John Brancato

Writing

John Brancato

Born 1958-11-08 · USA

John Brancato (born November 8, 1958) is an American screenwriter, whose works include The Game, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Salvation, and Surrogates with his writing partner Michael Ferris. The pair met while at college, where both were editors of The Harvard Lampoon.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines poster
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It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

2003

Terminator Salvation poster
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All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.

Terminator Salvation

2009

The Game poster
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In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

The Game

1997

Surrogates poster
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Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

Surrogates

2009

The Net poster
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Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night, she hooks up to the internet and chats to others 'surfing the net'. While de-bugging a new high-tech game for a cyber friend, she comes across a top secret program and becomes the target of a mysterious organization, who will stop at nothing to erase her identity and her existence in order to protect the project.

The Net

1995

Trigger Warning poster
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A Special Forces commando uncovers a dangerous conspiracy when she returns to her hometown looking for answers regarding her beloved father's death.

Trigger Warning

2024

Primeval poster
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A news team is sent to Burundi to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Their difficult task turns potentially deadly when a warlord targets them for death.

Primeval

2007

The Hunter's Prayer poster
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An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family.

The Hunter's Prayer

2017

Femme Fatale poster
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A worried artist tries to locate his wife who suddenly abandoned him only to discover that she led a secret life - or two. He proceeds to investigate her past and stirs up a hornet's nest.

Femme Fatale

1991

Mindwarp poster
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Revolting mutants hunt human outcasts and underground fighters (Bruce Campbell, Marta Alicia) in a future world of mind control.

Mindwarp

1992

The Unborn poster
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Joy turns to horror when a pregnant mother discovers the nightmarish truth behind her doctor's unexpected success in helping her conceive.

The Unborn

1991

Into the Sun poster
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Paul Watkins is an American pilot stationed in the Middle East, who is taken away from his normal duties of protecting the skies to show an actor everything he needs to know about being a pilot in the Air Force. The actor, Tom Slade, is about to start filming an Air Force movie and wants to "get the feeling" for the part. When Watkins takes Slade for a ride in an F-16 fighter, some other American jets are attacked and the pair comes to the rescue. However, it does not go according to the plan.

Into the Sun

1992

Watchers II poster
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A genetically re-engineered dog develops a psychic link with a monster created in a lab experiment which goes awry.

Watchers II

1990

The Net 2.0 poster
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The life of a young computer systems analyst is thrown into turmoil after arriving in Istanbul to start a new job. She soon finds her passport missing, her credit cards useless, her bank account empty and her identity stolen. As the story progresses we find people and events may not be what they seem.

The Net 2.0

2006

Interceptor poster
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A U.S. Air Force officer tries to stop a murderous group of terrorists who are trying to steal two top secret F-117A Stealth Fighters from the cargo hold of a gigantic C-5 Galaxy Transport flying at 30,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean.

Interceptor

1992

Flight of Black Angel poster
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A US Air Force pilot steals a nuclear bomb and sets off on what he believes is a divine mission against an American city.

Flight of Black Angel

1991

Severed Ties poster
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A regeneration experiment on a severed arm goes awry, turning the limb into a murderous, reptilian creature.

Severed Ties

1992