Leigh Janiak is best known for directing the horror films Honeymoon and the Fear Street trilogy.
19 Facts About Leigh Janiak
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Leigh Janiak completed an undergraduate course in comparative religion at New York University, before studying at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and then at a graduate school at the University of Chicago, where she was studying for a PhD in Modern Jewish literature.
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Leigh Janiak moved to Los Angeles in 2005, where she worked for two production companies.
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Leigh Janiak was afraid that shadowing a veteran director would affect her career as a female filmmaker as she did not want to be stigmatized.
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Leigh Janiak made her directorial debut with the horror film Honeymoon, starring Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway, debuting the film at the South by Southwest Festival in 2014.
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The film's development started in 2010, and Leigh Janiak began writing the script together with Phil Graziadei in 2012.
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In May 2015, Sony Pictures announced that Leigh Janiak would be writing and directing a remake of the 1996 horror film The Craft.
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In 2017, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Leigh Janiak was no longer attached to the project.
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Leigh Janiak directed some episodes of horror TV shows Scream and Outcast.
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Leigh Janiak directed season 1, episode 7, "In the Trenches" and season 2, episode 9, "The Orphange" for Scream.
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Leigh Janiak directed season 1, episode 1 of Amazon Studios' 2021 teen drama series Panic.
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In July 2017, a trilogy of films adapting R L Stine's Fear Street series of novels was announced by 20th Century Fox, with Janiak set to direct and rewrite the scripts with Graziadei.
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On July 19,2021, it was announced that Leigh Janiak was set to direct two episodes of the upcoming crime drama miniseries The Staircase.
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The series was shot in 2021 in Atlanta, GA, and Leigh Janiak was brought on to direct two episodes.
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Leigh Janiak directed episode 5, "The Beating Heart", and episode 6, "Red in Tooth and Claw".
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The Fear Street Trilogy allowed Leigh Janiak to create a horror film that told the stories of outsiders.
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Leigh Janiak married fellow filmmaker Ross Duffer in Palm Springs, California, in December 2015.
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The couple met in 2006 at a production company in Los Angeles, where Leigh Janiak was an assistant to the producer and Duffer was an intern.
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In February 2024, Leigh Janiak filed for divorce from Duffer after nine years of marriage.