Biography
Etan Cohen is an Israeli-American screenwriter and film director, best known for writing the scripts to Tropic Thunder, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Men in Black 3.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Brothers
2024
Story
A reformed criminal's attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother on a road trip for the score of a li...

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
2022
Additional Writing
Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one li...

The Bad Guys
2022
Screenplay, Executive Producer
When the Bad Guys, a crew of criminal animals, are finally caught after years of heists and being the world’s most-wanted villains, Mr. Wolf brokers a...

Holmes & Watson
2018
Writer, Director
Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a mysterious murder at Buckingham Palace. It seems like an open-and-shut case...

Get Hard
2015
Director, Screenplay
When obscenely rich hedge-fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his...

Men in Black 3
2012
Screenplay
Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes ...

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
2008
Writer
Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble a wrecked airplane. The precariously repaired cra...

Tropic Thunder
2008
Screenplay
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the fru...

My Wife Is Retarded
2007
Director, Writer
A man learns the secret behind his perfect marriage.

Idiocracy
2006
Screenplay
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and s...

Recess: All Growed Down
2003
Additional Dialogue
T.J. and The Recess Gang are kidnapped by the Third Street School's kindergartners, who are in turn being bullied by a new kid in their class.
Waverly
N/A
as Friend
A patron dressed up like a person and a creature instead of itself
Blood Brothers
N/A
Writer
After a century of friendship, smoking opium with Genghis Khan and having orgies in Michelangelo’s studio, two inseparable vampire buddies are on the ...