Age: 52
Birthplace: Alexandria, Virginia
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.
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. 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.
Year | Film | Credit | Director | Studio | Rotten Tomatoes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1998 | Killers in the House | Writer | Michael Schultz | Studios USA | - |
1999 | Arlington Road | Writer | Mark Pellington | Screen Gems PolyGram Pictures |
62% |
2000 | Scream 3 | Writer | Wes Craven | Dimension Films | 31% |
2000 | Reindeer Games | Writer | John Frankenheimer | 25% | |
2002 | Impostor | Screenplay | Gary Fleder | 22% | |
2002 | The Ring | Screenplay | Gore Verbinski | DreamWorks Pictures | 72% |
2005 | Rings | Writer | Jonathan Liebesman | ||
2005 | The Ring Two | Writer | Hideo Nakata | 20% | |
2005 | The Skeleton Key | Writer | Iain Softley | Universal Studios | 39% |
2005 | The Brothers Grimm | Writer Producer |
Terry Gilliam | Miramax Films | 37% |
2007 | Blood & Chocolate | Screenplay Executive Producer |
Katja von Garnier | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 11% |
2009 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Writer | Michael Bay | DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Pictures |
19% |
2011 | Dream House | Producer | Jim Sheridan | Universal Studios | 6% |
2011 | Scream 4 | Executive Producer, Uncredited Rewrites | Wes Craven | Dimension Films | 58% |
2011 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Writer | Michael Bay | Paramount Pictures | 36% |
2014 | Transformers: Age of Extinction | Writer | 18% |