Douglas Eric Liman is an American film director and producer.
22 Facts About Doug Liman
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Doug Liman is co-owner with Dave Bartis, whom he met as an undergraduate at Brown University where they co-founded Brown Television and the National Association of College Broadcasters.
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Doug Liman began making short films while still in junior high school and studied at International Center of Photography in New York City.
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Doug Liman co-founded the NACB, the first trade association geared to student-staffed radio and television stations, in 1988.
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Doug Liman attended the graduate program at University of Southern California, where he was tapped to helm his first project in 1993, the comedy film Getting In.
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Doug Liman raised the funding and the film was made on the cheap, starring Favreau and his friends, ultimately cost $250,000.
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Doug Liman next directed Go, which tracks the events of a drug deal gone wrong through three different points of view as plot lines diverge and reconverge; Doug Liman was the film's cinematographer.
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In 1999, Doug Liman shot a commercial for Nike featuring Tiger Woods.
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Doug Liman next directed the 2002 action thriller The Bourne Identity starring Matt Damon, an adaptation of the 1980 Robert Ludlum novel.
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Doug Liman only directed the first Bourne film, after a notoriously "chaotic" shoot disrupted his relationship with the studio.
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Doug Liman executive-produced and directed the first two episodes of the successful Fox prime time drama The OC.
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Doug Liman produced and directed a series of comedy shorts for the Chrysler Film Project and Cannes Film Festival entitled Indie Is Great.
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In 2005, Doug Liman signed on to direct the pilot episode of NBC's television series Heist, which is about a season-long attempt to rob three jewelry stores on Beverly Hills' swanky Rodeo Drive.
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Doug Liman directed 2010's Fair Game, about the Plame affair, which competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
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In 2011, Doug Liman directed and produced I Just Want My Pants Back, a television series that aired on MTV.
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Doug Liman produced Covert Affairs and Suits, two original series on the USA Network.
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Doug Liman directed the film adaptation of the Hiroshi Sakurazaka novel, All You Need is Kill, released as Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise.
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However, Doug Liman has departed from the project due to schedule conflicts with the film Chaos Walking, that Doug Liman was working on that time.
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In January 2020, Doug Liman announced that the Edge of Tomorrow sequel, Live Die Repeat and Repeat, was currently in its early planning stages.
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In May 2020, it was reported that Doug Liman would be directing, writing, and producing a fictional movie shot in outer space.
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In November 2021, it was reported that Doug Liman was in talks to direct a remake of the 1989 film Road House, with Jake Gyllenhaal starring.
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In March 2022, Doug Liman signed on to direct and executive produce a television series adaptation of the 2015 book Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by activist and financier Bill Browder.