J.D. Shapiro

Jake David Shapiro born March 18 1969 is an American filmmaker and standup comedian Shapiro is best known as the original screenwriter of the film Robin Hood Men in Tights and for writing the screenplay adaptation of L Ron Hubbards novel Battlefield Earth Battlefield Earth won more Golden Raspberry Awards than any other film up to that point and Shapiro accepted the dubious award in person Shapiro was fired from the film due to creative disagreements during preproduction and wanted to be credited with a pseudonym and also said little or nothing of his script remained in the final film after extensive rewrites Shapiro later apologized for involvement in the widely panned film Description above from the Wikipedia article JD Shapiro licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia