James Vanderbilt

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James Vanderbilt
Born
James Platten Vanderbilt

November 17, 1975 (1975-11-17) (age 48)
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • director
  • producer
Spouse
Amber Freeman
(m. 2005)
[1]
Relatives Vanderbilt family

James Platten Vanderbilt (born November 17, 1975) [2] [3] is an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for writing the films Zodiac (2007), [4] The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel, and Independence Day: Resurgence (2016). He also co-wrote and produced Scream (2022) and its 2023 sequel. Vanderbilt also contributed as producer for several films, including The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) and Ready or Not (2019).

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Early life and education

A member of the Vanderbilt family of New York, James Vanderbilt is the son of Alison Campbell (née Platten) and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt III. [5] 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] [6]

Vanderbilt was raised in Norwalk, Connecticut, and attended school at New Canaan Country School. [7] He is a graduate of St. Paul's School and the University of Southern California. [1]

Career

His production company, Mythology Entertainment, started in 2011. [8] It was later reincorporated into Project X Entertainment as of 2019. [9]

In May 2016, Mythology acquired intellectual property rights to Slender Man from the character's creator Eric Knudsen. [10] 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. [11] The film was released on January 14, 2022. [12] [13] Vanderbilt's next project, Nuremberg is about the Nuremberg trials. [14]

Filmography

YearTitleWriterProducerDirectorNotes
2003 Darkness Falls YesNo Jonathan Liebesman
Basic YesYes John McTiernan
The Rundown YesNo Peter Berg
2007 Zodiac YesYes David Fincher
2010 The Losers YesNo Sylvain White
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man YesNo Marc Webb
2013 White House Down YesYes Roland Emmerich
2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 StoryNoMarc Webb
2015 Truth YesYesHimselfDirectorial debut
2016 Independence Day: Resurgence YesNoRoland Emmerich
2018 Slender Man NoYesSylvain White
The House with a Clock in Its Walls NoYes Eli Roth
2019 Murder Mystery YesYes Kyle Newacheck
Ready or Not NoYes Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Tyler Gillett
Cameo, Mr. Le Bail
2022 Scream YesYes
Ambulance NoYes Michael Bay
Bed Rest NoYesLori Evans Taylor
2023 Scream VI YesYesMatt Bettinelli-Olpin
Tyler Gillett
Murder Mystery 2 YesYes Jeremy Garelick
2024 Abigail NoYesMatt Bettinelli-Olpin
Tyler Gillett
TBA Nuremberg YesYesHimself
Fountain of Youth YesExecutive Guy Ritchie Post-production

Executive producer

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