James Platten Vanderbilt (born November 17, 1975)[2][3] is an American filmmaker best known for the films Zodiac (2007), White House Down (2013), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), Murder Mystery (2019) and Scream (2022). He also contributed as producer for the films The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) and Ready or Not (2019), where he cameoed as demon Mr. Le Bail.
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Born | James Platten Vanderbilt November 17, 1975 (1975-11-17) (age 46) United States |
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Spouse | Amber Freeman (m. 2005) |
Family | Vanderbilt family |
A member of the Vanderbilt family of New York, James Vanderbilt is the son of Alison Campbell (née Platten) and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt III.[4] His paternal great-grandfather Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr. died on the RMS Lusitania in the 1915 sinking, his paternal grandfather, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., once chaired the New York Racing Association, and his maternal grandfather, Donald Campbell Platten, was the chief executive and chairman of Chemical Bank.[1][2][5]
Vanderbilt was raised in Norwalk, Connecticut, and attended school at New Canaan Country School.[6] He is a graduate of St. Paul's School and the University of Southern California.[1]
His production company, Mythology Entertainment, started in 2011.[7] It was later reincorporated into Project X Entertainment as of 2019.[8]
In May 2016, Vanderbilt's Mythology Entertainment acquired intellectual property rights to Slender Man from the character's creator Eric Knudsen.[9] Vanderbilt later produced a film adaptation of the character in 2018.
In 2020, Vanderbilt co-wrote the script for the fifth installment of the Scream franchise, starring Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, Marley Shelton, Dylan Minnette, Mason Gooding, Kyle Gallner, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mikey Madison and Sonia Ben Ammar.[10] The film was released on January 14, 2022.[11][12]
Year | Title | Writer | Producer | Director | Notes |
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2003 | Darkness Falls | Yes | No | Jonathan Liebesman | |
Basic | Yes | Yes | John McTiernan | ||
The Rundown | Yes | No | Peter Berg | ||
2007 | Zodiac | Yes | Yes | David Fincher | |
2010 | The Losers | Yes | No | Sylvain White | |
2012 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Yes | No | Marc Webb | |
2014 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Story | No | ||
2015 | Truth | Yes | Yes | Himself | Directorial debut |
2016 | Independence Day: Resurgence | Yes | No | Roland Emmerich | |
2018 | Slender Man | No | Yes | Sylvain White | |
The House with a Clock in Its Walls | No | Yes | Eli Roth | ||
2019 | Murder Mystery | Yes | Yes | Kyle Newacheck | |
Ready or Not | No | Yes | Matt Bettinelli-Olpin Tyler Gillett |
Cameo, Mr. Le Bail | |
2022 | Scream | Yes | Yes | ||
Ambulance | No | Yes | Michael Bay | ||
2023 | Scream 6 | Yes | Yes | Matt Bettinelli-Olpin Tyler Gillett |
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TBA | Murder Mystery 2 | Yes | Yes | Jeremy Garelick | |
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