Robert Rodat (born c. 1960) is an American film and television writer and television producer . He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for writing Steven Spielberg 's war epic Saving Private Ryan . ^[1]

Career [ edit ]

Rodat wrote Saving Private Ryan (1998), ^[3] The Comrades of Summer (1992), Tall Tale (1995), ^[4] Fly Away Home with Vince McKewin (1996), ^[5] and The Patriot (2000). ^[3] He worked on the revision of the script for the 2008 film 10,000 BC ^[6] and helped with the story of 2013 film Thor: The Dark World . ^[3] Rodat also contributed to a screenplay for a film adaptation of Warcraft , ^[7] work that was ultimately rebooted with the exit of the film's then-attached director, Sam Raimi .

In 2009, Rodat created the TNT science-fiction series Falling Skies , produced by Steven Spielberg . The series did not premiere until summer 2011. Its fifth and final season was broadcast in the summer of 2015. The show is about human survivors of a semi-post apocalyptic world due to an alien invasion. ^[8]

Filmography [ edit ]

• The Comrades of Summer (1992, television movie)
• Tall Tale (1995)
• Fly Away Home (1996)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• The Patriot (2000)
• Thor: The Dark World (2013)
• The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)
• Kursk (UK: Kursk: The Last Mission , US: The Command ) (2018)

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Robert Rodat at IMDb

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