J. J. Abrams

Quick Facts

Full Name	J. J. Abrams
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Jun 27, 1966(1966-06-27)
Age	58
Birthplace	New York City
Country	United States
Birth City	New York City
Horoscope	Cancer

J. J. Abrams Biography

J. J. Abrams is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on June 27, 1966 in New York City, New York City, United States. Abrams was born and raised in New York City, the son of television producer Gerald W. Abrams (born 1939) and executive producer Carol Ann Abrams (née Kelvin; 1942–2012). His sister is screenwriter Tracy Rosen. He attended Palisades High School. After graduating from high school, Abrams planned on going to art school rather than a traditional college, but eventually enrolled at Sarah Lawrence College, following his father’s advice: “it’s more important that you go off and learn what to make movies about than how to make movies.”

In 1994, he was part of the “Propellerheads” with Rob Letterman, Loren Soman, and Andy Waisler, a group of Sarah Lawrence alums experimenting with computer animation technology. They were contracted by Jeffrey Katzenberg to develop animation for the film Shrek. Abrams worked on the screenplay for the 1998 film Armageddon with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay. That same year, he made his first foray into television with Felicity, which ran for four seasons on The WB Network, serving as the series’ co-creator (with Matt Reeves) and executive producer. He also composed its opening theme music.

In July 2002, Abrams wrote a script for a possible fifth Superman film entitled Superman: Flyby. Brett Ratner and McG entered into talks to direct, although Abrams tried to get the chance to direct his own script. However, the project was finally cancelled in 2004 and instead Superman Returns was released in 2006.

His directorial film work includes Mission: Impossible III (2006), Star Trek (2009), Super 8 (2011), and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). He also directed, produced and co-wrote The Force Awakens, the seventh episode of the Star Wars saga and the first film of the sequel trilogy. The film is his highest- grossing, as well as the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time not adjusted for inflation. He returned to Star Wars by directing and co-writing The Rise of Skywalker (2019).

In 1989, Abrams met Steven Spielberg at a film festival, where Spielberg spoke about a possible Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel, with Abrams as a possible writer and with Robert Zemeckis as producer. Nothing came up from this project, although Abrams has some storyboards for a Roger Rabbit short.

J. J. Abrams Net Worth

J. J. Abrams is one of the richest Film Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, J. J. Abrams 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (born June 27, 1966) is an American filmmaker. He is known for his work in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. Abrams wrote or produced such films as Regarding Henry (1991), Forever Young (1992), Armageddon (1998), Cloverfield (2008), Star Trek (2009), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Abrams has created numerous 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 Emmy Awards for Lost — Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series.

Abrams’ first job in the movie business was at age 16 when he wrote the music for Don Dohler’s 1982 horror movie Nightbeast. During his senior year at college, he teamed with Jill Mazursky to write a feature film treatment. Purchased by Touchstone Pictures, the treatment was the basis for Taking Care of Business, Abrams’ first produced film, which starred Charles Grodin and James Belushi. He followed with Regarding Henry, starring Harrison Ford, and Forever Young, starring Mel Gibson. He also co-wrote with Mazursky the script for the comedy Gone Fishin’ starring Joe Pesci and Danny Glover.

Under his production company, Bad Robot, which he founded with Bryan Burk in 2001, Abrams created and executive-produced ABC’s Alias and is co-creator (along with Damon Lindelof and Jeffrey Lieber) and was executive producer of Lost. As with Felicity, Abrams also composed the opening theme music for Alias and Lost. Abrams directed and wrote the two-part pilot for Lost and remained active producer for the first half of the season. Also in 2001, Abrams co- wrote and produced the horror-thriller Joy Ride. In 2006, he served as executive producer of What About Brian and Six Degrees, also on ABC. He also co-wrote the teleplay for Lost’ s third-season premiere “A Tale of Two Cities” and the same year, he made his feature directorial debut with Mission: Impossible III, starring Tom Cruise. Abrams spoke at the TED conference in 2007.

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Who is J. J. Abrams Dating?

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He 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; it was released on June 10, 2011. Abrams directed the sequel to Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, released in May 2013. The film ended being considered less original than its predecessor and more of a loose remake of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Despite critics reacting positively towards the film, Nicholas Meyer the director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan from which Into Darkness borrowed lines and plot elements, revealed in 2018, to have been disappointed with the film. Meyer was quoted saying: “In my sort of artistic worldview, if you’re going to do an homage, you have to add something. You have to put another layer on it, and they didn’t. Just by putting the same words in different characters’ mouths didn’t add up to anything, and if you have someone dying in one scene and sort of being resurrected immediately after there’s no real drama going on. It just becomes a gimmick or gimmicky, and that’s what I found it to be ultimately.”

Facts & Trivia

J. Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. J. J. Abrams celebrates birthday on June 27 of every year.

Abrams announced at the 2013 D.I.C.E. Summit that Bad Robot Productions had made a deal with Valve to produce a film based on either the video game title Portal or Half-Life. On September 9, 2013, it was announced that Abrams would release a novel, S., written by Doug Dorst. The book was released on October 29, 2013.

Is J.J. Abrams rich?

Abrams’ Net Worth and Salary? J.J. Abrams is an American film and television producer, screenwriter, director, actor and composer who has a net worth of $300 million dollars.

Did J.J. Abrams do Lost?

Abrams, byname of Jeffrey Jacob Abrams, (born June 27, 1966, New York City, New York, U.S.), American writer, director, and producer who was known for his role in creating several hit television series, including Lost (2004–10) , and for his blockbuster action and science-fiction movies, notably Star Wars: The Force …

Why did J.J. Abrams not direct the last Jedi?

Just as he was wary to start the franchise, Abrams was hesitant to end it. He initially wanted to pursue other projects, but eventually agreed to return to Star Wars. The issue with the final product is that he created the finale he wanted, not the one set up by Johnson’s The Last Jedi.

Has J.J. Abrams made anything good?

And while Abrams has only made six films thus far, the fact remains that he’s one of the most powerful and influential directors in Hollywood – in 2019 he signed a deal worth $250 million to develop, produce, and direct projects for WarnerMedia through his Bad Robot Productions company.

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