Rodney Rothman

Rodney Rothman
Rothman at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con promoting Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Born	United States
Occupation(s)	Television writer, producer, author, screenwriter, film director

Rodney Rothman is an American writer, producer, and film director.

In 2005, Rothman wrote the book Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement. He has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, and also wrote the scripts for Grudge Match, 22 Jump Street and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which served as his feature directorial debut. He co-directed the film with Bob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey.

Filmography

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall	No	No	executive
2009	Year One	No	No	executive
2010	Get Him to the Greek	No	No	Yes
2012	The Five-Year Engagement	No	No	executive
2013	Grudge Match	No	Yes	No	Co-writer, screenplay only (with Tim Kelleher)
2014	22 Jump Street	No	Yes	No	Co-writer, screenplay only (with Michael Bacall and Oren Uziel)
2016	Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping	No	No	Yes
2018	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Yes	Yes	No	Feature directorial debut Co-director (with Bob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey) Co-writer, screenplay only (with Phil Lord)

Television

Year	Title	Writer	Producer	Notes
1995–2000	Late Show with David Letterman	Yes	Yes	Apprentice writer (1995–1996); Staff writer (1996–1998); Head writer (1998–2000); Producer (1999–2000)
2001–2002	Undeclared	Yes	superviser
2004	Game Over	No	consultant
	$5.15/hr.	Yes	executive	TV pilot for HBO
2005	Early Bird	No	executive	Creator; TV pilot for NBC
	Committed	Yes	superviser
2006	Help Me Help You	Yes	executive
	The 78th Annual Academy Awards	Yes	No

External links

• Rodney Rothman at IMDb