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Jonathan Gems

出生 : , London, United Kingdom

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jonathan Gems (born 1952, London) is a British playwright and screenwriter mostly known for his work on Mars Attacks!, directed by Tim Burton. He also wrote the film's novelization. The son of the playwright Pam Gems, Jonathan Gems wrote a number of plays for theatres on the London fringe before gradually turning to screenwriting. As well as Mars Attacks!, Gems did uncredited rewrite work on Batman. Gems has written a number of unproduced scripts for Burton, including a Beetlejuice sequel titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, an updating of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" set in Burbank, California, The Hawkline Monster, a cowboy/monster movie that was to star Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson and Go Baby Go, a beach movie in the style of Russ Meyer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jonathan Gems, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

参加作品

Who Killed British Cinema?

Himself

A feature length documentary about the real state of the British film industry in relation to UK structures past, present and currently for the future. This film exposes the shocking truths about the UK Governments' will to grow an indigenous British film industry, the legacy and testament of the now closed UK Film Council (UKFC), the current British Film Institute and the new Creative England.

The Treat

Writer

The lives of four strange prostitutes will change forever when they go to the Mayor's birthday party.

The Treat

Director

The lives of four strange prostitutes will change forever when they go to the Mayor's birthday party.

マーズ・アタック!

Screenplay

謎の円盤型飛行物体が地球に飛来し、事件を巻き起こす。テレビジャックにより人類にコンタクトを取ってきた「ミドリ人」と名乗る宇宙人は、巨大な脳に大きな目、骸骨のような口元の奇怪な緑色の生物だった。見栄えばかりを気にするアメリカ大統領デイルは、政権内が穏健派と過激派にわかれる中、異星人を大々的なセレモニーで歓迎することにする。大統領の周囲は、ヒステリーな妻マーシャ、シニカルな大統領の娘タフィにお調子者の広報官ジェリー、楽観的なケスラー教授、ベトナム以来の鬼将軍デッカーという面々だった。

White Mischief

Screenplay

A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.