Stuart Beattie
Australian screenwriter and film director

Stuart Beattie

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Australian screenwriter and film director
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Stuart Beattie (born 1972) is an Australian screenwriter and film director. His screenplay for Collateral (2004) earned him nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay and Saturn Award for Best Writing.
Beattie attended Knox Grammar School, in Sydney, New South Wales, where his mother, Sandra, was a languages teacher, and later Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.

Filmography

All credits are as screenwriter except where noted.

  • Joey (1997)
  • The Protector (1998)
  • Kick (1999)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
  • Collateral (2004)
  • Derailed (2005)
  • The Messengers (2007)
  • 30 Days of Night (2007)
  • Punisher: War Zone (re-write) (2008)
  • Australia (2008)
  • G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
  • Tomorrow, When the War Began (writer and director) (2010)
  • I, Frankenstein (writer and director) (2014)