David Leitch

Actor, Producer, Director

Birthdate: November 16, 1975 (50 Years Old)

Former stuntman/stunt coordinator/actor David Leitch transitioned to directing in 2014 with an uncredited co-directing credit on the action hit, John Wick (2014), with Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Bridget Moynihan, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, and Willem Dafoe. It made $86 million worldwide and set up sequels, John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) and Chapter 3--Parabellum (2019), for which Leitch served as executive producer. The success of the John Wick franchise set up Leitch for major directing assignments in his specialized genre, action movies, starting with Atomic Blonde (2017), which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, starring Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Eddie Marsan, and Toby Jones.

Earning an estimated $100 million gross worldwide, the film launched Leitch’s plans for a sequel starring Theron as well as a John Wick-Atomic Blonde crossover film, both of which are in development. David Leitch directed the sequel to the R-rated MCU hit, Deadpool 2 (2018), with Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, and Zazie Beetz, which grossed $785 million worldwide. Leitch jumped to another blockbuster franchise, directing the spinoff Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019), the ninth entry in the Fast & Furious series with Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby, Cliff Curtis, and Helen Mirren, and once again delivered a blockbuster box-office success that earned over $760 million worldwide.

In 2021, Leitch took a break from directing to produce the Bob Odenkirk-starring action comedy, Nobody (2021), with Odenkirk (also producer, with Leitch), Connie Nielsen, RZA, and Christopher Lloyd. Leitch returned to directing, replacing Antoine Fuqua, on Bullet Train (2022), an Americanized adaptation of Japanese author Kotaro Isaka’s novel with the distinctly non-Japanese cast of Brad Pitt (for whom Leitch used to stunt double), Sandra Bullock, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brain Tyree Henry, Zazie Beetz, and Michael Shannon. Japanese or Japanese-ethnic cast members include Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Karen Fukuhara, but the film has been accused of “whitewashing” what was originally a Japanese story, even though it remains set in Japan. Leitch was director/producer of the $125-million feature version of the 1980s-era TV series, The Fall Guy (2024), starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, with Winston Duke, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, and Stephanie Hsu, and which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival before a Universal Pictures release.

Leitch was again director/producer of the comedy heist movie, How to Rob a Bank (2026), written by Mark Bianculli, co-starring Nicholas Hoult, Zoe Kravitz, Anna Sawai, Rhenzy Feliz, Pete Davidson, John C. Reilly, Christian Slater and Tati Gabrielle, produced by MGM, Imagine Entertainment and 87North Productions, and which was distributed in wide release by Amazon MGM Studios (U.S., Canada)/Sony Pictures Releasing International (International). David Leitch continued his run as a director/producer of action comedies with Jason Statham Stole My Bike (2027), written by Alison Flierl (who also co-wrote the story with Scott Chernoff), with Statham as a lead producer and as a star (in a fictional version of himself), topping a cast including Hannah Washington, Eddie Peng and Daniel Ings, produced (in part) and released by Black Bear Pictures.

David Leitch’s work as a producer includes such projects ADD: for his 87North Productions company co-founded with partner Kelly McCormick as Nobody (2021) and its sequel, Nobody 2 (2025), both starring Bob Odenkirk and delivering a cumulative $100 million for Universal Pictures; the Christmas action comedy, Violent Night (2022) and its sequel, Violent Night 2 (2026), both directed by Tommy Wirkola and starring David Harbour as a tough-guy Santa Claus; the action comedy, Love Hurts (2025), co-starring Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose; Over Your Dead Body (2026), co-starring Jason Segel and Samara Weaving; director/producer Chad Stahelski’s remake of Highlander (date to be announced) for Amazon MGM Studios, starring Russell Crowe and Henry Cavill; and the Will Smith-starring crime thriller, Fast and Loose (date to be announced) with producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

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David Leitch was born in Kohler, Wisconsin, and raised by his parents, Bryon and Zona Leitch. Leitch graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in International Relations and Education. After graduation, he opened a martial arts school. He is married to film producer Kelly McCormick. Leitch’s height is 5’ 11”.

Known For

Bullet Train

(2022)

John Wick

(2014)

Atomic Blonde

(2017)

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

(2019)

David Leitch Movies

Director

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2026 |
How to Rob a Bank
How to Rob a Bank
2026
Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Bank robbers are posting their heists on social media, causing police to chase them.
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2024 |
The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy
2024
Action, Comedy, Drama
A stuntman, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job. What could possibly go right?
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2022 |
Bullet Train
Bullet Train
2022
Action, Comedy, Thriller
Five assassins aboard a swiftly-moving bullet train find out that their missions have something in common.
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2019 |
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
2019
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Lawman Luke Hobbs and outcast Deckard Shaw form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-genetically enhanced villain threatens the future of humanity.
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2018 |
Deadpool 2
Deadpool 2
2018
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (a.k.a. Deadpool) assembles a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with abilities from the brutal, time-traveling cyborg Cable.
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2017 |
Atomic Blonde
Atomic Blonde
2017
Action, Thriller
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
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2025 |
Nobody 2
Nobody 2
2025
Action, Comedy, Crime
Suburban dad Hutch Mansell, a former lethal assassin, is pulled back into his violent past after thwarting a home invasion, setting off a chain of events that unravels secrets about his wife Becca's past and his own.
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2025 |
Love Hurts
Love Hurts
2025
Action, Comedy
A realtor is pulled back into the life he left behind after his former partner-in-crime resurfaces with an ominous message. With his crime-lord brother also on his trail, he must confront his past and the history he never fully buried.
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2024 |
The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy
2024
Action, Comedy, Drama
A stuntman, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job. What could possibly go right?
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2022 |
Violent Night
Violent Night
2022
Action, Comedy, Thriller
When an elite team of mercenaries breaks into a family compound on Christmas Eve, a disgruntled Santa Claus must take them out to save both the hostages and his Holiday.
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2022 |
Bullet Train
Bullet Train
2022
Action, Comedy, Thriller
Five assassins aboard a swiftly-moving bullet train find out that their missions have something in common.
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2021 |
Nobody
Nobody
2021
Action, Crime, Drama
A docile family man slowly reveals his true character after his house gets burgled by two petty thieves, which, coincidentally, leads him into a bloody war with a Russian crime boss.
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2014 |
John Wick
John Wick
2014
Action, Crime, Thriller
John Wick is a former hitman grieving the loss of his true love. When his home is broken into, robbed, and his dog killed, he is forced to return to action to exact revenge.
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2013 |
Escape Plan
Escape Plan
2013
Action, Thriller
When a structural-security authority finds himself set up and incarcerated in the world's most secret and secure prison, he has to use his skills to escape with help from the inside.
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2005 |
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
Comedy
Cousins Bo, Luke, and Daisy Duke, and their uncle Jesse, egg on the authorities of Hazzard County, Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane.
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