Josh Klausner

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Josh Klausner
OccupationScreenwriter
EducationPrinceton University
SpouseHyatt Bass
Children2 sons
RelativesSid Bass (father-in-law)
Anne Hendricks Bass (mother-in-law)

Josh Klausner is an American screenwriter.

He wrote Date Night (2010) and Shrek Forever After (2010).

Biography[edit]

Early life[edit]

Josh Klausner graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.[1][2]

Career[edit]

He started his career in the movie industry as an assistant for Dumb & Dumber in 1994.[3] He then worked as the second unit director for Kingpin in 1996, There’s Something About Mary in 1998, Me, Myself & Irene in 2000, and Shallow Hal in 2001.[4]

He was the screenwriter of The 4th Floor (1999), Date Night (2010), and Shrek Forever After (2010).[4]

Personal life[edit]

He is married to Hyatt Bass, a novelist and Texas oil heiress.[5] They have two sons, Jasper and Hayden. They reside in a 12,000 square-foot house on Greenwich Street in the West Village on the island of Manhattan, in New York City.[5] The house, a former film studio, was redesigned by architect Annabelle Selldorf for them.[5]

Filmography[edit]

Year Title Director Writer
2000 The 4th Floor Yes Yes
2007 Shrek The Third No Additional
2010 Date Night No Yes
Shrek Forever After No Yes
2018 Wanderland Yes Yes

Production assistant

Second unit director

References[edit]

  1. ^ Milano-Firenze, Mo-Net s.r.l. "Josh Klausner - MYmovies". www.mymovies.it.
  2. ^ "Princeton Alumni Weekly". princeton alumni weekly. 23 August 1991. p. 59 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Josh Klausner". IMDb.
  4. ^ a b Stuart Miller, Josh Klausner: Learned about laughs on the set, Variety, December 3, 2010
  5. ^ a b c Julie Satow, Palaces-in-the-Making, The New York Times, October 24, 2013

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