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.
[2] For his work on Top Gun: Maverick, Kruger was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Kruger was raised in Alexandria, Virginia, and attended the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, graduating in 1990.
[7][8] 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.
[9] Kruger wrote the script of the television series adaptation of Terry Gilliam's film The Brothers Grimm.