Creator / Jonathan Nolan

"Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future."

— Memento Mori, a short story written by Jonathan Nolan which served as the basis for Memento

Jonathan "Jonah" Nolan (born 6 June 1976) is a British-American author, scriptwriter, television writer, director, and producer, and the brother of Academy Award winning director Christopher Nolan. He often writes films with his brother since Jonathan wrote The Prestige alongside him in 2006.

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Works Nolan is creatively involved with:

• Memento (2000 - writer of short story used as basis for Memento, Memento Mori)
• The Prestige (2006 - co-writer)
• The Dark Knight (2008 - co-writer)
• Person of Interest (2011 to 2016 - creator, writer, director, executive producer)
• The Dark Knight Rises (2012 - co-writer)
• Interstellar (2014 - co-writer)
• Westworld (co-created with his wife Lisa Joy, based on the film of the same name by Michael Crichton) (2016 to 2022 - creator, writer, director, executive producer)
• The Peripheral (2022 - executive producer)
• Fallout TV series (co-created with Lisa Joy, based on the video games of the same name) (2024 - creator, writer, director, executive producer)