Ken and Jim Wheat


Ken Wheat and Jim Wheat are an American screenwriting, producing, and directing duo. Mainly known for their horror films, the brothers co-wrote the slasher film The Silent Scream, as well as A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master and The Fly II. They wrote and directed the 1985 Star Wars television film Ewoks: The Battle for Endor and the 1989 anthology horror film After Midnight. They later devised the story and co-wrote the screenplay of the science fiction horror film Pitch Black.

Filmography

Film
YearTitleDirectorsWritersProducers
1979Silent Scream
1980The Return
1983Lies
1988A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
1989The Fly II
1989After Midnight
2000Pitch Black

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TV movies
YearTitleDirectorsWriters
1985Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1994The Birds II: Land's End
1994Trick of the Eye
1996It Came from Outer Space II
1996Rattled
1996The Stepford Husbands
1999Free Fall