Biography
Jonathan Blair Hensleigh (born February 13, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director, working primarily in the action-adventure genre, best known for writing films such as Jumanji, Die Hard with a Vengeance, and Armageddon, as well as making his own directorial debut with the 2004 comic book action film The Punisher. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jonathan Hensleigh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Ice Road: Vengeance
2025
Director, Writer
Big rig ice road driver Mike McCann travels to Nepal to scatter his late brother’s ashes on Mt. Everest. While on a packed tour bus traversing the dea...
The Ice Road
2021
Screenplay, Director
After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, an ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save th...
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
2017
Original Film Writer
Four teenagers in detention discover an old video game console with a game they’ve never heard of. When they decide to play, they are immediately suck...
Kill the Irishman
2011
Director, Screenplay
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian...
The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh
2007
as Himself
After ditching his law career, Jonathan Hensleigh (Die Hard: with a Vengeance, Armageddon) went on to become a widely respected and successful action-...
Next
2007
Screenplay
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underw...
Welcome to the Jungle
2007
Director, Writer
Two young couples head into the New Guinea wilderness in an effort to find Michael Rockefeller, the heir to the Rockefeller fortune who disappeared in...
The Punisher
2004
Director, Writer
When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length t...
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance
2000
Screenplay
The elder Jones's lecture tour takes parents and son to India, where Indy explores the meaning of faith in oneself with Theosophist philosopher Jiddu ...
Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000
Executive Producer
Upon learning that he has to come out of retirement to steal 50 cars in one night to save his brother Kip's life, former car thief Randall "Memphis" R...
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception
1999
Screenplay
Indy's work with the Belgian Army takes him to the front lines of Verdun in 1916, where officers' callous stupidity sends thousands of men to their de...
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil
1999
Writer
A top secret mission for French Intelligence brings Indy to Istanbul during the first world war. Exploring the city's dark and dangerous streets, he i...
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell
1999
Screenplay
As a young soldier in the Belgian Army, Indy learns firsthand the savagery of warfare while participating in the Battle of the Somme. Almost succumbin...
Armageddon
1998
Screenplay, Story, Executive Producer
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate ...
Con Air
1997
Executive Producer
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" takin...
The Saint
1997
Screenplay, Story
Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on t...
The Rock
1996
Screenplay
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into Sa...
Jumanji
1995
Screenplay
When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's b...
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995
Writer
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with c...
A Far Off Place
1993
Screenplay
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous Afri...