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(As a new threat to the galaxy rises, Rey, a desert scaven...)
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(Nothing can prepare you for the mind-blowing mayhem that ...)
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(A story about a wide eyed college freshman and the most e...)
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Jeffrey Jacob Abrams, better known to his fans as J.J. Abrams, is an American film and television producer, director, actor, and screenwriter. He specializes in the science fiction and action genres and is most famous for his work in films like "Star Trek," and "Mission Impossible III," and television shows like "Alias" and "Felicity."
Background
J. J. Abrams stands for Jeffrey Jacob was born on June 27, 1966, in New York City. Abrams got into the family business. He is the son of television producer Gerald W. Abrams and executive producer Carol Abrams. His sister is screenwriter Tracy Rosen.
The family relocated to Los Angeles when Abrams was five. As a child, Abrams developed an interest in magic, an early springboard to his later fascination with special effects. A favorite outing was accompanying his grandfather to magic stores to buy tricks. Early on, Abrams was also curious about movies and was intrigued that directors, like magicians, could make things and people disappear.
The parents did not impose their opinion and gave their beloved child a free hand. Jeffrey could have different hobbies, including drawing, composing music, developing acting skills, and his mother and father have always accepted their son's choice. Despite such permissiveness, it is hard to imagine that the child of such creatively gifted parents was more interested in mathematical sciences.
Got his first taste of show business when, at age 8, he toured Universal Studios with his grandfather. Also at 8, Abrams received a super 8mm camera and began making amateur films.
By nine, Abrams was writing his own scripts and using the family's Super-8 camera to bring them to life. Met Matt Reeves, his collaborator on Felicity, at a student film festival when he was 13. Intrigued with the use of special effects, Abrams wrote special-effects experts to inquire about the craft. He even wrote the man who created the exceptionally graphic tongue for the 1973 thriller The Exorcist and the man sent Abrams one of the tongue extensions.
Education
J. J. Abrams attended Palisades High School in Los Angeles, California, United States.
It is also known that Abrams graduated from one of the most expensive colleges in New York City. Sarah Lawrence College is famous for its high academic standards and low student-to-faculty ratio. Few people know that Abrams's first movie experience was writing music for Don Dohler's horror movie Nightbeast (1982). At the time of the release of the film, Jeffrey was only 16 years old.
As a senior student, Abrams teamed with Jill Mazursky to create a script that later was purchased by the film distribution label of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, and became the basis for the comedy Taking Care of Business (1990). After that, the films Regarding Henry and Forever Young, starring Mel Gibson, were released.
Abrams got his first job in the film industry at age 16, when he scored the low-budget science-fiction film Nightbeast (1982). Soon after graduating (1988) from Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, he co-wrote (with Jill Mazursky) the screenplay for the comedy Taking Care of Business (1990). While the movie was not a success, Abrams nevertheless had his foot in the filmmaking door, and he penned the script for the 1991 drama Regarding Henry (for which he also received co-producer credit). He then wrote Forever Young (1992), which he followed by cowriting two critically panned movies: Gone Fishin’ (1997) and Armageddon (1998).
In 1998 Abrams turned to television and co-created the series Felicity (1998-2002), which followed the trials and tribulations of a college student in New York City. Even though it lasted only 4 seasons, Felicity was a hit, and Abrams’s newfound clout allowed him to get the go-ahead for another series creation: Alias (2001-2006), a fast-paced modern spy drama. The well-reviewed program was a testament to creator - executive producer (and even theme-song composer) Abrams’s drive, but he was frustrated by the series’ frequent time-slot moves, which he believed contributed to its relatively poor ratings and eventual cancellation.
Abrams’s next venture proved to be the project that catapulted him to stardom: Lost, the story of a group of plane-crash survivors marooned on a mysterious island, which premiered in September 2004. The show’s byzantine plots and unique supernatural mythology quickly drew fans in - it averaged more than 15 million viewers per week in its first two seasons - and made it arguably the single most-discussed television show of its time. Abrams was then chosen by actor Tom Cruise to direct Mission: Impossible III (2006). Although the film was not as large a box-office hit as the franchise’s first two installments, many reviewers praised Abrams’s direction.
In 2009 Abrams directed the film Star Trek, which explored the early years of the crew members of the 23rd-century starship USS Enterprise from the 1960s science-fiction TV series of the same name. The then 42-year-old director was credited with adding youthful energy to a film franchise that many thoughts had run its course, and the movie became one of the biggest box-office hits of the year. He returned to helm the sequel Star Trek into Darkness (2013).
Abrams also wrote and directed the supernatural thriller Super 8 (2011). The film was set in a small town in the late 1970s and was inspired by his own early filmmaking experiences. As well, it was seen as an homage to the work of Steven Spielberg, who served as a producer. Even as Abrams’s film career took off, he continued to work in television, co-creating the sci-fi-oriented Fringe (2008-2013) and the spy drama Undercovers (2010) and producing several other high-concept series.
He took on another iconic sci-fi franchise with the film Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), which he co-wrote and directed. Set several decades after the 1983 Star Wars film Return of the Jedi, it was billed as the seventh episode in the series and featured both new and old characters. While he stated that he did not want to direct any more of the films, Abrams stayed on with the Star Wars franchise to serve as a creative consultant for future movies in the series. However, he subsequently decided to helm Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), the ninth and final episode in the series; Abrams also co-wrote the film.
Abrams conceptualized the novel S. (2013), written by Doug Dorst. It consisted of a frame story about two scholars told in the marginalia of another novel, the author of which they are investigating.
An inventive screenwriter and television producer who transformed himself into one of Hollywood's biggest feature directors, J.J. Abrams created some of television's most-watched shows while simultaneously making huge blockbuster movies.
In 2005, Fade In magazine added him to their list of "100 People in Hollywood You Need to Know."
In 2007, Entertainment Weekly magazine ranked J.J. Abrams at the 29th spot of "The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood" list.
Jeffrey Jacob Abrams is Jewish, and sometimes he takes his children to the Jewish holidays.
Politics
J. J. Abrams has an active interest in politics and has contributed to the campaigns of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Harry Reid, etc.
He is associated with a nonpartisan anti-corruption organization called the Creative Council of Represent.Us.
Views
A distinctive feature of the style of the eminent director, J. J. Abrams is the intensity of emotions from the very beginning of the movie. An opening scene that establishes the atmosphere for further narration plays a key role in all his films. Viewers get into the thick of things, and the director draws their attention to what is happening on the screen.
The director achieves the plot dynamics using film transitions, editing the contrast between sound and image. While using traditional editing techniques, Abrams likes to violate the classic three-act structure (pre-climax, climax, denouement), dividing it into stages. If other directors who neglect the rules doom the work to failure, then the creator of the series Lost can afford such deviations.
Quotations:
"The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion."
"When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and theoretical can become literal."
"When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way."
"You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it."
"I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous."
"Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like."
"People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised."
"All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made."
"The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of."
"I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think."
"I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable."
"I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality."
"My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know."
Membership
Abrams is the founder of Katie McGrath & J. J. Abrams Family Foundation along with his wife. Through the foundation, they have contributed to the services in various areas like education and youth, arts, health, human services, equity and policy, global development, and communities in Los Angeles.
Katie McGrath & J.J. Abrams Family Foundation
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United States
Personality
Jeffrey Jacob Abrams did not elect to call himself J.J., but, rather, was given the nickname by his parents at birth. Briefly, upon first becoming a produced screenwriter, he decided to go by the name - publicly, at least - of Jeffrey Abrams. He gave up on being Jeffrey, however, when he realized that it was "just simply not my name," and, further, that his choice to be called Jeffrey was indicative of a heady, unattractive state he describes as "being an ass."
His films and TV shows often include a subtle visual or verbal reference to a fictional frozen beverage of his own invention called Slusho. In his mind, a Slusho "hits that way-too-sweet button" and "tastes like blue."
His hair naturally puffs into a "big, fuzzy ball," but he tames it into an attractive, Zeppo Marx-like mass of waves with a paste from the Joe Grooming line of men’s products.
His daily uniform is a T-shirt, a pair of jeans, and Blundstone boots. He owns precisely one item of bespoke clothing: a tuxedo shirt.
His wife, Katie McGrath, is merely half an inch taller than he is, Abrams insists. However, he appears much shorter than she is in red-carpet photographs, which he attributes to her wearing what he calls her "mean shoes."
He lists Rod Serling and Steven Spielberg as his heroes.
Will sometimes go out of his way to add lens flares in his shots, often having people stand off-camera pointing lights at it. He is also very secretive about the plotlines of his projects.
Abrams is a huge fan of The Twilight Zone (1959), with his favorite episode being The Twilight Zone: Walking Distance (1959).
He often incorporates the number 47 into the story/plot. J.J. Abrams likes using the name Kelvin in his movies, which was his grandfather’s name, like Kelvin Inman in Lost, the USS Kelvin in Star Trek (2009), and Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013), to name a few.
Movies that he has seen the most are Jaws (1975) and The Philadelphia Story (1940).
He does not use escalators at airports.
One gadget that he can’t live without is his Mac laptop.
His prized possession is a mystery box from Tannen’s Magic in New York.
One historical figure that he’d like to meet is Aristotle.
Physical Characteristics:
J.J. Abrams' height is 5 ft 7 in or 170 cm, and his weight is 68 kg or 150 lbs. He has thick curly black hair and green eyes. He also wears thick-rimmed glasses.
Interests
video games, comic books
Philosophers & Thinkers
Aristotle
Politicians
Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Harry Reid, Barack Obama
Writers
Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, Graham Greene, Colum McCann, Stephen King
Music & Bands
Michael Giacchino
Connections
Jeffrey has been married for many years. The producer's wife, Katie McGrath, has nothing to do with the film industry and is not a public figure. The wife of the visual effects master is the head of a public relations company. The woman has always been understanding about the fact that her husband has not appeared at home for days, plunging headlong into work on the set.
Katie trusts her husband, and therefore, news that has been published in tabloids about Abrams's love affairs with this or that actress only make the woman laugh. The wife of the filmmaker gave birth to two sons, August and Henry, as well as daughter Gracie. Three children do not affect the social activity of the couple. Katie and Jeffrey go to presentations, attend film shows, and participate in charity events.
Father:
Gerald W. Abrams
Mother:
Carol Abrams
Carol was an accomplished knitter, pianist and painter and was a contributing artist for The Santa Barbara Art Museum. She spoke three languages.
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Award,
United States
2005 - Top Television Series for "Lost"
2006 - Top Television Series for "Lost"
2013 - Top Television Series for "Alcatraz" (2013) shared with Michael Giacchino; Top Television Series for "Person of Interest" (2011) shared with Ramin Djawadi.
2005 - Top Television Series for "Lost"
2006 - Top Television Series for "Lost"
2013 - Top Television Series for "Alcatraz" (2013) shared with Michael Giacchino; Top Television Series for "Person of Interest" (2011) shared with Ramin Djawadi.
