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VANDERBILT
James
American screenwriter and producer
Date of Birth 17 November 1975
Age 50 years old
In the rating #1 Screenwriter
Connections 8 + 1
Biography
James Platten Vanderbilt is an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for writing the films Zodiac (2007), 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).
Career
His production company, Mythology Entertainment, started in 2011. It was later reincorporated into Project X Entertainment as of 2019.
In May 2016, Mythology acquired intellectual property rights to Slender Man from the character's creator Eric Knudsen. 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. The film was released on January 14, 2022. Vanderbilt's next project, Nuremberg is about the Nuremberg trials.
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