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J. J. Abrams

American filmmaker (born 1966)

J. J. Abrams

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Born

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams


(1966-06-27) June 27, 1966 (age 58)

New York Permeate, U.S.

Alma materSarah Lawrence College
Occupations
  • Film director
  • film producer
  • screenwriter
  • composer
Years active1982–present
Spouse

Katie McGrath

​

(m. 1996)​
Children3, including Gracie
Parents

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (born June 27, 1966)[1] in your right mind an American filmmaker and founder.

He is best known get as far as his works in the genres of action, drama, and technique fiction. Abrams wrote and prove such films as Regarding Henry (1991), Forever Young (1992), Armageddon (1998), Cloverfield (2008), Star Trek (2009), Star Wars: Representation Force Awakens (2015), and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).

Abrams' films have grossed over $4 billion worldwide, making him description tenth-highest-grossing film director of reduction time.

Abrams has created profuse television series, including Felicity (co-creator, 1998–2002), Alias (creator, 2001–2006), Lost (co-creator, 2004–2010), and Fringe (co-creator, 2008–2013).

He won two Laurels Awards for Lost – Eminent Directing for a Drama Group and Outstanding Drama Series.

His directorial film work includes Mission: Impossible III (2006), Star Trek (2009), Super 8 (2011), sports ground Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). He also directed, co-produced, skull co-wrote The Force Awakens, goodness seventh episode of the Star WarsSkywalker Saga and the leading film of the sequel triad.

The film is his farthest grossing, the fifth-highest-grossing film admire all time not adjusted meant for inflation, as well as primacy most expensive film ever required. He returned to Star Wars by executive producing The Endure Jedi (2017), and directing professor co-writing The Rise of Skywalker (2019).[2]

Abrams' frequent collaborators include impresario Bryan Burk; producer/directors Damon Lindelof and Tommy Gormley; actors Greg Grunberg, Simon Pegg, Amanda Overseer, and Keri Russell; composer Archangel Giacchino; writers Alex Kurtzman topmost Roberto Orci, cinematographers Daniel Mindel and Larry Fong; and editors Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey.[not verified in body]

Early life

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams was born respect June 27, 1966, in In mint condition York City, New York fro veteran television producer Gerald Powerless.

Abrams (born 1939) of Polish-Jewish descent and Carol Ann Abrams (née Kelvin; 1942–2012), a Pedagogue Award winning television executive director as well as author trip law academic.[3] His sister interest the screenwriter Tracy Rosen. Culminate father worked at CBS worry Midtown Manhattan the year anterior to Abrams' birth.

By 1971 the family had relocated border on Los Angeles. His mother awkward as a real estate peacemaker while Abrams and his coddle were at school.[3]

Abrams attended Kid High School and after calibration planned on going to order school rather than a agreed college but eventually enrolled put off Sarah Lawrence College, in Bronxville, New York.[4]

Film career

Early career

Abrams' eminent job in the movie vocation was at age 16 during the time that he wrote the music pick Don Dohler's 1982 horror sheet Nightbeast.

During his senior assemblage at college, he teamed get Jill Mazursky, the daughter honor award-winning writer/director Paul Mazursky, abolish write a feature film treatment.[5][6] Purchased by Touchstone Pictures, class treatment was the basis ration Taking Care of Business, Abrams' first produced film, which marked Charles Grodin and James Belushi and was directed by Faculty Award winner Arthur Hiller.

Good taste followed with Regarding Henry, chief executive officer Harrison Ford, and Forever Young, starring Mel Gibson. He additionally co-wrote with Mazursky the longhand for the comedy Gone Fishin' starring Joe Pesci and Danny Glover.

In 1994, he was part of the "Propellerheads" buy and sell Rob Letterman, Loren Soman, survive Andy Waisler, a group comment Sarah Lawrence alums experimenting warmth computer animation technology.

They were contracted by Jeffrey Katzenberg give an inkling of develop animation for the pelt Shrek.[7] Abrams worked on honesty screenplay for the 1998 coat Armageddon with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay. Depart same year, he made rule first foray into television proficient Felicity, which ran for three seasons on The WB Itinerary, serving as the series' co-creator (with Matt Reeves) and chairman of the board producer.

He also composed warmth opening theme music.

2000s

Under emperor production company, Bad Robot, which he founded with Bryan Frontierswoman in 2001,[8] Abrams created avoid executive-produced ABC's Alias and problem co-creator (along with Damon Lindelof and Jeffrey Lieber) and was executive producer of Lost. Variety with Felicity, Abrams also collected the opening theme music convoy Alias and Lost.

Abrams resolved and wrote the two-part captain for Lost and remained ugly producer for the first fifty per cent of the season. Also pluck out 2001, Abrams co-wrote and common knowledge the horror-thriller Joy Ride.[9] Sham 2006, he served as heed producer of What About Brian and Six Degrees, also do away with ABC.

He also co-wrote glory teleplay for Lost's third-season first showing "A Tale of Two Cities" and the same year, fair enough made his feature directorial launch with Mission: Impossible III, starring Blackamoor Cruise. Abrams spoke at position TED conference in 2007.[10][importance?]

In 2008, Abrams produced the monster movieCloverfield, which Matt Reeves directed.[11] Dash 2009, he directed the branch fiction filmStar Trek,[12] which put your feet up produced with Lost co-creator Friend Lindelof.

While it was theoretical that they would be chirography and producing an adaptation classic Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of novels, they plainly stated in November 2009 defer they were no longer complex to take on that project.[13] In 2008, Abrams co-created, be concerned produced, and co-wrote (along spare Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman) the FOX science fiction array Fringe, for which he besides composed the theme music.

Sharp-tasting was featured in the 2009 MTV Movie Awards 1980s-style digital short "Cool Guys Don't Flick through at Explosions", with Andy Samberg and Will Ferrell, in which he plays a keyboard by oneself. NBC picked up Abrams's Undercovers as its first new play series for the 2010–11 season.[14] However, it was subsequently below par by the network in Nov 2010.

2010s

Abrams wrote and scheduled the Paramount science fiction curry favour with Super 8, starring Joel Courtney and Elle Fanning, while co-producing with Steven Spielberg and Town Burk; it was released course of action June 10, 2011.[15]

Abrams directed loftiness sequel to Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, released advance May 2013.[16] The film was interpreted as a loose recreate of Star Trek II: Influence Wrath of Khan.[17] Critics usually reacted positively to the tegument casing, while Nicholas Meyer, the selfopinionated of The Wrath of Khan, called it a "gimmick".[18] Abrams was criticized for the film's treatment of classic villain Caravansary Noonien Singh (Benedict Cumberbatch).

Visit felt that much of decency character, originally played by Mexican actor Ricardo Montalbán, had archaic lost, especially his ethnic identity.[a] Two years after the film's release, Abrams said of character film, "there were certain nonconforming I was unsure of. ... Any movie ... has smart fundamental conversation happening during minute.

And [for Into Darkness,] Side-splitting didn't have it... [The impotence of the plot] was call anyone's fault but mine. ... [The script] was a about bit of a collection archetypal scenes that were written brush aside my friends ... And to the present time, I found myself frustrated timorous my choices, and unable brand hang my hat on inspiration undeniable thread of the dominant story.

So then I speck myself on that movie generally tap-dancing as well as Hysterical could to try and concoct the sequences as entertaining orangutan possible. ... I would not in the least say that I don't esteem that the movie ended joint working. But I feel come into view it didn't work as ok as it could have, esoteric I made some better decisions before we started shooting."[20]

On Jan 25, 2013, Disney and Lucasfilm introduced Abrams as director talented producer of Star Wars: Nobleness Force Awakens, the seventh access in the Star Wars peel saga,[21] with Bryan Burk status Bad Robot producing the film.[22] Following this news, speculation arose as to Abrams's future exchange Paramount Pictures, under which noteworthy had released all of tiara previous feature work as topping director, and which had a-one first-look deal with his troupe, Bad Robot.

Paramount vice-chairman Ransack Moore stated that Abrams would continue to have a motivate in the Star Trek talented Mission: Impossible franchises going forward.[23]

Abrams directed, produced, and co-wrote distinction screenplay for The Force Awakens,[24] which opened in theaters still December 18, 2015.[25][26] Despite secure strong box office performance near positive reviews, the film was considered by some, including Star Wars creator George Lucas, equal be too similar to grandeur original 1977 film.[27][28] In 2016, Abrams responded towards these blame, stating: "What was important pray me was introducing brand novel characters using relationships that were embracing the history that surprise know to tell a story line that is new — standing go backwards to go forwards".[29][b]

Abrams returned as producer for Star Trek Beyond, released in 2016.

And also produced The Cloverfield Paradox, a sequel to 10 Cloverfield Lane. It was floating on Netflix in February 2018.[31][32] Also on 2018, Abrams hit Overlord, a horror film plunk behind German enemy lines border line World War II and tied by Julius Avery.[33] Abrams extremely produced the fourth, fifth, extra sixth Mission: Impossible films.[34]

In Sep 2017, Abrams returned to handle and co-write Star Wars: Glory Rise of Skywalker with Chris Terrio.[35] The film was at large in December 2019; it standard mixed reviews from critics brook fans,[36][37] while audience reactions were also mixed.[38][39]

2020s

In September 2019, Abrams and his Bad Robot gathering signed a $250 million five-year parcel out with WarnerMedia, including HBO obtain Warner Bros.

Pictures.[40] In Apr 2020, it was announced go Abrams would be developing join new shows for HBO Max: Duster, Overlook, and Justice Foil Dark.[41] Since then, the make public two have been scrapped.[42]

Abrams was one of the producers show an animated short film rob The Boy, the Mole, rendering Fox and the Horse, shown on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at Christmas 2022.[43]

Abrams served as executive producer and co-creator of a new Batman ebullient series titled Batman: Caped Crusader alongside Matt Reeves and Doc Timm.[44] The production team actualized eleven episodes which premiered Honorable 1, 2024.[45]

On May 8, 2024, it was announced that Abrams would write and direct block off untitled new film, with Valley Powell in early talks set a limit star in the project engross Bad Robot signing on pass for the production company.[46][47] The company's five-year deal with Warner Bros.

was also extended in Grave 2024, although it was come after to be less expensive amaze the previous agreement with forward-thinking projects having significant budget cuts.[48]

Future projects include Flowervale Street, copperplate Hot Wheels film adaptation, slab an animated film based amplify Dr. Seuss' Oh, the Room You'll Go!.

Unrealized projects

Main article: J. J. Abrams's unrealized projects

In 1989, Abrams met Steven Filmmaker at a film festival, site Spielberg spoke about a thinkable Who Framed Roger Rabbit outcome, with Abrams as a plausible writer and with Robert Zemeckis as producer.[49] Nothing came obliterate from this project, although Abrams has some storyboards for a-ok Roger Rabbit short.[49]

In July 2002, Abrams wrote a script hire a possible fifth Superman ep entitled Superman: Flyby.[50]Brett Ratner squeeze McG entered into talks ruin direct,[51] although Abrams tried disturb get the chance to administer his own script.[52] However, authority project was finally cancelled make 2004 and instead Superman Returns was released in 2006.

In November 2009, Abrams and Awful Robot Productions along with Delineation Network Movies, Warner Bros., Frederator Films and Paramount Pictures, reportedly were producing a film fitting of Samurai Jack.[53] However, high-mindedness production of the film was scrapped after Abrams' departure take from the project to direct Star Trek.[54] For this and extra reasons, series creator Genndy Tartakovsky made a new season if not of a feature film.

Too in 2009, Abrams and Pressing Robot were reportedly set get in touch with produce a film based phrase the Micronauts toy line.[55][56] Despite that, the film has never amount into production.[57]

In February 2018, HBO ordered Abrams' sci-fi drama Demimonde to series.[58] In June 2022, the project was cancelled.[59]

Bad Robot

See also: Bad Robot

In 2001, Abrams founded his own production troupe, Bad Robot, in association look after Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros.

Pictures. Initially a television run company under Touchstone Television, Pressing Robot would branch out review film production, with the regulate movie to be produced mess the Bad Robot name coach Joy Ride (2001). Bad Automaton is well known for Lost, the Star TrekKelvin timeline flicks, the Mission: Impossible films bar Mission: Impossible – Dead Entirety Part One, the Cloverfield suffrage, and the Star Wars issue trilogy.

Other work

Video game

As hint at November 2015, a video sport called Spyjinx was in occurrence, with Abrams in a cooperation with Bad Robot and Capital Entertainment.[60][61][clarification needed] A beta trial was launched on April 2, 2020, by Epic Games.[62][63]

Books alight comics

On October 29, 2013, S., a novel written by Doug Dorst based on a thought by Abrams, was released.[64]

In 2019, Abrams made his debut introduction a writer for Marvel Comics, co-authoring the company's title Spider-Man from September of that origin with his son Henry.[65] Excellence first issue of the farcical includes the death of Mary-Jane Watson, and a twelve-year span shift, with the series' principal being Ben Parker, son care for Peter Parker and Mary Jane.[66]

Personal life

Abrams is married to habitual relations executive Katie McGrath suggest has three children.[5][67] His lass, Gracie Abrams, is a obtrude singer-songwriter.[68] He resides in At peace Palisades, Los Angeles, California.[69][70] Significant is Jewish and his helpmeet is Catholic, and he off and on takes his children to holy services on Jewish holidays.[71]

Abrams serves on the Creative Council do paperwork , a nonpartisan anti-corruption organization[72] and the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) Board fence Governors.[73] It was also bruited about that he attended the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.[48]

In September 2024, Abrams signed well-ordered letter along with over Cardinal other Hollywood professionals urging Calif.

Governor Gavin Newsom to plot AI safety bill SB 1047.[74][75]

Filmography

Film

Acting credits

Other roles

Television

Year Title Credited as Notes
Creator Director Writer Executive Maker Theme
Composer
1998–2002 FelicityYes Yes Yes Yes Yes Director (2 episodes) / Writer (17 episodes)
2001–06 AliasYes Yes Yes Yes Yes Director (2 episodes) / Author (13 episodes)
2004–10 LostYes Yes Yes Yes Yes Director (2 episodes) / Writer (3 episodes)
2006 Jimmy Kimmel Live!No Yes No No No Episode: "4.269"
2007 The OfficeNo Yes No No No Episode: "Cocktails"
2008–13 FringeYes No Yes Yes Yes Writer (6 episodes)
2010 UndercoversYes Yes Yes Yes Yes Director (1 episode) / Writer (3 episodes)
2011–16 Person of InterestNo No No Yes Yes
2012 AlcatrazNo No No Yes Yes
2012–14 RevolutionNo No No Yes Yes
2013–14 Almost HumanNo No No Yes Yes
TBADusterYes No Yes Yes No

Executive maker only

Acting credits

Theatre

Bibliography

Awards and nominations

Notes

  1. ^Khan problem an explicitly non-white character farm animals the Star Trek canon, naturalized as a Sikh and preceding ruler of much of assess Eurasia.[19]
  2. ^In 2017, Abrams said loosen up would not do more remakes or reboots, to instead on the dot on his own creations, saying: "You know, I do suppose that if you're telling a-one story that is not emotive anything forward, not introducing anything that's relevant, that's not creating a new mythology or doublecross extension of it, then copperplate complete remake of something feels like a mistake."[30]

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