Jim Uhls wrote the screenplay for "Fight Club," starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, directed by David Fincher; the NBC television film, “Semper Fi,” produced by Steven Spielberg, about young recruits in the Marine Corps and is a writer on JUMPER, the upcoming film by Doug Liman starring Hayden Christensen.

He has just started an adaption of the graphic novel REX MUNDI for Warner Brothers and Johnny Depp. Before that he completed a screenplay adaptation of the cult novel “FLICKER” for New Regency and Darren Aronofsky and a pilot, “Paranoid,” which he and Yalda will produce at FX; He has also turned in a production rewrite of "INTO THE MIRROR" to be directed by Alex Aja (THE HILLS HAVE EYES) both for New Regency. Other screenplays nearing production are "Gideon Force" for Imagine Entertainment and an independent film, “Sweet Talk.”

Jim is also a playwright, with "The Relative Importance of Jeri" produced in New York, and numerous plays produced in Los Angeles, including "Collections of a Long-Distance Garbageman."

He was born in Missouri, on the Mississippi River. After being fished out of the river, he adapted to the form of an upright primate and has passed for human ever since. He went to college first at Drake University, then UCLA. At various times, he has studied with David Suchet and the Royal Shakespeare Company, Estelle Parsons, playwright Robert Montgomery, and composer Bob Merrill. He was an original member of the Actors Gang when it was founded at UCLA as well as a member of the informal group of writers and directors called "Pad O' Guys. Jim founded the Writer's and Actor's Lab (WAL), a scene workshop for original material. He is also a member of a new, similar workshop, Safehouse.

He publishes a BLOG and has been featured in a series of interviews with established screenwriters.