Jonathan Gems (born 1952, in London) is a British playwright and screenwriter mostly known for his work on Mars Attacks!
His well known work includes a screenplay for an adaptation of George Orwell's novel 1984 and Mars Attacks Memoirs, a book of interviews about working with Tim Burton behind the scenes of Mars Attacks!.
[4] As well as Mars Attacks!, Gems did uncredited rewrite work on Batman (1989).
Gems has written unproduced scripts for Burton, including a Beetlejuice (1988) sequel titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian; an updating of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" set in Burbank, California; The Hawkline Monster, a cowboy/monster movie that was to star Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson; and Go Baby Go, a beach movie in the style of films by Russ Meyer.
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