Simon Kinberg | |
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Born | Simon David Kinberg August 2, 1973 Hammersmith, London, England, UK |
Nationality | American |
Education | Brown University (BA) Columbia University (MFA) |
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Years active | 2000–present |
Spouse | Mali Heled (m. 2001;div. 2017) |
Partner | Cleo Wade (engaged) |
Children | 4 |
Simon David Kinberg [1] (born August 2, 1973) [2] is an American filmmaker. He wrote or produced a number of films in the 20th Century Fox X-Men film franchise, and has also written such films as Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Sherlock Holmes . He has served as a producer on others, including Cinderella and The Martian , the latter of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. His production company Genre Films had a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox. Kinberg made his directorial debut in the 2019 X-Men film Dark Phoenix from a script he also wrote.
Kinberg was born in Hammersmith, London, England to American parents Monica Menell-Kinberg and Jud Kinberg, a New York City-born writer and producer. [3] From age six, he was raised in Los Angeles, California. [4] He is Jewish. [5] [6] Kinberg graduated from Brentwood High School, [2] and then from Brown University, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude; in 2003 he received his MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, where he won the Zaki Gordon Fellowship for Screenwriting. [7]
While still in film school, Kinberg sold a pitch to Warner Brothers, then went on to write scripts for Disney, Sony, and DreamWorks, working with Steven Spielberg and Jerry Bruckheimer, among others. After finishing school, Kinberg moved to Hollywood, where his first screenwriting credit was a sequel to the hit action film XXX (2002), XXX: State of the Union (2005). His next screenwriting venture was the screenplay for Mr. & Mrs. Smith , directed by Doug Liman and starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The script began as Kinberg's thesis project for film school. Kinberg also wrote the pilot episode for a television adaptation of Mr. & Mrs. Smith for ABC TV. He also appears in the movie, in a scene with Brad Pitt.[ citation needed ]
Kinberg's next screenwriting job was the third movie in the 20th Century Fox X-Men film series: X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), which he co-wrote with Zak Penn. Comic-book writer Chris Claremont, who wrote the Dark Phoenix storyline that served as the primary source material for the film, also wrote the novelization of the film and made Kinberg a character in the book.[ citation needed ]
Kinberg reunited with director Doug Liman for the film Jumper (2008). Kinberg wrote and produced the movie, which stars Samuel L. Jackson, Hayden Christensen, and Diane Lane. The following year, Kinberg was writer of Sherlock Holmes , directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. In April 2010, his production company, Genre Films, signed a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox. [8]
Kinberg was the producer of X-Men: First Class (2011), and both writer and producer of This Means War (2012). He was also co-screenwriter and an executive producer of the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in that same year. In 2013, Kinberg produced Elysium .
The following year, Kinberg was the writer and the producer of the film X-Men: Days of Future Past . That same year, he produced Let's Be Cops . In 2015, Kinberg produced the Neill Blomkamp film Chappie and the live-action version of Cinderella at Disney. He also worked on Fantastic Four as writer and producer. His final film of the year was The Martian , directed by Ridley Scott.
He wrote and produced X-Men: Apocalypse , the next film in the X-Men franchise following X-Men: Days of Future Past . Kinberg produced 2016's Deadpool , 2017's Logan , 2018's Deadpool 2 , 2019's Dark Phoenix (the latter of which also served as his directorial debut) and The New Mutants , all of which are X-Men spin-off films. He also produced Murder on the Orient Express , an adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel of the same name.
The Hollywood Reporter initially reported that Lawrence Kasdan, writer of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi , and Kinberg would write and produce Episodes VIII and IX of the new Star Wars films. [9] A week later the publication stated that Kasdan and Kinberg would be working on future Star Wars projects, but not necessarily on Episodes VIII and IX. [10]
In television, he is an executive producer on ABC network's Designated Survivor starring Kiefer Sutherland, Legion created by Noah Hawley for FX, and The Gifted on Fox. He executive produced the third revival of the science fiction anthology series, The Twilight Zone which premiered in 2019.
In July 2019, it was announced that Kinberg and his production company Genre Films is leaving Fox after 20 years. [11]
Kinberg married Mali Heled in a Jewish ceremony on July 26, 2001. [1] They have two sons. [4] The couple separated in 2014 and were divorced in early 2017. [12] By November 4, 2019, Kinberg became engaged to writer Cleo Wade. [13] They have a daughter, born in 2020 and a second daughter in 2021. [14]
Executive producer
Other credits
Year | Title | Role |
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2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Creative consultant 'Thanks' credit [15] |
2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | 'Thanks' credit |
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Executive producer | Creator | Notes |
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2014–2018 | Star Wars Rebels | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2016–2019 | Designated Survivor | No | No | Yes | No | |
2017–2019 | The Gifted | No | No | Yes | No | Part of the X-Men film franchise |
Legion | No | No | Yes | No | ||
2019–2020 | The Twilight Zone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Developer | Directed "Blurryman" and wrote "Nightmare at 30,000 Feet" |
2021 | Invasion | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2024 | Sugar | No | No | Yes | No |
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He received a lifetime achievement award from the Saturn Awards in 2016.
He was named #61 on the list of 100 most powerful people in Hollywood by The Hollywood Reporter in 2016. The same year, The Hollywood Reporter named Kinberg as the highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood with a record US$16 million for two X-Men scripts, and named him as one of the highest-paid producers in Hollywood with US$40 million for Deadpool in their annual Hollywood Salaries issue.
Year | Title | Award | Category | Result |
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2015 | Golden Globe Awards | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | The Martian | Won |
Academy Awards | Best Picture | Nominated | ||
Producers Guild of America Awards | Best Picture | Nominated | ||
National Board of Review | Best Film | Nominated | ||
Critics' Choice Movie Awards | Best Film | Nominated | ||
2016 | Best Comedy | Deadpool | Won | |
Golden Globe Awards | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominated | ||
Producers Guild of America Award | Best Picture | Nominated | ||
2019 | Golden Raspberry Award | Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel | Dark Phoenix | Nominated |
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