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Jonathan Hales is a British playwright and screenwriter born on the 10th of May 1937. He is known for co-writing the screenplay for Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones with George Lucas and for his extensive writing on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television series.
Jonathan Hales co-wrote the screenplay for Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones alongside George Lucas, who holds the story credit. The production draft was completed less than a week before principal photography began, with Hales working on the script as sets were being constructed.
Before Star Wars, Hales wrote the 1980 Agatha Christie film The Mirror Crack'd, multiple episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles throughout the 1990s, an episode of Dallas in 1988, and numerous British television series beginning with Manhunt in 1970.
Producer Rick McCallum recalled that the production received the script only three days before shooting began, describing the film as feeling like a 'virtual film' at that stage. He noted that sets had to be built around a script that, in his words, 'didn't exist.'
Jonathan Hales wrote the screenplay for The Mirror Crack'd, a 1980 Agatha Christie film directed by Guy Hamilton. He also wrote television episodes based on Christie's Partners in Crime stories.
Jonathan Hales is credited with the story for The Scorpion King, the 2002 prequel to The Mummy franchise directed by Chuck Russell. His credit is for the story only, not the screenplay.