Josh Klausner
EducationPrinceton University
OccupationScreenwriter
SpouseHyatt Bass
RelativesSid Bass (father-in-law)
Anne Hendricks Bass (mother-in-law)

Josh Klausner is an American screenwriter who wrote Date Night (2010) and Shrek Forever After (2010).

Biography

Early life

Josh Klausner graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.[1][2] After college, he won a Sundance Student Academy Award for a short film he had made.[3]

Career

He started his career in the movie industry as an assistant for Dumb & Dumber in 1994.[4] He then worked as the second unit director for Kingpin in 1996, There’s Something About Mary in 1998, Me, Myself & Irene in 2000, and Shallow Hal in 2001.[5]

He was the screenwriter of The 4th Floor (1999), Date Night (2010), and Shrek Forever After (2010).[5] In 2018, he was replaced by Jon Croker in the screenwriting of the animated film adaptation of High in the Clouds.[6]

Personal life

He is married to Hyatt Bass, a novelist and Texas oil heiress. They have two sons. They reside in a 12,000 square-foot house on Greenwich Street in the West Village, Manhattan, New York City. The house, a former film studio, was redesigned by architect Annabelle Selldorf for them.[7] The house, described as "a fortress", was sold for $42.5 million in 2014, "one of most expensive single-family houses to ever sell in Manhattan".[8]

Filmography

YearTitleDirectorWriter
2000The 4th Floor
2007Shrek the Third
2010Date Night
Shrek Forever After
2018Wanderland
TBA(Saint) Peter

Production assistant

Second unit director

References

  1. ^ Milano-Firenze, Mo-Net s.r.l. "Josh Klausner - MYmovies". www.mymovies.it
  2. ^ "Princeton Alumni Weekly". Vol. 92. princeton alumni weekly. 23 August 1991. p. 59. – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Klausner, Josh (2017-10-06). "How an Independent Filmmaker Went From Being the Farrelly Brothers’ Assistant to Making the Movies That Studios Wouldn’t". IndieWire. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  4. ^ "Josh Klausner". IMDb
  5. ^ Stuart Miller, Josh Klausner: Learned about laughs on the set, Variety, December 3, 2010
  6. ^ Koller, Cameron (2018-01-10). "Paul McCartney Taps New Writer for Animated Movie". www.animationmagazine.net. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  7. ^ Satow, Julie (2013-10-24). "Palaces-in-the-Making". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  8. ^ Budin, Jeremiah (2014-09-15). "West Village's Impenetrable Fortress Mansion Sells for $42.5M". Curbed NY. Archived from the original on May 30, 2016. Retrieved 2024-05-16.