Jeffrey Jacob Abrams was born on June 27,1966 and is an American filmmaker and composer.
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38 Facts About JJ Abrams
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JJ Abrams is best known for his works in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction.
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JJ Abrams has created numerous television series, including Felicity, Alias, Lost, and Fringe.
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JJ Abrams won two Emmy Awards for Lost – Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series.
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JJ Abrams's father had just begun his career in television, working at CBS's flagship television station in Midtown Manhattan the year prior to Abrams' birth.
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JJ Abrams's mother worked as a real estate agent while Abrams and his sister were at school.
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JJ Abrams followed with Regarding Henry, starring Harrison Ford, and Forever Young, starring Mel Gibson.
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JJ Abrams co-wrote with Mazursky the script for the comedy Gone Fishin' starring Joe Pesci and Danny Glover.
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JJ Abrams worked on the screenplay for the 1998 film Armageddon with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay.
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Under his production company, Bad Robot, which he founded with Bryan Burk in 2001, JJ Abrams created and executive-produced ABC's Alias and is co-creator and was executive producer of Lost.
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JJ Abrams directed and wrote the two-part pilot for Lost and remained active producer for the first half of the season.
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In 2008, JJ Abrams produced the monster movie Cloverfield, which Matt Reeves directed.
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In 2008, JJ Abrams co-created, executive produced, and co-wrote the FOX science fiction series Fringe, for which he composed the theme music.
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JJ Abrams was featured in the 2009 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.
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JJ 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; it was released on June 10,2011.
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JJ Abrams was criticized for the film's treatment of classic villain Khan Noonien Singh.
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Paramount vice-chairman Rob Moore stated that JJ Abrams would continue to have a hand in the Star Trek and Mission: Impossible franchises going forward.
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JJ Abrams directed, produced, and co-wrote the screenplay for The Force Awakens, which opened in theaters on December 18,2015.
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In 2016, JJ Abrams responded towards these complaints, stating: "What was important for me was introducing brand new characters using relationships that were embracing the history that we know to tell a story that is new — to go backwards to go forwards".
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JJ Abrams returned as producer for Star Trek Beyond, released in 2016.
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Also on 2018, JJ Abrams produced Overlord, a horror film set behind German enemy lines in World War II and directed by Julius Avery.
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JJ Abrams produced the fourth, fifth, and sixth Mission: Impossible films.
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In September 2017, JJ Abrams returned to direct and co-write Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker with Chris Terrio.
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In 2008, it was reported that JJ Abrams purchased the rights to a New York Times article "Mystery on Fifth Avenue" about the renovation of an 8.
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In July 2016, JJ Abrams reported that a fourth alternate universe Star Trek installment was in the works and that he is confident that Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Chris Hemsworth will return for the sequel.
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JJ Abrams will serve as executive producer and co-creator of a new Batman animated series titled Batman: Caped Crusader alongside Reeves and Bruce Timm.
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JJ Abrams is one of the producers of an animated short film of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, which was scheduled to be aired on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at Christmas 2022.
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In 1989, JJ Abrams met Steven Spielberg at a film festival, where Spielberg spoke about a possible Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel, with JJ Abrams as a possible writer and with Robert Zemeckis as producer.
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In July 2002, JJ Abrams wrote a script for a possible fifth Superman film entitled Superman: Flyby.
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In 2001, JJ Abrams founded his own production company Bad Robot Productions in association with Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros.
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In November 2015, JJ Abrams was developing a video game called Spyjinx, in a collaboration between Bad Robot Productions and Chair Entertainment.
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In 2019, JJ Abrams made his debut as a writer for Marvel Comics, co-authoring the company's title Spider-Man from September of that year with his son Henry.
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JJ Abrams is married to public relations executive Katie McGrath and has three children.
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