Jake David Shapiro was best know for being the screenwriter of a film directed by who?
J. David Shapiro Jake David Shapiro, also known as J. D. Shapiro (born March 18, 1969), is an American filmmaker and stand-up comedian. Shapiro is best known as the original screenwriter of the film "" and for writing the screenplay adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard's novel "Battlefield Earth".
Catch-22 (film) Catch-22 is a 1970 American black comedy war film adapted from the novel of the same name by Joseph Heller. In creating a black comedy revolving around the "lunatic characters" of Heller's satirical anti-war novel set at a fictional World War II Mediterranean base, director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Buck Henry (also in the cast) worked on the film script for two years, converting Heller's complex novel to the medium of film.