Rawson Marshall Thurber

Rawson Marshall Thurber (born February 9, 1975) is an American filmmaker and actor. Thurber was born in San Francisco, California. He is the son of attorney Marshall Thurber. He is a 1997 graduate of Union College (Schenectady, New York), where he was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and played wide receiver on the football team for two years. He is also a graduate of the Peter Stark Producing Program at USC. Thurber worked as an assistant to screenwriter John August, beginning with the 2000 August-created television show D.C. In 2002, he wrote and directed the original Terry Tate: Office Linebacker commercials for Reebok. In 2004, he wrote and directed the hit comedy film, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story. He wrote and directed the film adaptation of Michael Chabon's novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, released in 2008. He wrote and directed 2016's action-comedy Central Intelligence with Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. He directed the 2013 hit We're the Millers, starring Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston. In June 2014, he was rumored to replace Edgar Wright to direct Marvel's Ant-Man, but later turned the job down. Thurber wrote and directed the 2018 action film Skyscraper from Legendary Pictures, reteaming with Dwayne Johnson and released by Universal. He next wrote and directed Legendary's $150 million budget action comedy Red Notice (2021), starring Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, and Johnson. It is the third time he has collaborated with the latter. The project was released by Netflix. In 2021, Ubisoft announced Thurber would direct the film adaptation of its game series, The Division, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain. The film will be released on Netflix. In 2022, entertainment company eOne announced that Thurber will be writing and producing the pilot for upcoming TV series Dungeons & Dragons. He also signed on to direct a live-action film based on the Voltron franchise. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rawson Marshall Thurber, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

We're the Millers

A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.

Release Date2013-08-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd The Ultimate Border Guard

Vote Count9109

Easy A

Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.

Release Date2010-09-16

Charactersd Quiznos Guy

Vote Count7068

Red Notice

An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world's most wanted. But when a daring heist brings together the FBI's top profiler and two rival criminals, there's no telling what will happen.

Release Date2021-11-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Exhausted Film Director in Bar

Vote Count6061

Central Intelligence

Calvin Joyner, a mild-mannered accountant whose high school glory days are long behind him, reconnects with an awkward pal from high school through Facebook. After meeting up, Calvin’s mundane life takes an unexpectedly thrilling turn when he's thrust into the world of international espionage.

Release Date2016-06-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Handsome Pants-Catcher

Vote Count6111

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a dodgeball guru and Goodman's attorney, La Fleur and his rag-tag team of underdogs launch a knock-down, drag-out battle in which the winner takes all.

Release Date2004-06-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Obnoxious Las Vegas Homophobe

Vote Count3609

The Wedding Ringer

Doug Harris is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams, Doug is referred to Jimmy Callahan, owner and CEO of Best Man, Inc., a company that provides flattering best men for socially challenged guys in need. What ensues is a hilarious wedding charade as they try to pull off the big con, and an unexpected budding bromance between Doug and his fake best man Jimmy.

Release Date2015-01-16

Charactersd Cop

Vote Count1619

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

Decades since their successful television series was canceled, Chip has succumbed to a life of suburban domesticity as an insurance salesman. Dale, meanwhile, has had CGI surgery and works the nostalgia convention circuit, desperate to relive his glory days. When a former cast mate mysteriously disappears, Chip and Dale must repair their broken friendship and take on their Rescue Rangers detective personas once again to save their friend’s life.

Release Date2022-05-20

Charactersd Voltron Vendor

Vote Count1291

The Nines

A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.

Release Date2007-01-21

Charactersd Game Night Guest

Vote Count441

Millers Unleashed: Outtakes Overload

This isn't a traditional outtakes reel, but rather a short about the ad-libbing and different takes of each scene, including a nice collection of those unused moments throughout the segment. A number of bloopers are part of this piece as well which includes comments from director Rawson Marshall Thurber and actors Jennifer Aniston, Kathryn Hahn, Will Poulter, Emma Roberts, Nick Offerman and Jason Sudeikis. They tell us about the acting/improvisation processes used in the film and we see plenty of alternate takes.

Release Date2013-11-19

Charactersd Self

Skyscraper

Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.

Release Date2018-07-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5127

The Loop

The Loop is an American sitcom that ran from March 15, 2006 to July 1, 2007 on Fox. The show starred Bret Harrison as Sam Sullivan, a young professional trying to balance the needs of his social life with the pressures of working at the corporate headquarters of TransAlliance Airways, a major U.S. airline. Set in the city of Chicago, whose downtown loop area acted as the setting for most of the show. The show's theme song is "Hockey Monkey" by James Kochalka Superstar and the Zambonis.

Release Date2006-03-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count15

Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television

The LAPD thinks it's a good idea to form a task force partnering actors with homicide detectives.

Release Date2017-10-25

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count11

Voltron

Adapted from the 1980s American animated TV series of the same name (which began as a re-edit of the Japanese series Beast King GoLion) about a team of space explorers who pilot a giant super robot known as Voltron. This live-action feature film version will tell the story of a new generation of pilots. Further details TBA.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Based on Michael Chabon's novel, the film chronicles the defining summer of a recent college graduate who crosses his gangster father and explores love, sexuality, and the enigmas surrounding his life and his city.

Release Date2008-01-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count47

Cinema16: American Short Films

CINEMA16 celebrates the short film by showcasing some of the best classic and award-winning shorts on DVD. With over three hours of films CINEMA16: AMERICAN SHORT FILMS is essential viewing for anyone with an interest in the moving image. Films include Gus Van Sant's 1982 adaptation of a William S. Burroughs short story, The Discipline Of DE, Tim Burton's early stop motion animated classic Vincent, George Lucas' USC short Freiheit, Alexander Payne's previously unreleased UCLA graduation short Carmen, Paperboys by Mike Mills, D.A. Pennebaker's Duke Ellington scored Daybreak Express, Todd Solondz's NYU short Feelings, along with Oscar Winner The Lunch Date by Adam Davidson, Stefan Nadelman's multi- award winning documentary Terminal Bar, Joe Nussbaum's cult classic George Lucas In Love and 2006 Sundance Winner The Wraith Of Cobble Hill by Adam Parrish King. Films are subtitled in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese, and include commentaries from many of the directors involved.

Release Date2006-06-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Terry Tate, Office Linebacker

Retired NFL Linebacker, "Terrible" Terry Tate enforces the office rules at the Felcher and Sons' headquarters the only way he knows how: with bone-crushing tackles and hard-core trash-talk. With Terry in the corner office, you'll never be late for the morning meeting again.

Release Date2002-01-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count20

Spy vs. Spy

The Black Spy/Man in Black and White Spy/Spy in White, characters created by cartoonist Antonio Prohías, are shadowy operatives with matching ensembles and pointy noses who are always scheming to foil one another.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Manchild

Tommy is a young man who works hard to make it to graduation, to be a good friend and a good boyfriend, and to raise his three sisters. On his 18th birthday, Tommy must reckon with both his past and his future to define for himself what it means to become a man.

Release Date2008-12-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector