Ehren Kruger

Ehren Kruger
Born	(1972-10-05) October 5, 1972 (age 46) Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Screenwriter, film producer
Years active	1998–present

Ehren Kruger (born October 5, 1972)^[1] is an American screenwriter and film producer. He is best known for writing three of the five installments in the Transformers film series: Revenge of the Fallen, Dark of the Moon, and Age of Extinction.^[2]

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  1 Life and career
  


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  2 Filmography
  


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  3 References
  


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  4 External links
  

Life and career

Kruger was raised in Alexandria, Virginia, and attended the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, graduating in 1990.^[3] He graduated from New York University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.^[4]

His produced screenplays include Arlington Road, Scream 3 and Reindeer Games.^[5] He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay for The Ring.^[6]

He also did uncredited rewrites to Scream 4, when Kevin Williamson had to leave production.^[7][8]

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 in 1996.^[9] Kruger wrote the script of the television series adaption of Terry Gilliam's film The Brothers Grimm.^[10]

Filmography

Year	Film	Credit	Director	Studio	Rotten Tomatoes
1998	Killers in the House	Writer	Michael Schultz	Studios USA	-[11]
1999	Arlington Road	Writer	Mark Pellington	Screen Gems PolyGram Pictures	62%[12]
	New World Disorder	Writer	Richard Spence	Carousel Picture Company	17%[13]
2000	Scream 3	Writer	Wes Craven	Dimension Films	36%[14]
	Dracula 2000	Uncredited; re-writes	Patrick Lussier		17%
	Reindeer Games	Writer	John Frankenheimer		25%[15]
2002	Impostor	Screenplay	Gary Fleder		22%
	The Ring	Screenplay	Gore Verbinski	DreamWorks Pictures	72%[16]
2005	Rings	Co-writer	Jonathan Liebesman
	The Ring Two	Writer	Hideo Nakata		20%[17]
	The Skeleton Key	Writer	Iain Softley	Universal Studios	39%[18]
	The Brothers Grimm	Writer Producer	Terry Gilliam	Miramax Films	37%[19]
2007	Blood & Chocolate	Screenplay Executive producer	Katja von Garnier	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	11%[20]
2009	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Co-Writer	Michael Bay	DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Pictures	19%[21]
2011	Dream House	Producer	Jim Sheridan	Universal Studios	6%[22]
	Scream 4	Executive producer, Uncredited Rewrites	Wes Craven	Dimension Films	58%[23]
	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Writer	Michael Bay	Paramount Pictures	36%[24]
2014	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Writer			18%[25]
2017	Rings	Executive producer	F. Javier Gutiérrez		7%[26]
	Ghost in the Shell	Co-Writer	Rupert Sanders		43%[27]
2018	Ophelia	Producer	Claire McCarthy	IFC Films	59%[28]
2019	Dumbo	Writer Producer	Tim Burton	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	48%[29]

References

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2. 
   ^ Ehren Kruger Returns to Write 'Transformers 4'; Shia LaBeouf Definitely Out
   


3. 
   ^ Grove, Lloyd (1999-07-09). "The Reliable Source". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
   


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   ^ "Features". Retrieved 2018-07-28.
   


5. 
   ^ "'Scream 3' Writer Working on Fourth Film, Actors Pissed?". Bloody Disgusting.
   


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   ^ "Horror Writers Association - Past Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". horror.org. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
   


7. 
   ^ "'Transformers' Writer Boards Disney Mountain Adventure Movie (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
   


8. 
   ^ Sharkey, Betsy (2011-04-15). "Movie review: 'Scream 4'". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
   


9. 
   ^ "Ehren Kruger Arlington Road" (PDF).
   


10. 
    ^ The Brothers Grimm Headed to the Small Screen
    


11. 
    ^ "Killers in the House (1998)". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc.
    


12. 
    ^ Arlington Road at Rotten Tomatoes.
    


13. 
    ^ New World Disorder - Rotten Tomatoes
    


14. 
    ^ "Scream 3 (Cream of the Crop)". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc.
    


15. 
    ^ "Reindeer Games (Deception) (2000)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
    


16. 
    ^ "The Ring". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-07-29.
    


17. 
    ^ "The Ring Two". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2012-11-06.
    


18. 
    ^ "The Skeleton Key". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
    


19. 
    ^ "The Brothers Grimm". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
    


20. 
    ^ Blood and Chocolate. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 02 July 2013
    


21. 
    ^ "Rotten Tomatoes T-Meter Rating of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
    


22. 
    ^ "Dream House (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
    


23. 
    ^ "Scream 4 (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
    


24. 
    ^ "Transformers: Dark of the Moon". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
    


25. 
    ^ "Transformers: Age of Extinction". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-08-04.
    


26. 
    ^ Rings (2017), Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved 2019-03-26
    


27. 
    ^ Ghost in the Shell (2017), Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved 2019-03-26
    


28. 
    ^ Ophelia (2018), Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved 2019-03-26
    


29. 
    ^ Dumbo (2019), Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved 2019-03-26
    

External links

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  Ehren Kruger on IMDb

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Feature films

Killers in the House (1998) Arlington Road (1999) New World Disorder (1999) Scream 3 (2000) Reindeer Games (2000) Imposter (2002) 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) Ophelia (2018) Dumbo (2019)

v t e 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)

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