Joseph Kosinski
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Kosinski at the Comic Con in San Diego, July 22, 2010
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| Born |
May 3, 1974 Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Occupation | Film director, film producer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Home town | Marshalltown, Iowa |
| Spouse(s) | Kristin Kosinski |
| Website | josephkosinski |
Joseph Kosinski (born May 3, 1974) is an American television commercial and feature film director best known for his computer graphics and computer generated imagery work. He made his big-screen directorial debut with the Disney Digital 3-D science fiction film Tron: Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 film Tron. His previous work has primarily been with CGI related television commercials including the "Starry Night" commercial for Halo 3 and the award-winning "Mad World" commercial for Gears of War.
Kosinski was born in Iowa, and raised in Marshalltown, Iowa, the son of Patricia (née Provost) and Joel Kosinski, a doctor.
His first major film was the special effects-laden Tron: Legacy. Using high-speed digital cameras, such as Vision Research Phantom models, the film was in Disney Digital 3D and IMAX 3D, with a release of December 2010.
After moving to Los Angeles, California, in 2005, he began writing a film treatment which would eventually develop into an unpublished graphic novel by the title Oblivion for Radical Comics. In August 2010, Walt Disney Pictures acquired the rights.William Monahan worked on the screenplay for a film adaptation. In March 2011, it was reported that Karl Gajdusek would rewrite the screenplay. Attempts to keep the film at a PG rating were unsuccessful leading to Disney giving up the rights, which were then acquired by Universal Pictures which agreed to a PG-13 rating. The $120-million-budgeted Oblivion began filming in October 2011, with Tom Cruise in the lead role, and was released in April 2013.
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