Jeff Nathanson

Jeffrey D Nathanson born October 12 1965 is an American screenwriter director and producer Nathanson was born on October 12 1965 in Los Angeles County California He attended the University of California Santa Barbara as an English major from 1983 to 1985 While at UC Santa Barbara he worked on the schools newspaper the Daily Nexus and has stated that the courses he took at UC Santa Barbara led him to want to become a screenwriter He later enrolled in the screenwriting programme at the AFI Conservatory for one year He is best known for his work on the Rush Hour sequels Rush Hour 2 and Rush Hour 3 Catch Me If You Can The Terminal and The Last Shot He cowrote a story draft for the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008 with George Lucas the film was directed by Steven Spielberg He wrote the screenplay for Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales 2017 on which he also received a story by cocredit the latter with Terry Rossio He wrote the script for the 2019 liveaction remake of The Lion King for Disney directed by Jon Favreau He has also been announced to write its upcoming prequel Mufasa The Lion King directed instead by Barry Jenkins On October 3 2017 it was reported that Nathanson would be penning a script for a biographical film directed by Brett Ratner based on the life of the Playboy founder Hugh Hefner who will be portrayed by Academy Award winner Jared Leto but the biopic was put indefinitely on hold and it was confirmed that Leto would not portray the Playboy founder following the emergence of sexual harassment allegations against Ratner on November 2 2017 Nathanson was nominated for a Best Original Screenplay British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for his work on Catch Me If You Can Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Nathanson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia