Josh Klausner

Josh Klausner
OccupationScreenwriter
EducationPrinceton University
SpouseHyatt Bass
Children2 sons
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

Year Title Director Writer
2000 The 4th Floor Yes Yes
2007 Shrek the Third No Additional
2010 Date Night No Yes
Shrek Forever After No Yes
2018 Wanderland Yes Yes

Production assistant

Second unit director

References

  1. ^ Milano-Firenze, Mo-Net s.r.l. "Josh Klausner - MYmovies". www.mymovies.it.
  2. ^ "Princeton Alumni Weekly". 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. ^ a b 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. Retrieved 2024-05-16.