Jonathan Mostow

Jonathan Mostow (born November 28, 1961) is an American film and television director, writer and producer. 2Early life Mostow was born in Woodbridge, Connecticut to Jewish parents. He graduated from Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut and Harvard. He also trained at the American Repertory Company and New York City's Lee Strasberg Institute. 2Career Mostow directed several short films and documentaries as well as music videos before making his first feature, the direct-to-video release Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers (1989). He then made the Showtime film Flight of Black Angel (1991), about a colonel who trains fighter pilots and his troubled protégé who wants to attack the local population.In 1997 Mostow directed Breakdown. The thriller stars Kurt Russell as a man whose wife seems to have vanished in the desert. Mostow went on to co-found a production company with former executive Hal Lieberman and signed a four-year deal with Universal. He also spent several years developing The Game (1997), but opted instead to direct his own original screenplay for Breakdown. Mostow was credited as Executive Producer on the David Fincher-directed film.Mostow and Michael Douglas (who starred in The Game) were to collaborate on a World War II-era submarine film U-571 (2000) but Douglas pulled out due to scheduling conflict