Chris McKay
Birthdate: Nov 11, 1973
Birthplace: Winter Park, Florida, USA
Chris McKay (birthname: Christopher McKay) worked as a writer-director-producer-animator-editor of several animated series, including the long-running Robot Chicken (2005-2011), and also for two decades as a feature film editor, starting in 1995 (except for directing and writing indie movie in 2002 titled 2wks, 1yr). McKay then shifted into writing, producing, and directing in 2017 with the sequel, The Lego Batman Movie, for which McKay directed, with the voice cast of Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, and Ralph Fiennes, and grossing $312 million worldwide.
That same year, McKay was a lead producer on the other, less successful Lego Movie project, The Lego Ninjago Movie, with the voice cast of Dave Franco, Michael Pena, Fred Armisen, Kumail Nanjiani, Jackie Chan, Justin Theroux, and Olivia Munn, and grossing $123 million just under twice production costs of $70 million. (This actually marked McKay’s third Lego project; he was animation co-director, animation supervisor, and lead editor on The Lego Movie (2014), written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.)
Chris McKay’s first feature as director of a live-action movie was The Tomorrow War (2021), starring Chris Pratt, J.K. Simmons, and Edwin Hodge, and earning--in a limited Amazon Studios theatrical release pre-streaming--$19.2 million. McKay’s first writing-only feature credit was as a story writer for the script of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), co-written by Michael Gilio and co-directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley.
McKay was director and a lead producer (with story writer Robert Kirkman, David Alpert, Bryan Furst, and Sean Furst) on the Dracula-themed Renfield (2023), starring Nicolas Cage, Nicholas Hoult, and Awkwafina, released by Universal Pictures as part of the studio’s revived project to remake their classic horror movie library.
Personal Details
Chris McKay was born in Winter Park, Florida, and raised in the Chicago area. McKay developed a fascination for the movies of Alfred Hitchcock and made his first short films on his family’s Super-8 camera. McKay studied film at Southern Illinois University in his freshman and sophomore years and then transferred to Columbia College Chicago, where he earned his B.A.
Awards
Winner, Best Short-Format Animated Program, Emmy Awards (2010); Winner, Best Edited Animated Feature Film, American Cinema Editors Awards (2015).
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Filmography
director
Previous (2)
- 2023 |
- 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie
The Lego Batman Movie
A cooler-than-ever Bruce Wayne must deal with the usual suspects as they plan to rule Gotham City, while discovering that he has accidentally adopted a teenage orphan who wishes to become his sidekick.
writer
Previous (1)
- 2023 | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
actor
Previous (11)
- 2022 | The Lego Batman Movie 2
- 2021 | The Tomorrow WarasDirector(directed by)
The Tomorrow War
A man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront his past.
- 2019 | Reborn
- 2014 | Jonny Quest
- 2014 | The Lego MovieasEditor(edited by)
The Lego Movie
An ordinary LEGO construction worker, thought to be the prophesied as 'special', is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the LEGO universe into eternal stasis.
- 2002 | 2wks, 1yr
- 2001 | Kwik Stop
- 2000 | Nightwing
- 1997 | 35 Miles from Normal
- 1997 | Bullet on a Wire
- 1995 | It's Now... or Never!
Some Facts About Chris McKay
AKA: Chris McKay is also known as Chris Taylor.
