| Jonathan Hales | |
| Birth Date: | 10 May 1937 |
| Birth Place: | England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | playwright and screenwriter |
| Years Active: | 1970–present |
Jonathan Hales (born 10 May 1937) is a British playwright and screenwriter. He is noted for his work with George Lucas, including The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television series and .
Hales has worked extensively in the theatre (both as actor and stage director), film and television.[1] He began his screenwriting career in 1970, with the British television series Manhunt. Hales has written for the American series Dallas, as well as many iterations — series and DVD releases — of George Lucas's The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones.
In 1977 he directed the stage play Mecca by E. A. Whitehead at the Open Space Theatre, London.[2]
Hales wrote the 1980 Agatha Christie film The Mirror Crack'd. He is credited with the story for the 2002 prequel to The Mummy, The Scorpion King, and is co-author (with George Lucas) of the screenplay for 2002's Star Wars film .
Writing the middle film in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Lucas and Hales continued to refine their script as production began. The production draft was completed less than a week before commencement of principal photography. Hales worked with Lucas as costumes were designed and sets were constructed. “At that stage, Attack of the Clones felt like a ‘virtual film’ because we got the script only three days before we started shooting,” recalls producer Rick McCallum. “We had to build these sets to a script that didn’t exist.”[3]
| 1980 | The Mirror Crack'd | Guy Hamilton | |
| 1981 | Loophole | John Quested | Also in role ''Driver'' |
| 1983 | High Road to China | Brian G. Hutton | Uncredited |
| 2002 | The Scorpion King | Chuck Russell | Story only |
| Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones | George Lucas | Story written by George LucasScreenplay co-written with George Lucas |
| 1970 | Manhunt | Open House | Bill Bain | |
| A Different Kind of War | Rex Firkin | |||
| The Enemy You Know | Bill Bain | |||
| One Way Home | ||||
| Intent to Steal | Robert Tronson | |||
| 1971 | The Guardians | The Nature of the Beast | Mike Newell | Also in role ''First Man''|-|The Killing Trade |Derek Bailey||-|1972|Villains|Smudger|Jim Goddard||-| rowspan="2" |1973|Centre Play|Places Where They Sing|Bill Hays|Co-written with Simon Raven|-|Armchair Theatre|Brussels Sprouts-Boy Scouts|Jim Goddard||-|1979|Kids|Brenda|John Frankau||-|1981|Armchair Thriller|The Chelsea Murders |Derek Bennett||-|1983| rowspan="3" |Partners in Crime|The House of Lurking Death|Christopher Hodson||-| rowspan="2" |1984|The Sunningdale Mystery|Tony Wharmby||-|The Case of the Missing Lady |Paul Annett||-| rowspan="2" |1985| rowspan="2" |Dempsey and Makepeace|Given to Acts of Violence |William Brayne||-|Hors de Combat|Christian Marnham||-|1988|Dallas|The Call of the Wild|Michael Preece||-|1991|Van der Valk |Doctor Hoffmann's Children |Anthony Simmons||-|1992| rowspan="6" |The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles|Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal|Jim O'Brien & Carl Schultz|Story written by George Lucas|-| rowspan="4" |1993|Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920|Syd Macartney||-|Northern Italy, June 1918|Bille August||-|Ireland, April 1916|Gillies MacKinnon||-|Paris, May 1919 |David Hare||-| rowspan="2" |1994|Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies|Michael Schultz||-| rowspan="2" |Grand Nord|Bari| rowspan="2" |Arnaud Sélignac||-|1995|Kazan||-|1996|The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles|Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father| rowspan="3" |Michael Schultz ||-|1999| rowspan="2" |The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones|Tales of Innocence|New segment Morocco, November 1917|-|2001|Winds of Change|Additional scenes Princeton, 1919|}External links
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