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Rian Johnson
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Rian Craig Johnson (born December 17, 1973) is an American filmmaker. He made his directorial debut with the neo-noir mystery film Brick (2005), which received positive reviews an…
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Rian Craig Johnson (born December 17, 1973) is an American filmmaker. He made his directorial debut with the neo-noir mystery film Brick (2005), which received positive reviews and grossed nearly $4 million on a $450,000 budget. Transitioning to higher-profile films, Johnson achieved mainstream recognition for writing and directing the science-fiction thriller Looper (2012) to critical and commercial success. Johnson landed his largest project when he wrote and directed the space opera Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), which grossed over $1 billion. He returned to the mystery genre with Knives Out (2019) and its sequel Glass Onion (2022), both of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, respectively. Additionally, Johnson is also known for directing three highly acclaimed episodes for the television series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), namely "Ozymandias," "Fly," and "Fifty-One"; for the latter, he received the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing—Drama Series in 2013. He also created a murder mystery series titled Poker Face for Peacock with Natasha Lyonne. Johnson was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rian Johnson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2027
A Place in Hell
Movie Producer
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2026
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Movie Executive Producer
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2026
The Hawk
TV show Executive Producer
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2025
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Movie Director
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2025
Frankenstein
Movie Thanks
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2025
Netflix Tudum 2025
Movie Self
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2024
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
Movie Self
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2024
3 Body Problem
TV show Executive Producer
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2023
American Fiction
Movie Executive Producer
- 2023
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2023
Fair Play
Movie Executive Producer
- 2023
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2023
Poker Face
TV show Executive Producer
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2022
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Movie Director
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2022
Blood Relatives
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2022
Metal Lords
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2022
Scream
Movie Party Guest (voice) (uncredited)
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2021
tick, tick... BOOM!
Movie Thanks
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2021
Last Night in Soho
Movie Thanks
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2021
Directors on Directors
TV show Self
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2020
Capone
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2019
Knives Out
Movie Director
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2019
Scare Package
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2018
Destroyer
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- 2018
- 2018
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2018
The Director and the Jedi
Movie Self
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2018
Balance of the Force
Movie Self
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2018
The Force of Sound
Movie Self
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2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Movie Writer
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2017
Baby Driver
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2016
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Movie Imperial Technician (uncredited)
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2016
The Hollars
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2016
The Invitation
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2015
Tales of Halloween
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2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
Out of Print
Movie Self
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2014
BoJack Horseman
TV show Brian (voice)
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2014
The Real History of Science Fiction
TV show Self
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2014
Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk
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