Destin Daniel Cretton

Destin Daniel Cretton (born November 23, 1978) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. He is best known for his films Short Term 12 (2013), The Glass Castle (2017), and Just Mercy (2019), all in collaboration with Brie Larson, and for directing the Marvel Studios film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).

Works

Spider-Man 4

The next installment of the MCU Spider-Man franchise: a sequel to "Spider-Man: No Way Home" and the first in a possible new trilogy.

Release Date: 2026-07-31

Department: Directing

Job: Director

American Born Chinese
6.4

American Born Chinese

Average teenager Jin Wang juggles his high school social life with his immigrant home life. When he meets a new foreign student on the first day of the school year, even more worlds collide as Jin is unwittingly entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods.

Release Date: 2023-05-24

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 95

In the Garden of Tulips

Amidst the 1988 war, Caroline takes a car ride with her father to the Iranian countryside of Birjand.

Release Date: 2023-04-14

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

6.0

Closing Dynasty

On a school day, a seven year-old girl, Queenie, hustles and schemes ways to make money on the streets of New York City.

Release Date: 2022-06-08

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 5

8.0

Same Old

After his e-bike is stolen, a food delivery driver in New York City comes to terms with the fragility of his life in America.

Release Date: 2022-05-18

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1

Tokyo Vice
7.9

Tokyo Vice

A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.

Release Date: 2022-04-07

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 18

Vote Count: 284

7.5

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

Release Date: 2021-09-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 9568

Marvel Studios Assembled
7.2

Marvel Studios Assembled

Go behind the scenes of the shows and movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, following the filmmakers, cast and crew, and Marvel heroes every step of the way.

Release Date: 2021-03-12

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 205

7.9

Just Mercy

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

Release Date: 2019-12-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2295

7.1

The Glass Castle

A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.

Release Date: 2017-08-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 832

Los

Written by three juvenile inmates facing life sentences, "LOS" is a loss of innocence story that follows twelve-year-old Chris as he discovers that smoking pot for the first time, losing his virginity, and being part of a drive-by shooting aren't nearly as scary as being emotionally vulnerable with the girl he loves.

Release Date: 2017-07-21

Department: Production

Job: Producer

7.5

The Shack

A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.

Release Date: 2017-03-03

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2142

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
5.7

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

Release Date: 2015-08-02

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 17

Switchfoot: Close to Our Hearts, The Bro-Am Documentary

San Diego-based, Grammy-award-winning rock band Switchfoot gave four local teen filmmakers behind-the-scenes access to their 10th annual Bro-Am surf contest and concert, which has raised more than a million dollars for San Diego underprivileged teens. The Canyon Crest Academy student filmmakers who created this documentary attend the same public school district where members of Switchfoot grew up and developed their love for music, surf, and beach culture. A production of the school program CCA-TV and Envision Cinema, this short film focuses on the band members' desire to give back to the community that invested in them when they were teens.

Release Date: 2014-10-14

Department: Production

Job: Producer

7.0

Short Term 12: Behind the Scenes

A behind the scenes from film Short Term 12

Release Date: 2014-01-14

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

7.8

Short Term 12

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.

Release Date: 2013-08-23

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1311

5.8

I Am Not a Hipster

Things are not looking good for Brook, a young, talented singer/songwriter who has become the clichéd tortured artist. Slow to come to terms with the death of his mother, Brook is self-absorbed, aggressive, and the major obstruction to his own career success. His isolation is lifted when his three sisters and estranged father come to spread his mother’s ashes. Brook’s loving sisters have a magical effect on his anger and apathy, suggesting there may be hope for the misanthropic musician after all.

Release Date: 2013-01-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 12

6.9

Short Term 12

A day at a group home for troubled adolescents. Denim is the head counselor, involved somehow with Natalia, another counselor. During the day, we watch them and other staff deal with a boy who's getting into fights though he has only a week to go before his 18th birthday, a girl whose birthday it is, a foul-mouthed lad, and others. Denim uses music to calm one youth, orients a new staff member, sneaks a marijuana cigarette during a break, and by the day's end, talks to Natalia. Do any of us have it together?

Release Date: 2008-09-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 23

Deacon's Mondays

Deacon lives in a fantastical world of snowing feathers, hailing golf balls and incredible guilt. After a petty accident begins to haunt him, the lonely landscaper must stumble through his mundane life while combating his inner torment. Through an unlikely friendship with an elderly woman, Deacon comes face to face with his own humanness and learns that he is not alone.

Release Date: 2007-09-13

Department: Production

Job: Producer

8.0

Drakmar: A Vassal's Journey

A coming of age saga about a 14-year old boy whose life alternates between the medieval fantasy kingdom of Adria and the real world trials of a challenging adolescence.

Release Date: 2006-05-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

5.0

Bartholomew's Song

In a society strict with repetition, Bartholomew's discovery of a music box leads to him embarking on a small journey to break the system.

Release Date: 2006-04-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

Longbranch: A Suburban Parable

A cowboy, a blind man, and a guy in a red sweater all mix together in this didactic recipe of hamburger, ketchup and suicide.

Release Date: 2002-10-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Untitled Live-Action Naruto Film

Feature adaptation of the iconic manga. Plot TBA.

Department: Production

Job: Producer

By the Time the Sun Is Hot

Staged as a classic-era Bible epic, a celebrated bride discovers she is incapable of bearing children, while her cousin, a struggling farmer, harbours a dark jealousy towards a prosperous shepherd.

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Wonder Man

Wonder Man

Follows Simon Williams, also known in Marvel Comics as Wonder Man. Described as a Hollywood satire.

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 2

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