Jim Thomas
Born James E. Thomas
Occupation Screenwriter Years active 1987–present
James E. Thomas is an American screenwriter based in California. With his brother John Thomas , he wrote and/or was substantially involved with the screenplays of several films - including Predator (1987), The Rescue (1988), Predator 2 (1990), Two-Fisted Tales (1992), Executive Decision (1996), Wild Wild West (1999), Mission to Mars (2000), Behind Enemy Lines (2001) and the short-lived TV series Hard Time on Planet Earth .
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Born in Needles, California and raised in Bakersfield , Jim worked as lifeguard, teacher, ditch digger and carpenter, attended law school and work as a grip and soundman in low-budget features. In 1983, he had the idea that would become Predator and asked his brother for help in developing a script.[1]
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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)