Jonathan Mostow (born November 28, 1961, in Woodbridge, Connecticut) is an American film director, writer and producer.
A graduate of Harvard, Mostow also trained at the American Repertory Company and New York City's Lee Strasberg Institute. He helmed several short films and documentaries as well as music videos before making his first feature, the direct-to-video release Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers (1989). He then made the Showtime film Flight o...
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Jonathan Mostow (born November 28, 1961, in Woodbridge, Connecticut) is an American film director, writer and producer.
A graduate of Harvard, Mostow also trained at the American Repertory Company and New York City's Lee Strasberg Institute. He helmed several short films and documentaries as well as music videos before making his first feature, the direct-to-video release Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers (1989). He then made the Showtime film Flight of the Black Angel (1991), about a colonel who trains fighter pilots and his troubled protégé who wants to attack the local population.
Mostow established himself in the action genre with 1997's Breakdown. The thriller, starring Kurt Russell as a man whose wife seems to have vanished in the desert, was fairly well received at the box-office. He went on to co-found a production company with former executive Hal Lieberman and signed a four-year deal with Universal. He also spent several years developing The Game (1997), with the hope of directing...
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