Christopher B. Landon

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Christopher Beau Landon (born February 27, 1975 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American screenwriter and film director . He is known for his screenplay for Disturbia (2007) and the second to fifth films in the Paranormal Activity series.

life and career

Christopher Landon was born in February 1975 as one of four children in Los Angeles, California to actor Michael Landon and his second wife Marjorie Lynn Noe. His brother Michael Landon junior and his half-sister Jennifer Landon also work in the film business. His half-sister Leslie Landon was an actress in the television series Our Little Farm when she was a child . When Landon was four years old, his parents divorced. He lived with him until his father's death in July 1991. After graduating from Beverly Hills High School, he studied screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University . He dropped out in his third year when film director Larry Clark made him an offer to write a script after reading one of Landon's scripts. For example, he wrote the screenplay for A New Day in Paradise (1998) with James Woods and Melanie Griffith in the leading roles based on a template by Eddie Little together with Stephen Chin . 1999 outed himself as gay and then spoke openly about the homophobia in Hollywood and the film industry.

His next project, the five-part episodes - Short Boys Life 3 in 2000, dealt with homosexuality. In 2007 he wrote the screenplay for the horror film of the same name with Ehren Kruger based on the novel Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause . Landon sold the screenplay for Disturbia , a reinterpretation of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic The Window to the Courtyard , to DreamWorks Pictures . The film was number one in the US box office for three weeks and grossed over 117 million US dollars worldwide. To expand his repertoire, he wrote two scripts for the ABC series Dirty Sexy Money and in 2010 directed the satirical thriller Burning Palms for the first time.

In 2010, together with Michael R. Perry and Tom Pabst, he wrote the script for the second part of the Paranormal Activity film series. In the following years he was the sole screenwriter for the sequels Paranormal Activity 3 , Paranormal Activity 4 and Paranormal Activity: The Drawn . The latter is an offshoot of the actual film series, which Landon also directed. In 2015 and 2017 he directed a further feature film.

Filmography (selection)

As a screenwriter
As a director
  • 2010: Burning Palms
  • 2014: Paranormal Activity : The Marked Ones
  • 2015: Scouts vs. Zombies - Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
  • 2017: Happy Deathday (Happy Death Day)
  • 2019: Happy Deathday 2U (Happy Death Day 2U)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Anthony Kaufman: 10 Screenwriters to Watch - Christopher Landon . In: Variety.com . June 21, 2007. Retrieved January 7, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Landon, Christopher B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landon, Christopher Beau (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California, United States