Jared Stern

 ( 21st-century American Male Writers ) 

Jared Stern is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He collaborated with John Whittington on The Lego Batman Movie (2017), The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), and DC League of Super-Pets (2022), the latter of which he also directed.

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Career Stern began his career by writing the screenplay for Mr. Popper's Penguins in 2011. Mr. Popper's Penguins: Film Review In 2012, he wrote for the comedy film The Watch. The following year, he wrote the comedy film The Internship. The Lego Movie Hires The Internship Writer Jared Stern for Sequel In 2014, Stern was hired to write (2019), but eventually moved on to writing the spinoffs The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie (both 2017). In the same year, he wrote a script based on the Disney theme park attraction It's a Small World. In 2015, he wrote and created the television series Dr. Ken. In 2017, he produced the live action film It Happened in L.A.

After writing screenplays, Stern directed his feature film debut, Happy Anniversary, a 2018 Netflix film. He also served as an executive producer on Storks (2016) and Smallfoot (2018). Super Pets Movie Jared Stern In 2019, he created the animated series Green Eggs and Ham, based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. In 2020, he signed on to produce the Warner Animation Group film Toto, before he was replaced by Derek Frey in 2021. He gained notability from directing the DC Comics film DC League of Super-Pets. He teamed up with Robert Zemeckis to write the HBO Max streaming series Tooned Out. In 2024, Stern was set to produce the animated adaptation of The Cat in the Hat (2026).

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Filmography

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Feature films

2011	Mr. Popper's Penguins
2012	The Watch
2013	The Internship
2017	The Lego Batman Movie
2017	The Lego Ninjago Movie
2018	Happy Anniversary
2022	DC League of Super-Pets

Producer only

• Storks (2016, executive)
• It Happened in L.A. (2017)
• Smallfoot (2018, executive)
• The Cat in the Hat (2026)

Creative consultant

• The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
• The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)
• (2019)

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Television

2015–17	Dr. Ken
2019–2022	Green Eggs and Ham

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Accolades For his work on Green Eggs and Ham, he was nominated at the 47th Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Writing for an Animated Program".

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