Rob Letterman

Robert Thomas Letterman (born October 31, 1970) is an American film director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut as co-director of the animated comedy film Shark Tale(2004), for which he received a nomination for the Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production. He co-directed the animated science fiction comedy Monsters vs. Aliens (2009). Letterman has since transitioned into live-action filmmaking, directing the fantasy comedy film Gulliver's Travels (2010), the horror comedy film Goosebumps (2015), and the fantasy mystery film Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019). Letterman was born in Hawaii and attended Mid-Pacific Institute and USC. Before joining DreamWorks Animation, Letterman directed the short film Los Gringos, which was accepted at 2000's Sundance Film Festival. In 2002, Vicky Jenson and Eric "Bibo" Bergeron invited him as a screenwriter (then as co-director) in the making of Shark Tale. In 2010, Letterman directed the live-action film Gulliver's Travels, starring Jack Black in the lead role. He also directed the live-action/CGI film Pokémon Detective Pikachu, based on the Pokémon videogame franchise. The film was released on May 10, 2019. It grossed $433 million at the box office. It attained the highest percentage of positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for a film adaptation of a video game at the time. In 2020, Netflix announced Letterman as director for an upcoming live-action animated film adaptation of Ubisoft's Beyond Good & Evil video game. Since then, no further updates have been given for the film since the announcement. Letterman is in a relationship with Beth Pontrelli and has two children, Jack and Eva. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Letterman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Monsters vs Aliens

When Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches. The military jumps into action and captures Susan, secreting her away to a covert government compound. She is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of Monsters...

Release Date2009-03-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Secret Service Man #1 / Lieutenant (voice)

Vote Count4739

Goosebumps

A group of five high schoolers embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier of a teen named Harold Biddle – while also unearthing dark secrets from their parents' past.

Release Date2023-10-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count10

Vote Count194

Goosebumps: The Vanishing

When twins Devin and Cece are sent to spend a summer in Gravesend, Brooklyn with their divorced dad, scientist Anthony Brewer, they must band together with new friends to save the neighborhood from a long-dormant threat.

Release Date2025-01-10

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count44

Shark Tale

Oscar is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him into trouble. Meanwhile, Lenny is a great white shark with a surprising secret that no sea creature would guess: He's a vegetarian. When a lie turns Oscar into an improbable hero and Lenny becomes an outcast, the two form an unlikely friendship.

Release Date2004-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count6449

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent monster who seeks to be a detective.

Release Date2019-05-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7028

Over the Hedge

A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating – and learns a lesson about family himself.

Release Date2006-05-17

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count4581

Goosebumps

After moving to a small town, Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets next door neighbor Hannah, the daughter of bestselling Goosebumps series author R.L. Stine. When Zach unintentionally unleashes real monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it’s suddenly up to Stine, Zach and Hannah to get all of them back in the books where they belong.

Release Date2015-08-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3834

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

Based on the bestselling book series, this outrageous comedy tells the story of George and Harold, two overly imaginative pranksters who hypnotize their principal into thinking he’s an enthusiastic, yet dimwitted, superhero named Captain Underpants.

Release Date2017-06-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1258

Gulliver's Travels

Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.

Release Date2010-12-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2433

Club Oscar

Picking up where Shark Tale ends, all the characters of the film dance at the whale wash in a spoof of Saturday Night Fever.

Release Date2005-02-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count20

Shrek – I Feel Good Animation Test

Shrek dances around while the song "I Feel Good" plays, then, a mugger comes down using rope and tries to mug Shrek, when Shrek then makes the rope go back up which causes the mugger to scream. Shrek then continues dancing.

Release Date1996-04-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Dropz

A film about "real kids in a super extraordinary situation".

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector