Gerard Johnstone

Gerard Johnstone is a New Zealand screenwriter and director. He is known for the comedy sitcom series The Jaquie Brown Diaries and the horror films Housebound and M3GAN.

Works

7.3

M3GAN 2.0

After the underlying tech for M3GAN is stolen and misused by a powerful defense contractor to create a military-grade weapon known as Amelia, M3GAN's creator Gemma realizes that the only option is to resurrect M3GAN and give her a few upgrades, making her faster, stronger, and more lethal.

Release Date2025-06-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd 911 Operator

Vote Count1079

7.0

M3GAN

A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

Release Date2022-12-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4614

The New Legends of Monkey
7.1

The New Legends of Monkey

Follow a teenage girl and a trio of fallen gods on a perilous journey as they attempt to bring an end to a demonic reign of chaos and restore balance to their world. Inspired by the 16th Century Chinese fable “Journey to the West.”

Release Date2018-01-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count197

6.6

Housebound

When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.

Release Date2014-09-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count890

Monster High

A live-action film based on the toy line revolving around a high school attended by the teenage children of famous monsters, including Draculaura (daughter of Dracula), Frankie Stein (daughter of Frankenstein's monster), Clawdeen Wolf (daughter of the Werewolf) and Cleo de Nile (daughter of the Mummy). Story details TBA.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Jaquie Brown Diaries
6.0

The Jaquie Brown Diaries

The Jaquie Brown Diaries is a satirical New Zealand sitcom in which real-life television personality Jaquie Brown plays a fictionalised, over-ambitious, status-obsessed version of herself. The series was created by Gerard Johnstone, Jaquie Brown and Hayley Cunningham and premiered 25 July 2008 on TV3. The US cable television channel Logo began broadcasting the series' episodes to date 12 June 2010.

Release Date2008-07-25

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Special Crimes Unit

Inept cops go on the trail of a music-related murder.

Release Date2003-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter