Akiva Goldsman | |
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Born | New York City, New York, U.S. | July 7, 1962
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Years active | 1994–present |
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Children | 2 |
Awards | Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
Akiva Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American filmmaker. He is known for making motion pictures and adaptations of popular novels. [1]
Goldsman's filmography as a screenwriter includes The Client ; Batman Forever and its sequel Batman & Robin ; I, Robot ; I Am Legend ; Cinderella Man , and numerous rewrites that are both credited and uncredited. He also wrote more than a dozen episodes for the science fiction television series Fringe .
In 2002, Goldsman received the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind , which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2006, Goldsman re-teamed with A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard to adapt Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code for Howard's film. He also wrote the screenplay for its 2009 sequel Angels & Demons .
Goldsman is also known for co-developing the DC Comics TV series Titans and the Paramount Plus series Star Trek: Picard , a sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Nemesis . He is also the co-creator of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series .
Goldsman was born in New York City to Jewish parents and raised in Brooklyn Heights. His parents, Tev Goldsman and Mira Rothenberg, were both clinical child psychologists who ran a group home for emotionally disturbed children. [2] He graduated from Saint Ann's School, also in Brooklyn Heights, where he says he made many friends with whom he later worked in the entertainment industry. He received his bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and attended the graduate fiction-writing program at New York University.
Goldsman has a production company at Warner Bros. named Weed Road Pictures. [3]
He produced the Universal Pictures feature Lone Survivor , from writer/director Peter Berg, based on the book Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell. It tells the story of Luttrell's Navy SEAL team in 2005 Afghanistan, on a mission to kill a terrorist leader. It starred Mark Wahlberg, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster and Taylor Kitsch, and was released in 2013. [4]
Goldsman made his feature film directing debut with Winter's Tale , a film adaptation of the Mark Helprin novel, starting Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, Will Smith and William Hurt. [5] It was released on February 14, 2014. He also directed the horror thriller film Stephanie (2017) [6] with Frank Grillo in the leading role. [7] He co-wrote and produced the film adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, released on August 4, 2017, which was one of Goldsman's post-Apotheosis films. [8]
In June 2015, Paramount Pictures announced that Goldsman would head a team of writers and filmmakers to create a multifilm cinematic universe branching out from Hasbro's Transformers franchise. In 2017, his Weed Road company was signed with Paramount. [9]
Goldsman was revealed in September 2018 to have been on the writing staff for Star Trek: Picard , a series focusing on the later years of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. [10] In 2020, he was signed as creator and co-showrunner of the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds .
In 2008, Goldsman joined the first season crew of the Fox horror/mystery series Fringe as writer, director, and consulting producer. The first episode Goldsman directed and wrote was "Bad Dreams". [11] [12] In its fifth season, Goldsman remained a consulting producer. Episodes he contributed to included:
Goldsman's first wife, film producer Rebecca Spikings-Goldsman, died of a heart attack on July 6, 2010, at the age of 42. [13] Rebecca was the daughter of producer Barry Spikings.
In 2012, Akiva met his second wife, Joann Richter. Married in 2014, they now have two daughters. The family divides its time between Los Angeles and New York. [14]
Company type | Independent Company |
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Industry | Motion Pictures |
Founded | 2004 |
Founder | Akiva Goldsman |
Headquarters | United States |
Products | Films |
Owner | Akiva Goldsman |
In 2004, Goldsman founded Weed Road Pictures as an independent production company to produce, develop and finance films and other forms of entertainment properties. Weed Road has financed or cofinanced 13 films. Weed Road recently wrapped production on Firestarter , directed by Keith Thomas and starring Zac Efron, Sydney Lemmon, and Kurtwood Smith. Previous Weed Road releases include Sony's The Dark Tower and Warner Bros. Winter's Tale .[ citation needed ]
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Release Date | Title | Distributor | Notes | Production Status | Ref. |
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TBA | Monument Valley | Paramount Pictures | co-production with Ustwo | In development | [16] |
Rainbow Six | co-production with Outlier Society and 87North Productions | [17] |
Year | Title | Director | Executive Producer | Writer | Notes |
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2008-2013 | Fringe | Yes | Yes | Yes | 1 episode (director); 18 episodes (writer); 2 episodes (executive producer) |
2017 | Star Trek: Discovery | Yes | Yes | Yes | 3 episodes (writer); 2 episodes (director) |
2018–2019 | Titans | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 episodes (writer); 2 episodes (director) |
2018–2020 | Star Trek: Short Treks | No | Yes | No | |
2020–2022 | Star Trek: Picard | Yes | Yes | Yes | 5 episodes (writer); 2 episodes (director) |
2022 [18] | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Yes | Yes | Yes | 1 episode (writer); 1 episode (director) |
2023 | The Crowded Room | No | Yes | Yes | Creator |
Year | Title | Role |
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2008 | Hancock | Executive |
2009 | Star Trek | Vulcan Council Member |
2013 | Star Trek Into Darkness | Starfleet Admiral |
In 2016, it was announced that Goldsman would script an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel. [19] Its final release date is still unknown. In July 2017, Paramount Pictures announced plans to make a film adaptation of the novel Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy with Goldsman as producer. [20]
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