Michael Arndt

Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplays for the films Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010), and the upcoming The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his work on Little Miss Sunshine and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Toy Story 3.

On November 9, 2012, Disney Studios confirmed that it and Lucasfilm had selected Arndt to write the screenplay for Star Wars Episode VII in early 2013. Arndt, who has already written a fifty-page pre-script for the new film, is also expected to help write the entire upcoming Star Wars sequel trilogy.