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David Ready is an American film producer and production executive, and an EVP at Chernin Entertainment.

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Life and career

A native of Boston and graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Ready previously was a production executive for Jerry Weintraub and subsequently at Di Bonaventura Pictures. [1] He joined Chernin Entertainment in 2013, [2] where his producing credits include Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, The Mountain Between Us (2017), Red Sparrow (2018), [3] [4] Tolkien, Netflix's Fear Street trilogy, Slumberland, and Luther: The Fallen Sun. [5] [6] [7] His upcoming credits include future installments of the Fear Street franchise with Netflix, and a biopic about the rock band, Sublime with 3000 Pictures, director, Francis Lawrence, and writer, Chris Mundy. [8] [9]

His earlier credits include Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , Salt , Red and Red 2 , Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit , and Man on a Ledge . [10] [11]

Filmography

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

YearFilmCredit
2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Production executive
Imagine That Production executive
2010 Salt Production executive
Red Co-producer
2012 Man on a Ledge Executive producer
2013 Red 2 Executive producer
2014 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Co-producer
2016 Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates Executive producer
2017 The Mountain Between Us
2018 Red Sparrow
2019 Tolkien
2021 Fear Street Part One: 1994
Fear Street Part Two: 1978
Fear Street Part Three: 1666
2022 Slumberland
2023 Luther: The Fallen Sun

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