15 Facts About Simon Kinberg

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Simon David Kinberg was born on August 2,1973 and is a British-born American filmmaker.

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Simon Kinberg has served as a producer on others including Cinderella and The Martian, the latter which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Simon Kinberg appears in the movie, in a scene with Brad Pitt.

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Simon Kinberg reunited with director Doug Liman for the film Jumper.

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Simon Kinberg was the producer of X-Men: First Class, and both writer and producer of This Means War.

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Simon Kinberg was co-screenwriter and an executive producer of the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in that same year.

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In 2015, Simon Kinberg produced the Neill Blomkamp film Chappie and the live-action version of Cinderella at Disney.

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Simon Kinberg worked on Fantastic Four as writer and producer.

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Simon Kinberg wrote and produced X-Men: Apocalypse, the next film in the X-Men franchise following X-Men: Days of Future Past.

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Simon Kinberg produced 2016's Deadpool, 2017's Logan, 2018's Deadpool 2,2019's Dark Phoenix and The New Mutants, all of which are X-Men spin-off films.

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Simon Kinberg produced Murder on the Orient Express, an adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel of the same name.

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The Hollywood Reporter initially reported that Lawrence Kasdan, writer of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and Simon Kinberg would write and produce Episodes VIII and IX of the new Star Wars films.

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Simon Kinberg executive produced the third revival of the science fiction anthology series, The Twilight Zone which premiered in 2019.

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Simon Kinberg married Mali Heled in a Jewish ceremony on July 26,2001.

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Simon Kinberg received a lifetime achievement award from the Saturn Awards in 2016.