From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Brancato and Michael Ferris are a pair of American screenwriters, whose works include The Game, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Salvation and Surrogates. They met while at college, where both were editors of The Harvard Lampoon. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Brancato and Michael Ferris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia