---
name: "Michael J. Wilson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-j-wilson"
fi1m_id: "michael-j-wilson"
imdb_id: "nm5022110"
tmdb_id: 5715
wikidata_id: "Q30072204"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "13 January 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 56
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T06:28:18.661781+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."
---

# Michael J. Wilson

## Identity

Michael J. Wilson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-j-wilson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-j-wilson
- **IMDb ID:** nm5022110
- **TMDB ID:** 5715
- **Wikidata ID:** Q30072204
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Wilson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30072204, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5022110/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5715

Writer. Born 13 January 1966 in New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 13 January 1966, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1994–2016
- **Frequently works with:** [Denis Leary](https://film.one/person/denis-leary.md), [Jack Black](https://film.one/person/jack-black.md), [John Leguizamo](https://film.one/person/john-leguizamo.md), [Lori Forte](https://film.one/person/lori-forte.md), [Michael Berg](https://film.one/person/michael-berg.md), [Ray Romano](https://film.one/person/ray-romano.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 56, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Wilson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30072204, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5022110/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5715

## Coming up

- *Ice Age: Boiling Point* (2027-02-03), Writer

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Ice Age*](https://film.one/film/ice-age.md) (73)
- **Netflix:** [*Shark Tale*](https://film.one/film/shark-tale.md) (40)

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

## Biography

Michael Jay Wilson (born 13 January 1966) is an American screenwriter. He created the Ice Age movie franchise for 20th Century Fox and wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay for the first film, *Ice Age* (2002).

Wilson began his career in television, co-creating and executive producing the CBS series *Sydney* (1990). He contributed uncredited script revisions to the films *The Flintstones* (1994) and *Little Giants* (1994).

After *Ice Age*, he co-wrote the screenplay for the animated film *Shark Tale* (2004) and the story and screenplay for the live-action comedy *The Tuxedo* (2002). He later wrote the screenplay for *Ice Age: Collision Course* (2016) and contributed to other projects in the franchise.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Shark Tale* (2004), Fi1m 40, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/shark-tale.md)
- *Ice Age* (2002), Fi1m 73, Story, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Ice Age: Boiling Point* (2027), Writer
- *Scrat: Spaced Out* (2016), Writer
- *Ice Age: Collision Course* (2016), Screenplay
- *Gladiators of Rome* (2012), Screenplay
- *A Monster in Paris* (2011), Writer
- *Shark Tale* (2004), Screenplay — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/shark-tale.md)
- *The Tuxedo* (2002), Screenplay, Story
- *Ice Age* (2002), Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age.md)
- *Little Giants* (1994), Writer
- *The Flintstones* (1994), Writer

## Gallery

- ![Michael J. Wilson](https://film.one/media/person/3664288/gallery-064b87282c92.jpg) Michael J. Wilson — Image via TMDB
- ![Michael J. Wilson](https://film.one/media/person/3664288/gallery-78eb9244e61c.jpg) Michael J. Wilson — Image via TMDB

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