Brad Furman
Brad Furman (* in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States ) is an American film director.
Life
Furman grew up in Lafayette Hill and attended Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, as well as the Friends Central in Wynnewood. Later he attended the Tisch School of the Arts for Film and Television at New York University.
He has worked in film and television since the early 2000s, including at a film agency and as a producer at the ABC talk show The Nancy Glass Show. He also worked in the production of the films Erin Brockovich (2000) and The Mexican (2001) as an assistant to Julia Roberts.
In 2002, he made several short films and a documentary. In 2007, Furman led to The Take debut as a director in a feature film. The main roles were John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez and Tyrese Gibson, the Furman was also privately friends for many years.
When Lions Gate Entertainment and Lakeshore Entertainment a young director sought The client for the film adaptation of Michael Connelly 's novel, the producers were aware for a clue of Connelly on Furman's directorial debut, The Take. Furman was eventually entrusted with the Director for The Lincoln Lawyer. The film, starring Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, Marisa Tomei and William H. Macy received good to very good reviews and was a worldwide box office receipts of over $ 75 million (as of December 2011) and a budget of $ 40 million and financially successfully.
The third directorial effort was initially Cry Macho, a film adaptation of the novel by N. Richard Nash from 1975, announced. The film should also represent the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger as an actor after the end of his office as governor of California. Because of the marriage crisis Schwarzenegger However the project was not initially pursued.
2013 third feature film Runner Runner was published Furman, whose main roles Justin Timberlake, Ben Affleck and Gemma Arterton took over.
Filmography
- 2002: Fast Forward (Short Film )
- 2003: The Stranger ( short film )
- 2003: Unbroken (Short Film )
- 2005: Buried Alive in the Blues ( documentary )
- 2007: The Take
- 2011: The Lincoln Lawyer ( The Lincoln Lawyer )
- 2013: Runner Runner