Jake Kasdan is an American film director. He is the helmer of “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” and its sequel!
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about his life and career!
- His full name is Jacob “Jake” Kasdan
- He was born on October 28, 1974
- He is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
- Kasdan was born and raised in a secular Jewish family in Detroit, Michigan
- He is the son of Meg
- She is a writer
- And writer-director Lawrence Kasdan
- He has a younger brother, Jon Kasdan
- He also works in the film and television industry as an actor and writer
- Kasdan has directed seven theatrical films
- These are Zero Effect (1998), Orange County (2002), The TV Set (2006), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), Bad Teacher (2011), Sex Tape (2014) and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
- He has also worked in television
- Most notably with Judd Apatow
- He was a consulting producer and director on Freaks and Geeks
- And as a director on Undeclared
- He has also directed numerous stage productions
- He is attached to direct John Grisham novel Calico Joe to a family film adaptation
- In 2006, Kasdan received his first Golden Globe nomination for Walk Hard in the Best Original Song category
- The Golden Globe was shared with John C. Reilly, Judd Apatow, and Marshall Crenshaw
- But lost to “Guaranteed” from Into the Wild
- As a child, he made several appearances in his father’s movies such as The Big Chill and Silverado
- In the former he is an autograph seeker at a funeral and in the latter a stable boy
- In February 2015, Fox announced it had greenlit a pilot for the comedy The Grinder
- It is to be directed by Kasdan and starring Rob Lowe
- Kasdan is married to singer-songwriter Inara George of The Bird and the Bee
- They have three children
- They are Otis, and twins Beau and Lorelei
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