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Ehren Kruger

Born 1972 · American film screenwriter and producer

Ehren Kruger is an American film screenwriter and producer. He is best known for writing three of the five installments in the original Transformers film series: Revenge of the Fallen, Dark of the Moon, and Age of Extinction, in addition to the American version of The Ring and its sequel The Ring Two and the American adaptation of Ghost in the Shell.

Ehren Kruger, in order

  1. 1999 Arlington Road: wrote · directed by Mark Pellington · critics 67%, audiences 74% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Roku Channel
  2. 2000 Reindeer Games: wrote · directed by John Frankenheimer · critics 25%, audiences 28% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+
  3. 2000 Scream 3: wrote · directed by Wes Craven
  4. 2001 Impostor: wrote · directed by Gary Fleder · critics 26%, audiences 41% · streaming on Philo, Hoopla
  5. 2002 The Ring: wrote · directed by Gore Verbinski · critics 72%, audiences 48% · streaming on Netflix, Paramount+, Kanopy
  6. 2004 Mindhunters: wrote · directed by Renny Harlin · critics 26%, audiences 57% · streaming on Philo, Hoopla, Starz
  7. 2005 Rings (short film): wrote · directed by Jonathan Liebesman
  8. 2005 The Brothers Grimm: wrote · directed by Terry Gilliam
  9. 2005 The Ring Two: wrote · directed by Hideo Nakata
  10. 2005 The Skeleton Key: wrote · directed by Iain Softley
  11. 2007 Blood & Chocolate: wrote · directed by Katja von Garnier
  12. 2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: wrote · directed by Michael Bay · critics 18%, audiences 57% · streaming on Paramount+, Kanopy, Hoopla
  13. 2011 Dream House: produced · directed by Jim Sheridan · critics 7%, audiences 36%
  14. 2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon: wrote · directed by Michael Bay
  15. 2014 Invertigo: wrote · directed by D.J. Caruso
  16. 2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction: wrote · directed by Michael Bay · critics 18%, audiences 50% · streaming on Paramount+, Kanopy, Hoopla
  17. 2017 Ghost in the Shell: wrote · directed by Rupert Sanders
  18. 2018 Ophelia: produced · directed by Claire McCarthy
  19. 2019 Dumbo: wrote, produced · directed by Tim Burton
  20. 2022 Top Gun: Maverick: wrote · directed by Joseph Kosinski · critics 96%, audiences 99% · streaming on Netflix, Paramount+
  21. 2025 F1: wrote · directed by Joseph Kosinski · critics 82%, audiences 97% · streaming on Apple TV
  22. The Brothers Grimm (TV series): wrote
  23. Top Gun 3: wrote · directed by Joseph Kosinski