Biography of j. j. Abrams

Inventions, dreams and fantasies

June 27, 1966
Jeffrey Jacob Abrams was born on 27 June 1966 in New York City, the son of Executive Producer Carol Ann and of television producer Gerald w. Abrams. Raised in Los Angeles, he attended Palisades High School, and already at the age of sixteen he wrote the soundtrack for the film by Don Dohler "Nightbeast".
Later, she enrolled at Sarah Lawrence College: in the last year together with his friend Jill Mazursky writes a film treatment that is purchased by Touchstone Pictures and that later became the basis for "Taking care of business" (in Italy: "Filofax-an agenda that is a treasure"), the first film produced by JJ that will see in starring James Belushi and Charles Grodin.

Notable early work

Shortly after, j. j. Abrams writes the screenplay for "Regarding Henry" (in Italy: "regarding Henry"), starring Harrison Ford, which also has a small part as an actor, and "Forever young" (in Italy: "love forever") with Mel Gibson.
After having starred in "Six degrees of separation" (in Italy: "6 degrees of separation") and "Diabolique", always with Mazursky wrote the screenplay of comedy "Gone Fishin'" (in Italy: "who is fishing"), with Danny Glover and Joe Pesci. In 1998 he collaborated with Director Michael Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer to create "Armageddon" (in Italy: "Armageddon", starring Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler).
Meanwhile, he began working in television, creating in collaboration with Matt Reeves on tv show "Felicity", which is also a producer, broadcast by The WB network for four years. After having acted in "The Suburbans" in 1999 (his last experience as an actor), through the production company he created, Bad Robot, JJ is also the father of the series "Alias", on the air since 2001 on Abc for five seasons, and "Joy Ride" (in Italy: "Radio Killer").

The years 2000 and the worldwide success of Lost

For Abc, also, Abrams is the Executive producer of "Six degrees" and "What about Brian" (in Italy: "what about Brian"). The success, however, comes only in 2004: in that year, on Abc airs the first episode of "Lost," which j. j. Abrams 's co-founder, Director and screenwriter. The show turns out soon a cult hit worldwide, also because of the intrigues and mysteries that distinguish it.
In 2006, Abrams writes the screenplay for the film "Mission: Impossible III," which is also her debut as a Director, starring Tom Cruise, while two years later, together with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, is one of the authors of the show "Fringe" series that airs on Fox and for which he also wrote the soundtrack.
Also in 2008, it reported that Abrams has acquired the rights to an article in the New York Times, entitled "Mystery on Fifth Avenue" ("Mystery on Fifth Avenue"), for the renewal of a cooperative (more than eight million dollars) originally owned by Marjorie Merriweather Post and E.F. Hutton: the American manufacturer at that time works to create, with the Bad Robot and Paramount Pictures , a movie called-in fact-"Mystery on Fifth Avenue," with Maya Forber and Wally Wolodarsky committed to achieving the film adaptation.
Later, with the Bad Robot j. j. Abrams produces "Earthquake" for Universal Pictures, the film written by Dustin Lance Black, winner of an Academy Award. In 2009 participates at the Mtv Movie Awards with "Cool guys don't look at explosions", short film with digital atmosphere Eighties starring Will Ferrell and Andy Samberg, in which he plays a solo on keyboards.

The years 2010

In 2010 the airs final season of "Lost", with an ending that-to be honest-it leaves a lot of disappointed fans. Meanwhile, Abrams is the producer of the show "Undercovers" (drama series that should characterize the 2010/11 season on Nbc, but that is cancelled by the network in November of 2010) and the movie "Morning Glory" (in Italy: "a good day in the morning").
He also wrote and directed in 2011 "Super 8", supernatural film from Paramount that takes advantage of co-production of Bryan Burk and Steven Spielberg; In addition, writes the subject and the screenplay of the film "Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol" (in Italy: "Mission: Impossible – ghost Protocol"), which is also a producer.
Always in production in 2012 is committed for the tv series "Alcatraz" and for the pilot episode of the show's "Revolution". The following year, however, produces "Star Trek Into Darkness", which is also the Director. In the same year, it was announced that Abrams-on choice of Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm--will be the Director of "Star Wars: Episode VII", together with Lawrence Kasdan: the film should come out in cinemas in December 2015.
In 2013, Additionally, j. j. Abrams publishes a novel, "s.", written by Doug Dorst, and says that Bad Robot has reached an agreement with Valve Corporation to produce films based on video games "Portal" and "half-life".

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