“13 Prolific Screenwriters Whose Faces You’d Never Recognize (Or Why Screenwriters Don’t Appear on Camera) “

Scott Myers

16 Nov 2010 • 3 min read

Who are these guys?

These are screenwriters. In order they are:

Christopher McQuarrie (Credit: The Usual Suspects, The Way of the Gun, Valkyrie, The Tourist, Jack and the Giant Killer and Wolverine II.)

David Goyer (Credits: Dark City, Blade, Blade II, Blade Trinity, Batman Begins, Jumper, The Unborn and The Dark Knight, among others).

Jon Lucas & Scott Moore (Credits: Rebound, Full of It, Four Christmases, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, The Hangover and The Change-Up.)

Sean Anders & John Morris (Credits: Sex Drive, She’s Out of My League, Hot Tub Time Machine, and Mr. Popper’s Penguins. )

Derek Haas & Michael Brandt (Credits: Invincible, 2 Fast 2 Furious, 3:10 to Yuma, Wanted and The Courier.)

Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick (Credits: Zombieland, Zombieland II and Deadpool)

Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci (Credits: “Alias,” The Island, The Legend of Zorro, Mission Impossible III, Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Star Trek and Cowboys and Aliens.

Allan Loeb (Credits: Things We Lost in the Fire, 21, Wall Street: The Money Never Sleeps, The Dilemma, Change-Up, Just Go With It, So Undercover and Protection.)

This list and photos per Pajiba:

Here are 13 currently prolific screenwriters whose faces you’ve probably never seen, but whose words with which you’re possibly quite familiar. Now, you can put a face to the name.

Okay, great. Love to see screenwriters get any sort of PR. However do you notice two things decidedly missing from this array of photos?

No women. No writers of color.

So to even things out a bit, here are more screenwriter faces:

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Lorene Scafaria (credits: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, plus 6 projects in development)

Antwone Fisher (credits: Antwone Fisher, ATL)

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Nora Ephron (credits: Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, Julie & Julia)

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Suzan-Lori Parks (credits: Girl 6, Their Eyes Were Watching God, In the Blood, Topdog/Underdog)

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Guillermo Arriaga (credits: Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel)

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Diablo Cody (credits: Juno, Jennifer’s Body, “The United States of Tara”)

Gregory Allen Howard (credits: Remembering the Titans, Ali)

Robin Swicord (credits: Little Women, Matilda, Practical Magic, Memoirs of a Geisha)

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Michael C. Martin (credits: Brooklyn’s Finest, “Sleeper Cell”)

Screenwriters: All backgrounds, shapes, sizes, colors, genders. Beautiful people all.

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