---
name: "Darren Lemke"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/darren-lemke"
fi1m_id: "darren-lemke"
imdb_id: "nm0501359"
tmdb_id: 582919
wikidata_id: "Q47544098"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 57
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T11:45:30.510426+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."
---

# Darren Lemke

## Identity

Darren Lemke

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/darren-lemke
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** darren-lemke
- **IMDb ID:** nm0501359
- **TMDB ID:** 582919
- **Wikidata ID:** Q47544098
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Lemke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47544098, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0501359/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/582919

Writer. Born 1 January 1969 in Toms River.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1969, Toms River
- **Active:** 2010–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Mike Mitchell](https://film.one/person/mike-mitchell.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 57, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 60 (1), 2020s 54 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Lemke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47544098, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0501359/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/582919

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Shrek Forever After*](https://film.one/film/shrek-forever-after.md) (60)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Kung Fu Panda 4*](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda-4.md) (54)

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

## Biography

Darren Lemke is an American screenwriter. He has been active in the film industry since the late 1990s. He studied screenwriting at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

His first major screenwriting credit was for the 2010 film *Shrek Forever After*, which he co-wrote with Josh Klausner. He has since contributed to family-oriented features including *Turbo* (2013), *Goosebumps* (2015), *Jack the Giant Slayer* (2013), *Shazam!* (2019), *Gemini Man* (2019) and *Kung Fu Panda 4* (2024). He also directed and wrote the 2004 film *Lost*, and served as an executive producer on the television series *The Wheel of Time* (2021–2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Kung Fu Panda 4* (2024), Fi1m 54, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda-4.md)
- *Shrek Forever After* (2010), Fi1m 60, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/shrek-forever-after.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Kung Fu Panda 4* (2024), Writer — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda-4.md)
- *The Wheel of Time* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *Gemini Man* (2019), Story, Screenplay
- *Shazam!* (2019), Story
- *The Parts You Lose* (2019), Screenplay
- *Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween* (2018), Story
- *Goosebumps* (2015), Screenplay
- *Turbo* (2013), Screenplay
- *Jack the Giant Slayer* (2013), Story, Screenplay
- *Shrek Forever After* (2010), Writer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/shrek-forever-after.md)
- *Lost* (2004), as Archer's Victim · Director, Writer
- *I.F.*, Screenplay
- *Club 33*, Writer
- *Shout It Out Loud*, Screenplay

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