Language English Name Jonathan Gems | Parents Keith Gems, Pam Gems | |
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Movies Mars Attacks!, White Mischief, The Treat Books Mars Attacks!: A Novel, The tax exile Nominations Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Saturn Award for Best Writing Similar People Tim Burton, Woody Gelman, Norman Saunders, Bob Powell, Wally Wood | ||
SPUTNIK 214: George Galloway Interviews Caroline Frost, Vinod Mahindru & Jonathan Gems
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.
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- SPUTNIK 214 George Galloway Interviews Caroline Frost Vinod Mahindru Jonathan Gems
- 81 Jonathan Gems Mars Attacks Part 1 Who Killed British Cinema DVD Extra
- Plays
- References
The son of the playwright Pam Gems, 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.