Karey Kirkpatrick

Karey Kirkpatrick is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He is well known for directing the 2006 DreamWorks animated film Over The Hedge and the 2009 comedy ''Imagine That. He also wrote the screenplay for several films such as Chicken Run, Laws of Attraction, Charlotte's Web, The Spiderwick Chronicles and The Smurfs Film series.''

For Disney, he wrote the screenplay for The Rescuers Down Under' and James and the Giant Peach', and ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2005 Touchstone Pictures sci-fi The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Additionally, he wrote a few episodes of Timon & Pumbaa.''