John Gatins was born on April 16,1968 and is an American screenwriter, director, and actor.
11 Facts About John Gatins
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John Gatins was born in Manhattan, New York, where his father worked as a New York City police officer.
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Later, his family relocated to the Poughkeepsie area, where John Gatins went on to attend Arlington High School and Vassar College.
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John Gatins graduated in 1990 with a degree in drama.
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At the suggestion of Steven Spielberg, John Gatins was brought in to work on Real Steel, a science fiction film based on a 1956 Richard Matheson short story.
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John Gatins considered the draft of the screenplay which he received when he began working on the project to be very dark, and he adapted it to focus more on the family aspects, such as the film's father-son relationship, about which he was accustomed to writing in his previous works.
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Since 1999, John Gatins had been working on Flight, an original screenplay which, by 2009, was 149 pages.
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John Gatins received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Writing at the 85th Academy Awards for his screenplay.
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DreamWorks tapped John Gatins to write a sequel to Real Steel before the film was released based on positive test screenings of the movie.
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John Gatins rewrote Kong: Skull Island for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros.
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John Gatins rewrote the 2017 Power Rangers reboot film, incorporating aspects from previous drafts by Max Landis, Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Michele Mulroney, and Kieran Mulroney.