Josh Klausner
Josh Klausner | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Education | Princeton University |
| Spouse | Hyatt Bass |
| Children | 2 sons |
| Relatives | Sid Bass (father-in-law) Anne Hendricks Bass (mother-in-law) |
Josh Klausner is an American screenwriter who wrote Date Night (2010) and Shrek Forever After (2010).
Biography
[edit ]Early life
[edit ]Josh Klausner graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.[1] [2] After college, he won a Sundance Student Academy Award for a short film he had made.[3]
Career
[edit ]He started his career in the movie industry as an assistant for Dumb & Dumber in 1994.[4] He then worked as the second unit director for Kingpin in 1996, There’s Something About Mary in 1998, Me, Myself & Irene in 2000, and Shallow Hal in 2001.[5]
He was the screenwriter of The 4th Floor (1999), Date Night (2010), and Shrek Forever After (2010).[5] In 2018, he was replaced by Jon Croker in the screenwriting of the animated film adaptation of High in the Clouds .[6]
Personal life
[edit ]He is married to Hyatt Bass, a novelist and Texas oil heiress. They have two sons. They reside in a 12,000 square-foot house on Greenwich Street in the West Village, Manhattan, New York City. The house, a former film studio, was redesigned by architect Annabelle Selldorf for them.[7] The house, described as "a fortress", was sold for 42ドル.5 million in 2014, "one of most expensive single-family houses to ever sell in Manhattan".[8]
Filmography
[edit ]| Year | Title | Director | Writer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | The 4th Floor | Yes | Yes |
| 2007 | Shrek the Third | No | Additional |
| 2010 | Date Night | No | Yes |
| Shrek Forever After | No | Yes | |
| 2018 | Wanderland | Yes | Yes |
Production assistant
- Dumb & Dumber (1994)
Second unit director
- Kingpin (1996)
- There's Something About Mary (1998)
- Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
- Shallow Hal (2001)
References
[edit ]- ^ Milano-Firenze, Mo-Net s.r.l. "Josh Klausner - MYmovies". www.mymovies.it.
- ^ "Princeton Alumni Weekly". princeton alumni weekly. 23 August 1991. p. 59 – via Google Books.
- ^ Klausner, Josh (2017年10月06日). "How an Independent Filmmaker Went From Being the Farrelly Brothers' Assistant to Making the Movies That Studios Wouldn't". IndieWire. Retrieved 2024年05月16日.
- ^ "Josh Klausner". IMDb.
- ^ a b Stuart Miller, Josh Klausner: Learned about laughs on the set, Variety , December 3, 2010
- ^ Koller, Cameron (2018年01月10日). "Paul McCartney Taps New Writer for Animated Movie". www.animationmagazine.net. Retrieved 2024年05月16日.
- ^ Satow, Julie (2013年10月24日). "Palaces-in-the-Making". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2024年05月16日.
- ^ Budin, Jeremiah (2014年09月15日). "West Village's Impenetrable Fortress Mansion Sells for 42ドル.5M". Curbed NY. Retrieved 2024年05月16日.