Erik Jendresen
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Erik Jendresen | |
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Born | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. | December 22, 1959
Occupation | Author, playwright, screenwriter and producer |
Nationality | American |
Notable works |
Erik Jendresen (born December 22, 1959) is an American author, playwright, screenwriter and producer of plays, television, and film.
Career
As co-creator, lead writer and a supervising producer of the critically acclaimed mini-series
As a writer/ producer for film, his current projects include The Mariner (directed by Christopher McQuarrie for FOX); Mission: Blacklist (directed by Rodrigo Cortés); Saint-Ex (directed by Christopher McQuarrie); Aloft (starring Robert Redford); Solo (directed by Antonio Banderas); and an adaptation of Walter Tevis's The Man Who Fell to Earth (directed by David Slade). Earlier film projects include Star Trek: The Beginning (Paramount), Sublime, starring Tom Cavanagh and Kathleen York, Otis and The Big Bang (starring Antonio Banderas and Sam Elliott), and Ithaca - an adaptation of William Saroyan's The Human Comedy (directed by Meg Ryan and starring Sam Shepard and Hamish Linklater).
As a writer, producer, and showrunner for television, his current projects include Special, a series based on documentary filmmakers of the 1960s (with
Jendresen also has authored several books, several dealing with the socio-anthropology of
Jendresen is currently co-writing Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and an eighth Mission: Impossible film with director Christopher McQuarrie. McQuarrie and Jendresen are also working on an as-yet untitled film with Tom Cruise, which McQuarrie described as being "gnarlier" than the Mission: Impossible films and as "something we've talked about for a really long time. It's way outside of what you're used to seeing Tom do.".[2]
He is also a playwright (The Killing of Michael Malloy, Excuse My Dust, Malice Aforethought).
Personal life
Jendresen lives in Sausalito, California, aboard the M.V. Hindeloopen, 112-year-old riveted wrought iron vessel which saw service during the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940. He is married to Venus Madora Aslee Bobis, Program Director of the Partial Hospitalization Program at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute of the University of California, San Francisco, and his partner in Pilothouse Pictures.
He is an advisor at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
Filmography
Year | Title | Writer | Producer |
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2002 | Crazy as Hell | Yes | No |
2011 | The Big Bang | Yes | Yes |
2015 | Ithaca | Yes | Yes |
2023 | Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | Yes | No |
2024 | Untitled eighth Mission: Impossible film | Yes | No |
Direct-to-video
Year | Title | Writer | Co-Producer |
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2007 | Sublime | Yes | Yes |
2008 | Otis | Yes | No |
TV movies
Year | Title | Writer | Executive producer |
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2000 | Deadlocked | Yes | No |
2013 | Killing Lincoln | Yes | Yes |
TV series
Year | Title | Writer | Executive producer | Notes |
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2001 | Band of Brothers | Yes | Yes | 3 episodes |
References
- ^ "10 Questions: Erik Jendresen". IGN Film Force. December 8, 2003. Archived from the original on February 15, 2004. Retrieved March 12, 2006.
- The Wrap. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
External links
- Erik Jendresen at IMDb
- Interview with IGN Film Force
- "Band of Brothers" at TV Tome.
- "Killing Lincoln" Interview with Indiewire.com