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Ehren Kruger
Highest Rated: 96% Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Lowest Rated: 7% Dream House (2011)
Birthday: Oct 5, 1972
Birthplace: Alexandria, Virginia, USA
A versatile screenwriter with a knack for fast-paced action, realistic dialogue and wry humor, Ehren Kruger got his start on the small screen before making his feature debut with 1999's "Arlington Road." A former script assistant at Fox TV and Sandollar Productions, Kruger received his first screen credit with the 1998 USA Network TV-movie "Killers in the House," a nail-biting hostage drama in which a family is held in their own home by ruthless bank robbers. Next his 1996 Nicholl Fellowship-winning script for "Arlington Road" was produced in feature form. Directed by Mark Pellington, the film was both an action-packed thriller and a psychodrama, a disturbing look at the smiling evil of domestic terrorism and one man's struggle with potential paranoia. "Arlington Road" starred Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack and opened with a portrait of mindless destruction that succeeds both as a momentary jolt and an image that haunts for the entire film. Kruger's script for the high-tech espionage drama "New World Disorder" never reached the big screen, but debuted on HBO. He lightened up a bit with his next feature foray, the last installment of the "Scream" trilogy. Faster paced, with more appropriate, less verbose dialogue and lots of surprises, "Scream 3" (2000) was a suitable sequel, capturing the former films' chills as well as tongue-in-cheek attitude, making fun not only of the horror genre as a whole, but the previous "Scream" entries specifically.
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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96% | 99% | Top Gun: Maverick | Screenwriter | $718.5M | 2022 |
| 46% | 48% | Dumbo |
Screenwriter, Producer |
$114.8M | 2019 |
| 59% | No Score Yet | Ophelia | Producer | $50.7K | 2018 |
| 42% | 51% | Ghost in the Shell | Screenwriter | $40.5M | 2017 |
| 8% | 23% | Rings | Executive Producer | $27.8M | 2017 |
| 18% | 50% | Transformers: Age of Extinction | Screenwriter | $245.4M | 2014 |
| 7% | 36% | Dream House | Producer | $21.3M | 2011 |
| 35% | 55% | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Screenwriter | $352.4M | 2011 |
| 60% | 57% | Scream 4 | Executive Producer | $38.2M | 2011 |
| 20% | 57% | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Screenwriter | $402.1M | 2009 |
| 11% | 52% | Blood and Chocolate |
Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
$3.5M | 2007 |
| 38% | 39% | The Brothers Grimm | Writer | $37.9M | 2005 |
| 37% | 58% | The Skeleton Key | Writer | $47.8M | 2005 |
| 21% | 33% | The Ring Two | Screenwriter | $75.9M | 2005 |
| 71% | 48% | The Ring | Writer | $128.6M | 2002 |
| 25% | 41% | Impostor | Writer | $6.1M | 2001 |
| 25% | 27% | Reindeer Games | Writer | $23.4M | 2000 |
| 41% | 38% | Scream 3 | Writer | $89.1M | 2000 |
| 63% | 74% | Arlington Road | Writer | $24.4M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | Killers in the House | Writer | - | 1998 |