Rod Lurie

Rod Lurie is an IsraeliAmerican director screenwriter and former film critic Luries first foray into filmmaking as writer and director was the lowbudget political thriller Deterrence 1999 with Kevin Pollak as the first Jewish President of the United States The characters in his films of President Jackson Evans The Contender prison inmate Lt Gen Eugene Irwin The Last Castle FBI agent Paige Van Doren Line of Fire and vice presidential nominee Gen ret Warren Keaton Commander in Chief are all fictional graduates of the Long Gray Line