JJ Abrams

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Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (born June 27, 1966), also known as J. J. Abrams, is an American filmmaker.

He is best known for his works in the action, romance, and science fiction genres.

Abrams wrote or produced such films as Concerning Henry (1991), Forever Young (1992), Armageddon (2008), Cloverfield (2008), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) and The Rise of Skywalker (2006). Many television shows have been created by Abrams, including Felicity (co-creator 1998–2002), Alias (creator, 2001–2006), and Fringe (co-creator, 2008–2013).

He received two Emmy Awards for Lost — Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series. Mission: Impossible III (2006), Star Trek Into Darkness (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) were among his directorial film projects.

The Force Awakens, the seventh episode of the Star Wars saga and the first film of the sequel trilogy, was also directed, produced, and co-wrote.

The film is also his highest-grossing film of all time not adjusted for inflation.

Producer Bryan Burk, producer/director Tommy Gormley, actor Greg Grunberg, Simon Pegg and Keri Russell, producer Michael Giacchino, writer Michael Giacchino, editors Daniel Mindel and Larry Fong, and editor Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey all returned to Star Wars by co-writing, producing, and directing the ninth and final installment of the film saga, The Rise of Skywalker.

Early life

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams, a veteran television producer from Poland-Jewish descent and Carol Ann Abrams (born 1939) of Peabody Award winning television producer as well as a writer and law researcher, was born in New York City. Tracy Rosen, screenwriter, has been his brother. His father had just started his television career before beginning to work at CBS' flagship television station in Midtown Manhattan the year before Abrams' birth. His father had worked his way up at CBS by 1971, and the family had migrated to Los Angeles. While Abrams and his sister were attending classes, his mother served as a real estate agent.

Abrams attended Palisades High School and after graduation, Abrams planned on attending art school rather than a conventional college, but eventually enrolled at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronx, New York, following his father's advice: "it's more important to go outside and learn what to make movies about than how to make movies."

Personal life

Abrams is married to public relations professional Katie McGrath and has three children. Gracie Abrams, his son, is a pop singer-songwriter. He lives in Pacific Palisades, California. He is Jewish and his wife is Catholic, and he often brings his children to Jewish services on Jewish holidays.

Abrams is a member of the Creative Council of Represent.Us, a nonpartisan anti-corruption group and the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) Board of Governors.

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Film career

When Abrams' first work in film, he wrote the music for Don Dohler's 1982 horror film Nightbeast, he was 16 years old. He collaborated with Jill Mazursky, the daughter of award-winning writer/director Paul Mazursky's award-winning writer/director, to write a feature film about his senior year at college. The treatment, which was purchased by Touchstone Pictures, was the basis for Abrams' first feature film, starring Charles Grodin and James Belushi, and was directed by Academy Award winner Arthur Hiller. He followed Regarding Henry, starring Harrison Ford, and Forever Young, starring Mel Gibson. He co-wrote the script for the comedy Gone Fishin' starring Joe Pesci and Danny Glover, as well as Mazursky.

He was involved in the "Protesterheads" with Rob Letterman, Loren Soman, and Andy Waisler, a group of Sarah Lawrence alums who were interested in computer animation techniques in 1994. Jeffrey Katzenberg had them develop an animation for the film Shrek. Abrams co-produced the screenplay for the 1998 film Armageddon, alongside producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay. He made his first television appearance with Felicity, which aired on The WB Network for four seasons, as the series' co-creator (with Matt Reeves) and executive producer in the same year. He also wrote the company's opening theme tune.

Abrams co-created and executive produced ABC's Alias, as well as Damon Lindelof and Jeffrey Lieber, a production firm that he established with Bryan Burk in 2001), and was executive producer of Lost. As with Felicity, Abrams also created Alias and Lost's opening theme song. Abrams directed and wrote the two-part pilot for Lost, and remained a regular producer for the first half of the season. Abrams co-wrote and produced the horror-thriller Joy Ride in 2001. He appeared on ABC and What About Brian and Six Degrees in 2006. He also co-wrote the script for Lost's third-season premiere "A Tale of Two Cities" and the same year, he made his debut with Mission: Impossible III, starring Tom Cruise. In 2007, Abrams spoke at the TED conference.

Abrams made the epic film Cloverfield, which Matt Reeves directed in 2008. He produced Star Trek, the science fiction film that he created in 2009, which he produced with Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof. Although it was speculated that they would be writing and releasing an adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of books, they later announced in November 2009 that they were not planning to take on the challenge. Abrams co-created, executive produced, and co-wrote the FOX science fiction book Fringe, which also composed the theme tune in 2008. He appeared in the MTV Movie Awards 1980s-style digital short "Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions," with Andy Samberg and Will Ferrell, in which he plays a keyboard solo. Undercovers, NBC's first new drama series for the 2010–11 season. However, it was then removed by the network in November 2010.

While co-producing with Steven Spielberg and Bryan Burk, Abrams wrote and directed the Paramount science fiction thriller Super 8, starring Joel Courtney and Elle Fanning, while co-producing with Steven Spielberg and Bryan Burk on June 10, 2011.

In May 2013, Abrams produced the sequel to Star Trek: Into Darkness, which was released in May 2013. The film was regarded as a loosening of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Critics generally responded positively to the film, though Nicholas Meyer, the film's producer, called it a "gimmick." Khan Noonien Singh, a classic villain in the film, was chastised (Benedict Cumberbatch). Many believed that a large part of the character, which was originally played by Mexican actor Ricardo Montalban, had been erased, especially his ethnicity. "There were certain things I was unsure of two years after the film was released," Abrams said of the film. ... Any film...has a fundamental discussion occurring during it. And [for Into Darkness]: I didn't have it [the plot's flaws] was not anyone's fault but mine]. [The script] was a little bit of a collection of scenes that were written by my friends, but I was dissatisfied with my choices and was unable to hang my hat on an unreliable line of the main story. So, I found myself on that movie mostly tap-dancing as well as being able to make the sequences as entertaining as possible. ... I would never say that the film came to a conclusion. However, I think it didn't work as well as it should have, if I had made some more informed decisions before starting shootings.

With Bryan Burk and Bad Robot Productions directing Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh installment in the Star Wars film saga, Disney and Lucasfilm announced Abrams as the director and producer of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens film. Following this reporting, rumors arose concerning Abrams' future with Paramount Pictures, under which he had previously released all of his previous film roles as a director and had a first-look contract with his company, Bad Robot Productions. Rob Moore, the Paramount vice chairman, confirmed that Abrams would continue to participate in the Star Trek and Mission: Impossible franchises moving forward.

The Force Awakens' screenplay, which premiered in theaters on December 18, 2015, was directed, produced, and co-wrote the script. Despite its strong box office success and positive reviews, some, including Star Wars creator George Lucas, felt that the film was too similar to the original 1977 film. "What was important to me was telling a tale that is new — to go backwards to go forwards," Abrams responded to these allegations in 2016.

Abrams, a producer for Star Trek Beyond, has returned as the creator of the series. The Cloverfield Paradox is also a sequel to 10 Cloverfield Lane, and he produced The Cloverfield Paradox, a sequel to 10 Cloverfield Lane. In February 2018, Netflix unveiled it on Netflix. Overlord, a horror film shot behind German enemy lines in World War II and directed by Julius Avery, was released by Abrams on August 18, 2018. Mission: Impossible films by Abrams also produced the fourth, fifth, and sixth Mission: Impossible films.

In September 2017, Abrams and Chris Terrio co-authored Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The film was released in December 2019; critics and followers gave it mixed feedback, but audience reactions tended to be more positive.

It was announced in 2008 that Abrams had purchased the rights to a New York Times article "Mystery on Fifth Avenue" about the renovation of an 8.5 million dollar co-op, a division of E. F. Hutton & Co. and Marjorie Merriweather Post, and that Marjorie Merriweather Post's property, "Mystery on Fifth Avenue," and that comedy writers Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky wrote the script. According to the story, a wealthy couple Steven B. Klinsky and Maurice Sherry purchased the apartment in 2003 and lived there with their four children. They hired young architectural designer Eric Clough, who created an elaborately clever "scavenger hunt" built into the apartment, which included scores of historical figures, a fictional book, and a soundtrack, weaving throughout the apartment in puzzles, riddles, obscure compartments, and hidden codes that were otherwise unnoticed by the couple's knowledge. The family didn't find the mystery until months after moving to the apartment. Clough left an encrypted message in the wall tiles of a Christian Louboutin shoe store he designed in West Hollywood after Abrams bought the book.

Abrams revealed in July 2016 that a fourth alternate universe Star Trek installment was in the works, and he is positive that Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Chris Hemsworth will appear in the sequel.

Abrams and Avery had reunited in May 2018 to produce and direct a superhero thriller called The Heavy, with a script written by Daniel Casey. Sometime in 2018, Both Paraphrasedoutput and Bad Robot are planning to film.

Abrams will produce and Guillermo del Toro will write and direct a science-fiction action/thriller film called Zanbato, which Abrams has been working on since 2011.

In September 2019, Abrams and his Bad Robot Productions firm, as well as HBO and Warner Bros. Pictures, agreed to a $250 million five-year contract with WarnerMedia. Abrams will produce three new shows for HBO Max in April 2020: Justice League Dark, Overlook, and Duster. As well as Reeves and Bruce Timm, Abrams will appear as executive producer and co-creator of a new Batman animated film titled Batman: Caped Crusader.

Abrams is one of the creators of an animated short film of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse, which will be broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at Christmas 2022.

Abrams attended Steven Spielberg's 1989 film festival, where Spielberg discussed a potential Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel with Abrams as a potential writer and producer Robert Zemeckis as producer. This initiative didn't turn up, though Abrams does have some storyboards for a Roger Rabbit short.

Abrams wrote a script for a possible fifth Superman film, Superman: Flyby, in July 2002. Brett Ratner and McGratner began talks to direct, but Abrams denied him the opportunity to write his own script. Nonetheless, the program was eventually cancelled in 2004, but instead Superman Returns was released in 2006.

According to reports, Abrams and Bad Robot Productions, Cartoon Network Movies, Warner Bros., Frederator Films, and Paramount Pictures were producing a film version of Samurai Jack in November 2009. However, the film's development was suspended following Abrams' departure from the project to direct Star Trek. Genndy Tartakovsky, a television programmer, produced a new season rather than a feature film for this and other reasons. Abrams and Bad Robot Productions were both expected to produce a film based on the Micronauts toy line in 2009. However, the film has never been produced.

HBO ordered Abrams' sci-fi drama Demimonde to air in February 2018. The scheme was cancelled in June 2022.

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