Ken Nolan

Ken Nolan is an American screenwriter and novelist best known for adapting the 2001 biographical war film Black Hawk Down

Life and career Nolan was born in Detroit and raised in Buffalo, New York and Portland, Oregon. He applied twice to the UCLA Film School but was turned down both times. He initially wrote a 60-page treatment and writing a total of eight drafts before Scott was attached to the project by producer Jerry Bruckheimer. ) who contributed to the final shooting script, though he was the only one to receive on-screen credit.

Nolan's next major project was the TNT miniseries The Company, for which he received a Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Long Form – Adapted. In early 2015, he published his first novel, The Spawn.

He replaced Ehren Kruger as the writer of the Transformers film series, penning the latest entry Transformers: The Last Knight and the as-yet untitled spin-off film. Nolan wrote Only the Brave, a 2017 drama film which, like Black Hawk Down, is a work of historical fiction based on true events.

Works Film Black Hawk Down (2001) Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) Only the Brave (2017) Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (additional literary material) (2023) The Amateur (2025)

Television The Company (2007)

Print The Spawn (2015)