Darren Lemke

Darren Lemke (born ) is an American screenwriter who has been active in the film industry since the late 1990s. With his work on the films Shrek Forever After, Turbo (2013), Goosebumps (2015), Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018), Shazam! (2019), and Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024), The Hollywood Reporter called Lemke "a known player in the family feature space".

Background Lemke was born in . Raised in Carlstadt, New Jersey, he went to Paramus Catholic High School in Paramus, New Jersey. After high school, he attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, New York to study screenwriting. In 1997, he sold two pitches to Touchstone Pictures for Tony Scott to direct; one of the pitches became Gemini Man, which was released in 2019. In 2004, Lemke wrote and directed the thriller film Lost.

Lemke's first major screenwriting credit was for the 2010 film Shrek Forever After, which he wrote with Josh Klausner.

In 2024, Disney hired Lemke to write a script for a detective film set in Disneyland's private dining club Club 33.

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