Jake Schreier
Birthdate: Sep 29, 1981
Birthplace: Berkeley, California
Jake Schreier (birthname: Jacob Stacey Schreier) is a director of feature films, commercials and music videos, and launched his feature career with his acclaimed debut, the sci-fi comedy-drama Robot & Frank (2012), starring Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, Peter Sarsgaard, James Marsden and Liv Tyler, earning a $5 million gross for Samuel Goldwyn Films after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for best film with scientific themes.
Schreier’s sophomore directorial feature was the adaptation of best-selling author John Green’s 2008 novel, Paper Towns (2015), starring Cara Delevingne, Nat Wolff, Halston Sage, and Justice Smith, earning distributor 20th Century Fox a very strong $85.5 million return and winning three Teen Choice Awards.
Schreier was a busy director/producer in television and music videos for the following decade (including the award-winning Netflix black comedy limited series, Beef (2023)), and then returned to feature filmmaking with a plum assignment with Marvel Studios to direct the potential launch of a new MCU sub-franchise with Thunderbolts* (2025), co-starring Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, David Harbour and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and released by Disney.
Personal life
Jake Schreier was born and raised in Berkeley, California, by his parents. Schreier studied filmmaking at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, from which he graduated. Schreier’s height is 5’ 8½”.
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- 2025 |
Thunderbolts*
After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes must go on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.
- 2015 |
Paper Towns
After an all-night adventure, Quentin's lifelong crush, Margo, disappears, leaving behind clues that Quentin and his friends follow on the journey of a lifetime.
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Musician: Jake Schreier was keyboardist for the indie band Francis and the Lights.
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