STORY DEVELOPMENT

 

Jason Matzner has over 20 years experience in feature film story development, working for companies such as Universal Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, and Imagine Entertainment.

 

Matzner has worked in all genres, but he particularly specializes in espionage thrillers, action movies, historical films, and prestige dramas.

 

Matzner’s development skills can help writers and producers adapt novels into films, deepen characters, fix difficult narrative problems, refine rough cuts, and otherwise maximize the artistic and commercial value of entertainment IP.

 

He is currently a senior story analyst at Universal, where he has developed major motion pictures such as:

 

• Upcoming JAMES BOND 25 (dir. Cary Fukanaga)

 

• The BOURNE IDENTITY franchise

  • • THE BOURNE IDENTITY (dir. Doug Liman)

    • THE BOURNE SUPREMACY (dir. Paul Greengrass)

    • THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM (dir. Paul Greengrass)

    • THE BOURNE LEGACY (dir. Tony Gilroy)

    • JASON BOURNE (dir. Paul Greengrass)

 

• Upcoming SCARFACE re-make

 

• STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (dir. F. Gary Gray)

 

• UNBROKEN (dir. Angelina Jolie)

 

• SKYSCRAPER (dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber)

 

• ABOUT TIME (dir. Richard Curtis)

 

• LONE SURVIVOR (dir. Peter Berg)

 

• EVEREST (dir. Baltazar Kormakur)

 

• RIDDICK (dir. David Twohy)

 

• LOWRIDERS (dir. Ricardo de Montreuil)

 

• THE OUTLAW KING (dir. David MacKenzie)

 

• KILL THE MESSENGER (dir. Michael Cuesta)

 

• SAVAGES (dir. Oliver Stone)

 

• TOWER HEIST (dir. Brett Ratner)

 

• SOURCE CODE (dir. Duncan Jones)

 

• GREEN ZONE (dir. Paul Greengrass)

 

• DUPLICITY (dir. Tony Gilroy)

 

• DEATH RACE (dir. Paul W. S. Anderson)

 

• CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR (dir. Mike Nichols)

 

• UNITED 93 (dir. Paul Greengrass)

 

• JARHEAD (dir. Sam Mendes)