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Jonathan Gems is a British playwright and screenwriter. Gems rewrote segments of dialogue for Batman. He contributed to a few scenes to appease the needs of Jack Nicholson and Jon Peters. Gems' contribution to the script didn't meet the minimum requirement to get screen credit from writer's guilds, much like Charles McKeown.

Tim Burton got a long well with Gems and commissioned him to write several screenplays for his future projects. Gems is best known for his collaboration with Burton on Mars Attacks!, for which he wrote the screenplay and the novelization. Gems has written a number of unproduced scripts for Burton, including a sequel for Beetlejuice titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" set in Burbank, California, The Hawkline Monster, a cowboy/monster movie that was to star Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson and Go Baby Go, a movie in the style of Russ Meyer.

Other works of Jonathan Gems include White Mischief and The Treat (also director).

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