Jonathan Liebesman
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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
[error] 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).Currently, Jonathan is in development on
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
at Paramount and an
Untitled Julius Caesar Project
with Warner Bros.
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
[error] 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).Currently, Jonathan is in development on
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
at Paramount and an
Untitled Julius Caesar Project
with Warner Bros.