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Jack Thorne

Highest Rated: 100% Help (2021)

Lowest Rated: 22% A Long Way Down (2014)

Birthday: Dec 6, 1978

Birthplace: Bristol, England, UK

Writer Jack Thorne made a career juggling media both classic and modern, working in radio and theater as well as television and cinema. By the age of 30, he had begun writing for "Skins" (E4 2007-2013), the first in a string of major British television series for which Thorne would play recurring author. He'd spend the bulk of the years to follow writing for British and American TV, plays for the stage and radio, and would inevitably come to scripting feature films. Jack Thorne was born on December 6, 1978, in Bristol, England. Thorne would pioneer a writing career at age 27, releasing his first stage play at the Bush Theatre: "When You Cure Me" (2005). Starting in his earliest years of professional writing, Thorne would jump from theater to short films-including the comedy "The Mascot" (2005) and the drama "A Supermarket Love Song" (2006)-to radio and television, making his small screen debut with an episode of the British dramedy "Shameless" (Channel 4 2004-2013). Thorne's biggest early break came in 2007, when he landed a recurring gig writing for the popular teen drama "Skins" (E4 2007-2013). Next, Thorne wrote his first full length feature film, "The Scouting Book for Boys" (2009), which earned play at the 2009 London Film Festival. Television would monopolize most of Thorne's time for the next few years, offering him a handful of episodes on each of the following series: "Cast Offs" (Channel 4 2009-), "This Is England '86" (Channel 4 2010), and the supernatural drama "The Fades" (BBC Three 2011), for which Thorne earned two BAFTA Awards. Ultimately, however, Thorne would find his way back to features, writing two films in a row: "A Long Way Down" (2014), an adaptation of Nick Hornby's seriocomic 2005 novel, and the political drama "War Book" (2014), for which he reunited with "The Scouting Book for Boys" director Tom Harper. The latter film premiered at the 2014 London Film Festival. In the same year, he created his own TV series, "Glue" (E4 2014-), a teen drama and mystery that he wrote and produced alongside Jamie Campbell. Additionally, Thorne was hired to handle the script for the DC Comics feature "Sandman."

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Highest rated movies

100% 92% Help
Watchlist
100% An Almost Christmas Story Watchlist 93% 79% Enola Holmes 2 Watchlist
90% 88% Joy
Watchlist
86% 88% Wonder Watchlist 82% 85% The Swimmers Watchlist
78% 62% War Book
Watchlist
71% 95% The Aeronauts Watchlist
66% 43% The Secret Garden
Watchlist
63% 42% Radioactive Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet TRON: Ares Screenwriter - 2025
90% 88% Joy Screenwriter - 2024
100% No Score Yet An Almost Christmas Story Screenwriter - 2024
82% 85% The Swimmers Screenwriter - 2022
93% 79% Enola Holmes 2 Screenwriter,
Executive Producer
- 2022
100% 92% Help Screenwriter,
Executive Producer
- 2021
66% 43% The Secret Garden Screenwriter - 2020
63% 42% Radioactive Screenwriter - 2019
27% 50% Dirt Music Screenwriter - 2019
71% 95% The Aeronauts Screenwriter,
Executive Producer
$30.0K 2019
86% 88% Wonder Screenwriter $132.4M 2017
22% 40% A Long Way Down Screenwriter $13.1K 2014
78% 62% War Book Screenwriter - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jonah Screenwriter - 2013
55% 61% The Scouting Book for Boys Screenwriter - 2009

TV

Credit
95% 75% Best Interests Writer 2023
84% 83% His Dark Materials Writer,
Executive Producer,
Writer
2019-2020 2022
88% 80% Am I Being Unreasonable? Executive Producer 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet CripTales Writer 2020
69% 77% The Eddy Writer 2020
93% 35% The Accident Executive Producer,
Writer
2019
100% 92% The Virtues Writer 2019
97% 90% National Treasure Writer 2016 2018
88% 53% The Last Panthers Screenwriter 2015
No Score Yet 100% This Is England '90 Writer 2015
No Score Yet 100% This Is England '88 Writer 2011
82% 90% The Fades Writer 2011
No Score Yet 67% Skins Writer 2007-2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shameless Writer 2007