John Gatins

John Gatins (born April 16, 1968) is an American screenwriter, director, and actor. For writing the drama film ''Flight'' (2012), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

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). As an actor, he has collaborated three times with Eddie Murphy, on ''Norbit'' (2007), ''Meet Dave'' (2008) and ''A Thousand Words'' (2012). Provided by Wikipedia