantially involved with the screenplays of numerous films - including Predator (1987), The Rescue (1988), Predator 2 (1990), Executive Decision (1996), Wild Wild West (1999), Mission to Mars (2000) and Behind Enemy Lines (2001) - and the short-lived TV series Hard Time on Planet Earth.

Born in Needles, California and raised in Bakersfield, John worked as lifeguard, teacher, ditch digger and carpenter, as well as attempting to be a writer. His brother had the idea for the script that would become Predator, in 1983, and asked John for help.^[1]

References

^ Shapiro, Marc (December 1990). "Predator Season". Starlog (161).

External links

John Thomas at IMDb

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1980s	Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr – Can't Stop the Music (1980) Frank Yablans, Frank Perry, Tracy Hotchner, and Robert Getchell – Mommie Dearest (1981) Robin Moore and Laird Koenig – Inchon (1982) John Kershaw, Shawn Randall, and Ellen Shephard – The Lonely Lady (1983) John Derek – Bolero (1984) Sylvester Stallone, James Cameron, and Kevin Jarre – Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz – Howard the Duck (1986) Jonathan Reynolds and Bill Cosby – Leonard Part 6 (1987) Heywood Gould – Cocktail (1988) Eddie Murphy – Harlem Nights (1989)
1990s	Daniel Waters, James Cappe, and David Arnott – The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) Steven E. de Souza, Daniel Waters, Bruce Willis, and Robert Kraft – Hudson Hawk (1991) Blake Snyder, William Osborne, and William Davies – Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) Amy Holden Jones – Indecent Proposal (1993) Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, Steven E. de Souza, and various others – The Flintstones (1994) Joe Eszterhas – Showgirls (1995) Andrew Bergman – Striptease (1996) Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland – The Postman (1997) Joe Eszterhas – An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) Jim Thomas, John Thomas, S. S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price, and Peter S. Seaman – Wild Wild West (1999)
2000s	Corey Mandell and J. David Shapiro – Battlefield Earth (2000) Tom Green and Derek Harvie – Freddy Got Fingered (2001) George Lucas and Jonathan Hales – Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) Martin Brest – Gigli (2003) Theresa Rebeck, John Brancato, Michael Ferris, and John Rogers – Catwoman (2004) Jenny McCarthy – Dirty Love (2005) Leora Barish and Henry Bean – Basic Instinct 2 (2006) Jeffrey Hammond – I Know Who Killed Me (2007) Mike Myers and Graham Gordy – The Love Guru (2008) Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
2010s	M. Night Shyamalan – The Last Airbender (2010) Steve Koren, Adam Sandler, and Ben Zook – Jack and Jill (2011) David Caspe – That's My Boy (2012) 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 – Movie 43 (2013) Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey – Saving Christmas (2014) Kelly Marcel – Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) Tony Leondis, Eric Siegel, and Mike White – The Emoji Movie (2017) Niall Leonard – Fifty Shades Freed (2018) Lee Hall and Tom Hooper – Cats (2019)
2020s	Tomasz Klimala, Barbara Białowąs, Tomasz Mandes, and Blanka Lipińska – 365 Days (2020/21) Joe DiPietro and David Bryan – Diana: The Musical (2021) Andrew Dominik – Blonde (2022) Rhys Frake-Waterfield – Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)

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