In 2007, Curtis turned his hand to producing and among his credits are Taika Waititi's debut feature, the geek comedy Eagle vs Shark starring Jermaine Clement, and later another Waititi feature, Boy, which became the highest grossing local film in New Zealand history.
On television, Curtis appeared in FOX's Gang Related as Javier Acosta and as FBI Agent Dax Miller on ABC's Missing.
ABOUT THE CREW
KEVIN REYNOLDS (Director, Screenplay by) Raised as an Air Force brat, Kevin Reynolds' love for cinema inspired him to forsake his law school degree and move to Los Angeles to enroll in the University of Southern California's legendary film school. Reynolds' graduate thesis film Proof became the basis for Fandango starring Kevin Costner and was produced by Steve Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment as one of its first productions. During his time at USC, Reynolds also wrote the Cold War cult hit Red Dawn, which John Milius directed.
Reynolds also directed The Beast, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Rapa Nui, Waterworld, The Count of Monte Cristo, Tristan + Isolde, and One Eight Seven, as well as the You Gotta Believe Me episode of Spielberg's anthology television series, Amazing Stories.
Most recently, Reynolds directed Hatfields & McCoys for History Channel and Sony Pictures Television.
PAUL AIELLO (Screenplay by, Story by) began his career by writing and selling Bumper to Bumper - the secret life of cars to 21st Century Fox and has since written on many other projects including a Korean War epic/love story, The Translator, and Flying South an animated family film about vacationing birds. Risen is his first produced feature. A Christian himself, this had made it all the more rewarding
MICKEY LIDDELL (Producer) has had an extensive career producing a wide variety of highly successful films and television shows, working both independently and for studios. In 2007, he founded LD Entertainment, a film development and production company which has recently expanded into television, theater and digital platforms.
The company recently wrapped principal photography on Anthropoid, a World War II thriller starring Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy, and shooting is underway on Megan Leavey, a film based on the true story of a female Iraq war hero, with Kate Mara, Edie Falco, and Common. They have also come on board two exciting new ventures: The Zookeeper's Wife, adapted from the international best-selling novel, starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Bruhl, and Jackie, which stars Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy.
The company has also financed and produced such critically-acclaimed films as Joe Carnahan's The Grey, starring Liam Neeson; Rodrigo Garcia's Albert Nobbs, which garnered Oscar® nominations for Glenn Close and Janet McTeer; Willliam Friedkin's Killer Joe, starring Matthew McConaughey and Emile Hirsch; and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Oscar®-nominated Biutiful, which starred Javier Bardem.
PATRICK AIELLO (Producer) is a film producer, senior production executive and feature screenwriter with extensive experience in development and creative affairs, talent packaging and film financing, physical production, and worldwide distribution and marketing of mainstream feature films for major studios and independently financed slates.
Aiello's produced films to date are Burn Your Maps for Warner Brothers Pictures and Cinelou Films written and directed by Jordan Roberts, starring Vera Farmiga, Jason Tremblay, Virginia Madsen, and Marton Csokas (2016); As Above So Below for Universal Pictures and Legendary Pictures written and directed by the brothers' Dowdle, (2014); The Double for Image Entertainment written and directed by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, starring Richard Gere, Martin Sheen and Topher Grace (2011); Dylan Dog: Dead of Night for Freestyle Releasing directed by Kevin Munroe, written by Thomas Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer, starring Brandon Routh, Taye Diggs and Pete Storemare (2010); Leonie for Monterey Media written and directed by Hisako Matsui, starring Emily Mortimer, Christina Hendricks, Mary Kay Place and Shido Nakamura (2010); The Dark Country for Sony Pictures directed by Thomas Jane, written by Tab Murphy, starring Thomas Jane, Lauren German and Ron Pearlman (2009); Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li for 20th Century Fox directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, written by Justin Marks, starring Kristin Kreuk, Chris Klein and Pei-Pei Cheng (2009); The Other End of the Line for MGM Studios directed by James Dodson, written by Tracey Jackson, starring Jesse Metcalfe and Shriya Saran (2008); and Asylum for MGM Studios directed by David R. Ellis, written by Ethan Lawrence, starring Sarah Roemer and Mark Rolston (2008).
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