Written By: Robert Mark Kamen
Take a second to digest this one: the man who first emphasized the crane kick as a finishing move and not a balancing act in The Karate Kid series obviously took this martial arts stuff to heart. And in the process, built himself one heck of a career.
His work on both Leon: The Professional and The Fifth Element brought Kamen together with writer/director Luc Besson, and the rest is history. The pair of Besson and Kamen have collectively given the world Kiss of the Dragon, The Transporter 1, 2 and 3, Colombiana, and finally, Taken.
That's right: the writer credited with Liam Neeson's "I have a particular set of skills" speech was the same one that twenty-four years earlier gave the world "wax on, wax off."
Out of our entire group, that alone makes Kamen one of the only writers still consistently writing movies practically guaranteed to develop cult followings.