John Requa and Glenn Ficarra directed Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
John Requa is an American screenwriter ( with Glenn Ficarra ) of Cats & Dogs , Bad Santa and the 2005 remake Bad News Bears . Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a 2016 American biographical war comedy-drama film directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa , and written by Robert Carlock , based on the memoir The Taliban Shuffle : Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker .