Ehren Kruger

Ehren Kruger (born October 5, 1972) 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.

For his work on Top Gun: Maverick, Kruger was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Life and career Kruger was raised in Alexandria, Virginia, and attended the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, graduating in 1990. He graduated from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 1993 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

His produced screenplays include Arlington Road, Scream 3 and Reindeer Games. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay for The Ring.

He also did uncredited rewrites to Scream 4, when Kevin Williamson had to leave production.

Early on in his career after writing the screenplay Arlington Road, he received the Nicholl Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1996. Kruger wrote the script of the television series adaptation of Terry Gilliam's film The Brothers Grimm.

Filmography Year Title Writer Producer Notes 1998 Killers in the House TV movie 1999 Arlington Road New World Disorder Co-wrote with Jeffrey Smith2000 Scream 3 Reindeer Games 2001 Impostor Co-wrote with Caroline Case and David Twohy 2002 The Ring 2005 Rings Short filmCo-wrote with Jonathan Liebesman The Ring Two The Skeleton Key The Brothers Grimm 2007 Blood & Chocolate Co-wrote with Christopher B. Landon 2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Co-wrote with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman 2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon 2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction 2017 Ghost in the Shell Co-wrote with Jamie Moss and William Wheeler 2019 Dumbo 2022 Top Gun: Maverick Co-wrote with Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie 2025 F1 Also co-story writer with Joseph Kosinski

Uncredited rewrites Dracula 2000 (2000) Texas Rangers (2001) Mindhunters (2004) Scream 4 (2011)

Producer only Scream 4 (2011) (Executive producer) Dream House (2011) Rings (2017) (Executive producer) Ophelia (2018)

Actor Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective (2011) (Documentary film, himself)