Jake Wade Wall is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

 known for writing the screenplay

Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...

 for the 2006 remake, When a Stranger Calls

When a Stranger Calls (2006 film)

When a Stranger Calls is a 2006 American horror film and a remake of the 1979 horror film of the same name based on the urban legend "The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs"...

, and the 2007 remake, The Hitcher

The Hitcher (2007 film)

The Hitcher is a 2007 horror film starring Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, and Zachary Knighton. It is a remake of the 1986 film of the same name starring Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and C. Thomas Howell. The Hitcher was directed by Dave Meyers and produced by Michael Bay’s production company...

.

Early life and education

Wall grew up in the small town of Sealy, Texas

Sealy, Texas

Sealy is a city in Austin County, Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The population was 5,248 at the 2000 census. Sealy is located 50 miles west of the downtown Houston area.-Geography:...

, close to Katy

Katy, Texas

Katy is a city located in Harris, Fort Bend and Waller Counties in the U.S. state of Texas, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area...

 and Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

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, the youngest of five children. He attended Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 but, after a visit to New York City

New York City

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, transferred to New York University

New York University

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; he graduated with a degree in dramatic writing and a minor in philosophy.

Filmography as a screenwriter

• Clock Tower
  Clock Tower (series)
  Clock Tower is a stealth-based survival horror adventure video game series, created by Human Entertainment and continued by Sunsoft. The series plays like a horror film and unlike some of the other survival horror games, the Clock Tower series does not focus on shooting creatures or using violence,...
  
  (2009) (pre-production)
• Amusement
  Amusement (film)
  Amusement is an American 2009 horror film directed by John Simpson and starring Katheryn Winnick, Laura Breckenridge and Jessica Lucas. The film went direct-to-video in January 2009...
  
  (2008)
• The Hitcher
  The Hitcher (2007 film)
  The Hitcher is a 2007 horror film starring Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, and Zachary Knighton. It is a remake of the 1986 film of the same name starring Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and C. Thomas Howell. The Hitcher was directed by Dave Meyers and produced by Michael Bay’s production company...
  
  (2007)
• When a Stranger Calls
  When a Stranger Calls (2006 film)
  When a Stranger Calls is a 2006 American horror film and a remake of the 1979 horror film of the same name based on the urban legend "The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs"...
  
  (2006)

Both Clock Tower and The Hitcher were written with the help of others.

Filmography as an actor

• Spy TV (TV series) as Various (four episodes 2001 - 2002)
• To Protect and Serve (2001) as Filmmaker
• The Other Sister
  The Other Sister
  The Other Sister is a 1999 romantic comedy film starring Juliette Lewis, Giovanni Ribisi, Diane Keaton, and Tom Skerritt. Garry Marshall directed the film...
  
  (1999) as Registration Man (Tech School)

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