Jim Wilson (producer)
Jim Wilson (* in the 20th century) is an American film producer, film director and screenwriter. He became internationally known through the production of movies The Dances With Wolves, Wyatt Earp - The life of a legend, Message in a Bottle - The beginning of a great love, and Mr. Brooks - The killer in you
Life and career
Jim Wilson has been active since the early 1980s in the film industry in various capacities. He attended Antioch College and was a graduate of the Berkeley Film Institute. Wilson began his film career in 1983 as a director and producer for the drama Consenting Adults. Starring Kevin Costner played. There the long-standing collaboration began with his friend Costner and the writer and screenwriter Michael Blake, whom he had met in Berkeley. With Kevin Costner Wilson has raised eleven joint film projects from the baptism since then, including the widely acclaimed Oscar-winning Western Drama Dances with Wolves, where Jim Wilson an Oscar in the category was awarded Best Film itself, the film production Bodyguard, the TV mini- series 500 Nations - the history of the Indians, the psychological thriller Mr. Brooks - the killer in you or the socially critical policy fable Swing Vote. Most of these films have been realized by a company founded by Costner and Wilson Production Company TIG Productions.
Besides his collaboration with Costner, Jim Wilson also produced such films as Rapa Nui - Rebellion in paradise with Jason Scott Lee, Esai Morales, Sandrine Holt, the film was directed by Kevin Reynolds, with the Wilson also worked multiple times or the satire head above water with Cameron Diaz, where Wilson himself also directed the film. His latest project, the film drama 50 to 1 will premiere in March 2014 in the cast Skeet Ulrich, Christian Kane and William Devane.
Jim Wilson produced in his career over 15 movies, took himself six times in a film on the director's chair and also wrote two screenplays for his films himself