Ken and Jim Wheat

Ken Wheat (born 1950) and Jim Wheat (born 1952) are an American screenwriting, producing, and directing duo.^[1] Mainly known for their horror films, the brothers co-wrote the slasher film The Silent Scream (1979), as well as A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) and The Fly II (1989). In 1989, they wrote, directed, and produced the anthology horror film After Midnight. They later devised the story and co-wrote the screenplay of the science fiction horror film Pitch Black (2000).

Filmography[edit]


Year	Title	Directors	Writers	Producers	Notes
1978	American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince	No	No	Executives	Documentary film
1979	Silent Scream	No	Yes	Yes
1980	The Return	No	Yes	No
1983	Lies	Yes	Yes	Yes
1985	Ewoks: The Battle for Endor	Yes	Yes	No	Television film
1988	A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master	No	Yes	No
1989	The Fly II	No	Yes	No
1989	After Midnight	Yes	Yes	Yes
1994	The Birds II: Land's End	No	Yes	No	Television films
1994	Trick of the Eye	No	Yes	No
1996	It Came from Outer Space II	No	Yes	No
	Rattled	No	Yes	No
	The Stepford Husbands	No	Yes	No
1999	Free Fall	No	Yes	No
2000	Pitch Black	No	Yes	No

Also credited as "Based on characters created by" in The Chronicles of Riddick franchise (second and third films, television special, animation short, motion comics, video games, books and comic books).