James E. Thomas is an American screenwriter based in California. With his brother John Thomas, he wrote and/or was substantially involved with the screenplays of several films - including Predator (1987) and Predator 2 (1990),  Executive Decision(1996), Wild Wild West (1999), Behind Enemy Lines (2001) and the TV series Hard Time on Planet Earth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim Thomas (screenwriter), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.