Jonathan Liebesman

Jonathan Liebesman

出生 : 1976-09-15, Johannesburg, South Africa

略歴

Jonathan Liebesman was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on September 15, 1976. He would remain in his home country, studying filmmaking at the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, until 1996; that year, he traveled to New York City to visit his cousin who was attending New York University. Soon after the visit, Jonathan enrolled at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. For his student first film, Jonathan turned Roald Dahl's short story Genesis and Catastrophe (2000) into a 8-minute, award-winning short that help him land Hollywood representation; accolades included the 2000 Hollywood Film Festival's Young Filmmaker Award and the Austin Film Festival's Student Short Film Award. Jonathan would make his feature-film debut in 2002 with Darkness Falls (2003), a dark twist on the Tooth Fairy tale that opened at #1 at the box office despite being critically panned. It also served as the big-screen debut for Emma Caulfield Ford, long a fan-favorite as Anya Jenkins on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997). Rings (2005), his short film that connected The Ring (2002) and its sequel, was first released as a bonus disc with the re-release of The Ring on DVD. The short caught the attention of Michael Bay and his production company, Platinum Dunes, and soon Jonathan was installed as the director of the company's project The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006), a prequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), the widely successful remake of the original. Initially announced as the director of the Friday the 13th reboot, Jonathan's next feature would instead be The Killing Room (2009) with Peter Stormare, Chloë Sevigny, Clea DuVall, Timothy Hutton, Nick Cannon and Shea Whigham. The psychological thriller played the festival circuit before being released on DVD in the United States. A few months before The Killing Room's Sundance world premiere in January 2009, Jonathan was announced as the director of Battle Los Angeles (2011), an alien-invasion film starring Aaron Eckhart and released by Columbia Pictures. The sci-fi/action film was a worldwide hit and put Jonathan in the running for a handful of big-studio pictures. Before Battle LA's release, he had handed the job of directing Odysseus as Warner Bros., though that project remains in development at this time. Instead, Jonathan took the reins for Wrath of the Titans (2012), the sequel to successful but maligned Clash of the Titans (2010).

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Jonathan Liebesman
Jonathan Liebesman

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ミュータント・タートルズ
ミュータント・タートルズ
Director
ニューヨークで悪事を働く犯罪組織フット団を追っていたテレビレポーターのエイプリル、ある日、強盗に入ったフット団をこらしめる何者かの姿を目撃する。数日後、エイプリルは別の現場でフット団をやっつける何者かに遭遇。撮影に成功するも、そのヒーローたちの正体は人間の言葉を話し、体長180センチもあるカメだった。
タイタンの逆襲
タイタンの逆襲
Director
「タイタンの戦い」の続編。魔物クラーケンを倒してから10年、ペルセウスは男手一つで息子を育てていた。そんな折、神々とタイタン族の地上の支配権をめぐる戦いは日ごとに激しさを増していく。神々の王ゼウスと人間の母の間に誕生したペルセウスは、冥界の王ハデスの父への裏切りを知るが、冥府の虜囚となってしまう。完全に開いた冥府より現れた怪物キメラに、息子と住む町を襲われたペルセウスは再び世界の存亡をかけた戦いに挑む事を決意する。
世界侵略：ロサンゼルス決戦
世界侵略：ロサンゼルス決戦
Director
1942年、ロサンゼルス上空で発光する謎の飛行物体25機を空軍のレーダーがとらえる。その後もブエノスアイレスやソウル、ロンドンでも未知の飛行体が目撃されたが、その真相は不明だった。そして2011年、これまで世界各国で確認されたUFO事件を通して人類を監視してきたエイリアンたちがついに侵略を開始し、ロサンゼルスで海兵隊と市街戦を繰り広げる。
The Killing Room
The Killing Room
Executive Producer
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.
The Killing Room
The Killing Room
Director
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.
テキサスチェーンソー ビギニング
テキサスチェーンソー ビギニング
Director
1939年8月、一人の赤ん坊が食肉処理工場の血まみれの床で生まれた。その子は生まれながらの奇形児で、生肉の包装紙に包まれ、すぐにゴミ箱に捨てられた。たまたまゴミを漁っていた女に拾われた赤ん坊はトーマスと名付けられ、女の家族ヒューイット家で育てられる。 トーマスは6歳のとき、自傷性の変性顔面異常症と診断されるが、その頃から動物を殺して解体するなど異常性が際立っていた。 やがて9歳から食肉処理工場で働き始めた彼は、30歳のとき食肉処理工場が閉鎖されたショックから工場長をハンマーで殴り殺してしまう。住む土地に異常な執着を持つヒューイット家は、逮捕に来た地元の保安官を殺害し、その人肉を食卓に並べた。かくしてヒューイット一家の殺戮が始まった。 ある男女4人が交通事故に合い、内3名が保安官の格好をしたホイト･ヒューイットのパトカーに拘束されヒューイット家の自宅に連れて行かれてしまう。そこには冷酷な殺人鬼と変貌しつつあるレザーフェイス（トーマス）が待ち構えていた。
Rings
Rings
Writer
Some time after the events of The Ring, a subculture of people voluntarily watch Samara Morgan's video and wait to see how close to the seven-day deadline they can get before showing it to the next person. They record everything they see and share their experiences on a secret website dedicated to the videotape. No one has ever recorded a day seven.
Rings
Rings
Director
Some time after the events of The Ring, a subculture of people voluntarily watch Samara Morgan's video and wait to see how close to the seven-day deadline they can get before showing it to the next person. They record everything they see and share their experiences on a secret website dedicated to the videotape. No one has ever recorded a day seven.
黒の怨
黒の怨
Director
小さな灯台が建つ港町ダークネス・フォールズ。かつて、心優しい老女マチルダ・ディクソンが無実の罪で町の人々に虐殺され、以来、“トゥース・フェアリー”の別名を持つマチルダの怨念が町をさまよい、暗闇で彼女を見た者は必ず殺されるという伝説が語り継がれてきた。ある晩、カイル少年は偶然にもその姿を見てしまう。果たして彼もマチルダに襲われるが、彼女が光を嫌うことを知り、明るい浴室へ飛び込んで難を逃れる。しかし、カイルの母はマチルダに殺され、カイルは母親殺しの容疑者として施設へ送られてしまう…。
Genesis and Catastrophe
Genesis and Catastrophe
Director
From IMDB- " In a squalid German hospital, an overworked doctor tends to the difficult childbirth of Karla. We learn that Karla has lost three previous babies, and her husband is pessimistic about the survival of this one. But both Karla and the doctor believe this one will survive unfortunately, it turns out."