Bob Barlen


Robert George Barlen, best known as Bob Barlen, is a Canadian screenwriter and producer. He is best known for having co-written The Weinstein Company's animated film Escape from Planet Earth, and produced and co-written , both in collaboration with his business partner Cal Brunker, who served as the director for both films.

Career

Upon graduating from Ryerson University, Barlen attended the Directors' Lab at the Canadian Film Centre.
He co-wrote the screenplay for Escape from Planet Earth, which was released to theaters February 15, 2013.
Barlen produced and co-wrote the sequel ', starring Will Arnett, Maya Rudolph and Katherine Heigl, which was theatrically released by Open Road Films on August 11, 2017.
He co-wrote the screenplay for The Son of Bigfoot, a Belgian CGI-animated film, for nWave Pictures that is due to be released in August 2017, and for Arctic Dogs, a Canadian CGI-animated feature film, for AMBI Pictures that is due to be released in January 2018. His next screenplay work is Cranston Academy: Monster Zone, a Mexican-British-Canadian animated horror-comedy film starring Jamie Bell and Ruby Rose, which is produced by Ánima Estudios and Prime Focus World.
On 21 February 2020, following the announcement, Barlen confirmed via his Twitter that he's collaborating with Brunker once more as a co-writer, alongside with Billy Frolick, for ', a film based on the popular Nick Jr. animated series, PAW Patrol. It will be released in August 2021, produced by Nickelodeon Movies and Spin Master, and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Filmography