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Rodney Rothman is an American writer, producer, and film director known for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, 22 Jump Street, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek, Undeclared, and Late Show with David Letterman.

Rodney Rothman
Rothman at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	United States
Occupation	Television writer, producer, author, screenwriter, film director

He has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, and also wrote the scripts for Grudge Match, 22 Jump Street and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which served as his feature directorial debut.

Rothman is the author of the best-selling nonfiction humor book Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and McSweeney's Quarterly. His piece "My Fake Job" was included in The Best American Nonrequired Reading.

His work on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse earned him the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and Annie Awards for Directing and Writing in a Feature Production.

Career

In 2005, Rothman wrote the book Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement.[1] He has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, and also wrote the scripts for Grudge Match, 22 Jump Street and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which served as his feature directorial debut. He co-directed the film with Bob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey, and co-wrote with Phil Lord. His work on the film earned him the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and Annie Awards for Directing and Writing in a Feature Production.

In 2021, Rothman partnered with former MGM Co-President of Production Adam Rosenberg to form Modern Magic, a media company focused "on creating event entertainment for the 21st-century audience, across animation and live-action". Modern Magic's upcoming projects include: an original animated feature inspired by the music of the late rapper Juice WRLD, an animated feature based on the SXSW award-winning short film Nuevo Rico, and a live-action feature that Quinta Brunson is currently scripting for Sony Pictures.[2]

On August 15, 2022, Rothman revealed (via Twitter) that he was the person that Chris Farley picked up and threw into a dumpster during Farley's appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman in February 1996. Rothman was a writer at the Late Show at the time.[3]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Writer	Producer	Notes
1995–2000	Late Show with David Letterman	Yes	Yes	Apprentice writer (1995–1996); Staff writer (1996–1998); Head writer (1998–2000); Producer (1999–2000)[4]
2001–2002	Undeclared	Yes	supervising
2004	Game Over	No	consultant
	$5.15/hr.	Yes	executive	TV pilot for HBO
2005	Early Bird	No	executive	Creator; TV pilot for NBC
	Committed	Yes	supervising
2006	Help Me Help You	Yes	executive
	The 78th Annual Academy Awards	Yes	No
TBA	The Promised Neverland	No	executive	Director[5]

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
2013	Grudge Match	No	Yes	Co-writer, screenplay only (with Tim Kelleher)
2014	22 Jump Street	No	Yes	Co-writer, screenplay only (with Michael Bacall and Oren Uziel)
2018	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Yes	Yes	Feature directorial debut Co-director (with Bob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey) Co-writer, screenplay only (with Phil Lord)
2023	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	No	Yes	Story only (with Bob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey)

References

External links

• Rodney Rothman at IMDb

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Rodney Rothman (* 20. Jahrhundert) ist ein US-amerikanischer Autor, Produzent und Regisseur.

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Рóдни Рóтман (англ. Rodney Rothman) — американский писатель, продюсер и кинорежиссер.

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