Gatins made his directorial feature debut by filming his screenplay for Dreamer (2005), and also wrote or co-wrote Coach Carter (2005), Real Steel (2011), Kong: Skull Island and Power Rangers (2017).
[2] Later, his family relocated to the Poughkeepsie area, where Gatins went on to attend Arlington High School[3] and Vassar College.
[2] At the suggestion of Steven Spielberg, Gatins was brought in to work on Real Steel, a science fiction film based on a 1956 Richard Matheson short story.
[4] Robert Zemeckis picked up the script; and the resulting film, starring Denzel Washington, was released to critical acclaim in 2012.
[6] DreamWorks tapped Gatins to write a sequel to Real Steel before the film was released based on positive test screenings of the movie.