---
name: "Brent Maddock"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brent-maddock"
fi1m_id: "brent-maddock"
imdb_id: "nm0534681"
tmdb_id: 26475
wikidata_id: "Q1031927"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 60
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T20:06:10.886923+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Brent Maddock

## Identity

Brent Maddock

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brent-maddock
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brent-maddock
- **IMDb ID:** nm0534681
- **TMDB ID:** 26475
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1031927
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Maddock, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1031927, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0534681/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26475

Writer. Born 1 January 1960 in United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1960, United States
- **Active:** 1987–1999
- **Frequently works with:** [S.S. Wilson](https://film.one/person/s-s-wilson.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 60, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 63 (1), 1990s 58 (2)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Science Fiction 3, Action 1, Adventure 1, Family 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $336m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Maddock, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1031927, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0534681/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26475

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Tremors*](https://film.one/film/tremors.md) (82)
- **Hulu:** [*Wild Wild West*](https://film.one/film/wild-wild-west.md) (34)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Brent Maddock is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He has frequently collaborated with writing partner S. S. Wilson.

Their credits include the screenplays for *Short Circuit* (1986), *batteries not included* (1987) and *Wild Wild West* (1999). Maddock wrote the story and screenplay for, and produced, *Tremors* (1990). He is a founding partner of Stampede Entertainment.

Maddock directed *Tremors 3: Back to Perfection* (2001) and co-created the 2003 television series *Tremors*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, stampede-entertainment.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Wild Wild West* (1999), Fi1m 34, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/wild-wild-west.md)
- *Tremors* (1990), Fi1m 82, Screenplay, Story, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/tremors.md)
- **batteries not included* (1987), Fi1m 63, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/batteries-not-included.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Harami* (2021), Producer
- *Tremors: Shrieker Island* (2020), Characters
- *Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell* (2018), Characters
- *Tremors* (2018), series, Characters
- *Tremors 4: The Legend Begins* (2004), Characters, Executive Producer
- *Tremors* (2003), series, Writer, Story, Teleplay, Characters, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Tremors 3: Back to Perfection* (2001), Director, Story
- *Wild Wild West* (1999), Screenplay — Fi1m 34, [page](https://film.one/film/wild-wild-west.md)
- *Tremors 2: Aftershocks* (1996), Characters, Executive Producer, Writer
- *Heart and Souls* (1993), Screenplay, Screenstory
- *Ghost Dad* (1990), Screenplay
- *Tremors* (1990), Producer, Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/tremors.md)
- *Short Circuit 2* (1988), Screenplay
- **batteries not included* (1987), Screenplay — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/batteries-not-included.md)
- *Short Circuit* (1986), Writer
- *It's me, Claudia!* (1982), Writer, Director
- *Deer in the Works* (1980), Adaptation
- *Dictionary: The Adventure of Words* (1968), Director, Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay 1999: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay (won), for *Wild Wild West*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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