Biography
Jonathan Gems is a British playwright and screenwriter. Born in 1952 in London, he is the son of playwright Pam Gems. He began his career writing plays for London fringe theatres in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including The Tax Exile (1979) and Naked Robots (1980).
Gems later moved into screenwriting. His credits include the screenplay for White Mischief (1987), co-written with Michael Radford, and the screenplay for Mars Attacks! (1996), directed by Tim Burton. He also wrote the novelisation of the latter film. Gems contributed uncredited rewrite work on Batman (1989).
