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 Augustcreated television show DC 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 Chabons novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh released in 2008 He wrote and directed 2016s actioncomedy Central Intelligence with Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart He directed the 2013 hit Were the Millers starring Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston In June 2014 he was rumored to replace Edgar Wright to direct Marvels AntMan 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 Legendarys 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 liveaction film based on the Voltron franchise