Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Above the Line

Writer

Jason Carter Eaton

Bio

JASON CARTER EATON (Story) began his film career in 1996 as director of development for Scott Rudin. He left to pursue writing, and published the political humor book Chelsea Clinton’s Freshman Notebook in 1997 for Hyperion. As penance, he decided to write children’s books. His picture book The Day My Runny Nose Ran Away was published by Dutton in 2003, and was followed by the 2008 release of his children’s novel, The Facttracker, from HarperCollins. Eaton’s television and film career began with internet shows for the Sci-Fi Channel and Showtime. He was hired to write an animated feature film treatment “Imaginary Friend” for Blue Sky Studios /Twentieth Century Fox Animation in 2003, and then was commissioned to write an animated feature script based on his own original pitch, “Spartacus Lobster” in 2004. In 2006, just prior to the birth of his own first born, Eaton was brought on to develop story concepts for ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS. With his writing partner Ian Lendler, Eaton sold the live-action feature script “The Snitts” to Cartoon Network in 2006. Eaton and Lendler are currently adapting the novel The Facttracker into a live action feature film for MGM, with 21 Laps Entertainment (“Night at the Museum”) producing and David Silverman (“The Simpsons Movie”) directing.