Robert Rodat

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]

Robert Rodat
Born	1959 or 1960 (age 64–65)[1]
Education	Colgate University (BA) Harvard Business School (MBA) University of Southern California (MFA)[2]
Occupation(s)	Writer, producer
Years active	1992–present

Career

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

• The Comrades of Summer (1992, television movie)
• Tall Tale (1995)
• Fly Away Home (1996)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• The Patriot (2000)
• 10,000 BC (2008)
• Falling Skies (2011, television series)
• Thor: The Dark World (2013)
• The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)
• Kursk (2018)

References

1. Dretzka, Gary (July 2, 2000). "The Patriot Writer Always Combat Ready". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
2. "'The Patriot' Writer Always Combat Ready". Chicago Tribune. July 2, 2000.
3. Hipes, Patrick (January 9, 2015). "Pulitzer-Hearst Newspaper War Drama Series In Works From Robert Rodat & Gail Berman". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
4. Eller, Claudia (March 25, 1993). "Caravan pix has a 'Tall Tale' to tell". Variety. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
5. Schwarzbaum, Lisa (September 20, 1996). "Fly Away Home". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
6. "Belle, Strait Flash Back to '10,000 B.C.'". The Baltimore Sun. February 27, 2006. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
7. Goldberg, Matt (October 12, 2009). "SAVING PRIVATE RYAN Screenwriter Robert Rodat Will Tell the Tale of Sam Raimi's WORLD OF WARCRAFT". Collider. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
8. ROCO (January 17, 2011). "Falling Skies: Getting Inside The Minds Of The Aliens". Seriable. Retrieved August 17, 2012.

External links

• Robert Rodat at IMDb