BIOGRAPHY

Jonathan Mostow began his filmmaking career while a student at Harvard University, where he directed numberous award-winning shorts and documentaries. After graduating from Harvard, Mostow also trained at the American Repertory Company and New York City's Lee Strasberg Institute before making his first feature, the direct-to-video release Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers (1989) which owed a passing debt to Re-Animinator, as they both dealt with attempts to bring people back  from the dead.      In 1991, Mostow landed the Showtime film Flight of the Black Angel, about a colonel who trains fighter pilots and his troubled protege who wants to attack the local population. The film had earned him a cable ACE nomination for Best International Movie or Special. Subsequently, he spent several years developing Breakdown and The Game (both 1997), penning an early draft of the latter with the hope of directing. Instead, David Fincher landed the assignment behind the camera and Mostow was relegated to an executive producer credit.      However, Mostow first gained attention as the writer and director of the Paramount thriller Breakdown, starring Kurt Russell. With that film, he quickly established himself as a purveyor of action-oriented films that have deeper

psychological investigative base. The taut thriller proved to be a surprise box office and critically acclaimed hit and launched him into the A-list of action directors next to the likes of Richard Donnor and James Cameron. He later directed the finale (part twelve) of the Emmy Award-winning HBO mini-series From The Earth To The Moon in 1998 and his next feature film as director and writer was the edge-of-your-seat thriller U-571 (2000), starring Matthew McConaughey and Bill Paxton, which also proved to be a critical and financial hit.      Mostow went on to co-found a production company (Mostow/Lieberman Productions) with former executive and Universal Pictures Production President Hal Lieberman and signed a four-year deal with Universal and in 2001, after director James Cameron bowed out of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), action movie superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger offered Mostow the chance of a lifetime...directing him in the $175 million blockbuster sequel. Taking over directorial duties from series creator Cameron seems like an ambitious and challenging role for Mostow to take on, but fans of his are confident that he will provide chills, thrills and a whole lot of action to satisfy everyone. Time will tell if T3 will make a megastar director out of him. (The majority of this biography was taken from Hollywood.com. Click here to view it.)

FILMOGRAPHY

MEXICALI (2005) TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES (2003) U-571 (2000) THE GAME (1997) BREAKDOWN (1997) FLIGHT OF THE BLACK ANGEL (1991) (TV) BEVERLY HILLS BODYSNATCHES (1989)