...either John August himself or those writing about him often list the Depp/DS film as his sole credit when mentioning his name in an article:
New 'Aladdin' Teaser Reveals Will Smith's Genie"The live-action film is directed by British filmmaker Guy Ritchie (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and is written by John August (Dark Shadows)."Sure, August does still get a story credit - but despite the fact that he claims his script for DS is the best script he's ever written, the actual script they ultimately went with was written by Seth Grahame-Smith...
(And speaking of the Depp/DS film, when I just went to IMDb to make sure I had the spelling of Grahame-Smith's name right, I noticed that the popularity of the film is rising on IMDb. It's currently ranked 944th - and with tens of thousands of films on IMDb, that's also fascinating...)