---
name: "Brent Simons"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brent-simons"
fi1m_id: "brent-simons"
imdb_id: "nm2523794"
tmdb_id: 119497
wikidata_id: "Q124718930"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 65
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T13:21:31.038932+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 Simons

## Identity

Brent Simons

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brent-simons
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brent-simons
- **IMDb ID:** nm2523794
- **TMDB ID:** 119497
- **Wikidata ID:** Q124718930
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124718930, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2523794/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119497

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 2010–2014
- **Average Fi1m score:** 65, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124718930, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2523794/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119497

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Megamind*](https://film.one/film/megamind.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Brent Simons is a screenwriter. He co-wrote the screenplay for the animated feature *Megamind* (2010) with Alan Schoolcraft, and contributed the story for *Penguins of Madagascar* (2014).

Simons and Schoolcraft met while studying at Emerson College, where Simons graduated in 1997. They collaborated on the script that became *Megamind*, which received an Annie Award nomination for writing in a feature production.

Simons has remained involved with the *Megamind* franchise, serving as writer, developer for television and executive producer on *Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate* (2024) and *Megamind Rules!* (2024).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, today.emerson.edu.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Penguins of Madagascar* (2014), Fi1m 58, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/penguins-of-madagascar.md)
- *Megamind* (2010), Fi1m 72, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/megamind.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate* (2024), Executive Producer, Writer
- *Megamind Rules!* (2024), series, Executive Producer, Original Film Writer, Writer, Creator
- *Penguins of Madagascar* (2014), Story — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/penguins-of-madagascar.md)
- *Megamind: The Button of Doom* (2011), Writer
- *Megamind* (2010), Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/megamind.md)

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