1. Simon David Kinberg was born on August 2,1973 and is an American filmmaker.
16 Facts About Simon Kinberg
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Simon Kinberg wrote and produced a number of films in the X-Men film franchise for 20th Century Fox, and had produced a number of other projects for Fox, such as The Martian, which earned him an Academy Award nomination 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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On November 7,2024, it was announced that Simon Kinberg has been hired by Lucasfilm to write and co-produce a new trilogy of Star Wars films along with Kathleen Kennedy.
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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.