---
name: "Stuart Beattie"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stuart-beattie"
fi1m_id: "stuart-beattie"
imdb_id: "nm0064181"
tmdb_id: 1707
wikidata_id: "Q2719725"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-03T08:18:08.386449+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."
---

# Stuart Beattie

## Identity

Stuart Beattie

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/stuart-beattie
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** stuart-beattie
- **IMDb ID:** nm0064181
- **TMDB ID:** 1707
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2719725
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Beattie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2719725, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0064181/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1707

Writer. Born 1 January 1972 in Melbourne.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1972, Melbourne
- **Active:** 2003–2017
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as writer, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 68 (5), 2010s 45 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 64 to 61 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 3 under 60
- **Genres:** Adventure 5, Action 4, Fantasy 4, Drama 2, Crime 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 15 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $3,911m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Beattie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2719725, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0064181/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1707

## Streaming the US now

- **Paramount+:** [*Collateral*](https://film.one/film/collateral.md) (85)

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

## Biography

Stuart Beattie is an Australian screenwriter, film director and producer. He was born on 4 August 1971 in Melbourne and raised in Sydney, where he attended Knox Grammar School before studying at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.

Beattie wrote the screenplay for *Collateral* (2004), which earned nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, the Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Saturn Award for Best Writing. His other credits include the story for *Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl* (2003) and screenplays for *30 Days of Night* (2007), *Australia* (2008) and *G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra* (2009). He has also directed films such as *Tomorrow, When the War Began* (2010) and written episodes for the series *Obi-Wan Kenobi* (2022).

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

## On Fi1m (6)

- *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales* (2017), Fi1m 45, Characters — [page](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-men-tell-no-tales.md)
- *Australia* (2008), Fi1m 58, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/australia.md)
- *Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End* (2007), Fi1m 55, Characters — [page](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-at-worlds-end.md)
- *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest* (2006), Fi1m 63, Characters — [page](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest.md)
- *Collateral* (2004), Fi1m 85, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/collateral.md)
- *Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl* (2003), Fi1m 81, Screenstory — [page](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-the-curse-of-the-black-pearl.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

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

- *Faraway Downs* (2023), series, Screenplay
- *Obi-Wan Kenobi* (2022), series, Writer, Teleplay, Story
- *Interceptor* (2022), Writer, Producer
- *Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan* (2019), Screenplay, Producer
- *Captain Jokes Parrot's Disaster of the Caribbean* (2017), Characters
- *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales* (2017), Characters — Fi1m 45, [page](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-men-tell-no-tales.md)
- *The Legend of Tarzan* (2016), Screenplay
- *Deadline Gallipoli* (2015), series, Writer
- *I, Frankenstein* (2014), Screenplay, Director, Screenstory
- *Tomorrow, When the War Began* (2010), Director, Writer
- *G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra* (2009), Screenplay, Story
- *Australia* (2008), Screenplay — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/australia.md)
- *30 Days of Night* (2007), Screenplay
- *Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End* (2007), Characters — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-at-worlds-end.md)
- *The Killer* (2006), Original Story
- *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest* (2006), Characters — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest.md)
- *Derailed* (2005), Screenplay
- *Collateral* (2004), Writer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/collateral.md)
- *Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl* (2003), Screenstory — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-the-curse-of-the-black-pearl.md)
- *Kick* (1999), Screenplay
- *Joey* (1997), Screenplay
- *The Protector* (1997), Writer
- *Water Under the Bridge* (1980), series, Second Assistant Director
- *Truce*, Writer
- *Daughter of Smoke & Bone*, Screenplay
- *First Warrior*, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Stuart Beattie at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con.](https://film.one/media/person/98470/gallery-63e0632275c4.jpg) Stuart Beattie at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con. — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Stuart_Beattie_Comic_Con_2013.jpg/1280px-Stuart_Beattie_Comic_Con_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Stuart Beattie](https://film.one/media/person/98470/gallery-13bc10bc3432.jpg) Stuart Beattie — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Stuart_Beattie_Comic_Con_2013_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Stuart_Beattie_Comic_Con_2013_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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