Biography
Erik Jendresen (born December 22, 1959) is an American author, playwright, screenwriter, and producer of plays, television, and film. Previous projects include the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks; Killing Lincoln, co-produced with Tony and Ridley Scott for the National Geographic Channel; a series based on the Francis Ford Coppola film, The Conversation (with Christopher McQuarrie); The Pony Express (with Robert Duvall); an eight-hour adaptat...
Complete Filmography
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
Writer
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe —...
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023
Writer
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it...
Ithaca
2015
Producer, Screenplay
In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger an...
Killing Lincoln
2013
Executive Producer, Screenplay
April 14, 1865. One gunshot. One assassin hell-bent on killing a tyrant, as he charged the 16th President of the United States. And in one moment, our...
The Big Bang
2011
Screenplay
A private detective is hired to find a missing stripper but the job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead. From the mean streets o...
OTIS
2008
Writer, Idea, Story
After being captured and tortured by the psychopath Otis, teen cheerleader Riley Lawson escapes and informs her parents, who quickly sidestep sluggish...
Sublime
2007
Author
Admitted to Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure, George Grieves discovers that his condition is much more serious and complicated than origin...
Crazy As Hell
2002
Screenplay
A famous psychiatrist (Ty Adams) takes on the job of trying to cure patients at the Sedah State Hospital, run by it's folksy doctor (Sam Delazo). All ...
Deadlocked
2000
Teleplay
A young man is accused of rape and murder and placed on trial. His father doesn't believe that he is guilty, so in act of desperation he grabs the bai...
Iron Curtain
N/A
Writer
Broadsword
N/A
Writer
A Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) mission in World War II goes badly and leaves a Royal Marine Captain stranded in France as the sole survivor. ...