Biography
John Requa (born January 1, 1967) is an American screenwriter (with Glenn Ficarra) of Cats & Dogs, Bad Santa and the 2005 remake Bad News Bears. Requa and Ficarra directed Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor in their screenplay I Love You, Phillip Morris. For their writing on this film, Requa and Ficarra received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Requa grew up in Burien, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, graduating from Burien's Highline High School in 19...
Complete Filmography
DC League of Super-Pets
2022
Executive Producer
When Superman and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto the Super-Dog must convince a rag-tag shelter pack - Ace the hound, PB the potb...
Jungle Cruise
2021
Screenplay, Screenstory
Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for a...
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019
Creative Consultant
It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking every...
Smallfoot
2018
Producer, Story
A bright young yeti finds something he thought didn't exist—a human. News of this “smallfoot” throws the simple yeti community into an uproar over wha...
The Lego Batman Movie
2017
Creative Consultant
A cooler-than-ever Bruce Wayne must deal with the usual suspects as they plan to rule Gotham City, while discovering that he has accidentally adopted ...
Bad Santa 2
2016
Characters
Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Ev...
Storks
2016
Executive Producer
Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016
Director
In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her co...
Focus
2015
Director, Writer
Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a ...
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011
Director
Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfe...
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
2010
Characters
The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy with her own sinister plans for c...
I Love You Phillip Morris
2010
Director, Writer
Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force...
Bad News Bears
2005
Screenplay
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arra...
Bad Santa
2003
Writer
You'd better watch out - Santa Claus Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Wille's favorite holiday tr...
Cats & Dogs
2001
Screenplay
When a professor develops a vaccine that eliminates human allergies to dogs, he unwittingly upsets the fragile balance of power between cats and dogs ...
Misadventure
N/A
Director, Executive Producer
In early development. In the vein of Crazy Stupid Love. Plot TBA.
King of the Jungle
N/A
Director
After making a fortune with his antivirus software, its creator moves to the Belize jungle and sets up a compound.
16 States
N/A
Screenplay, Producer
A pandemic, this time with zombies, with a story of a mother trying to reach her family at the center of it. The project has been described as having ...
Guys and Dolls
N/A
Screenplay
A remake of the classic musical.