Jonathan Herman

Jonathan Herman's first job in the entertainment industry was as a production assistant on Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights. After that, he was an assistant to producer Tom Sternberg during the development and production of Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Herman then served as director of development at StudioCanal Los Angeles before leaving the development world to focus on writing. He sold his first spec script, Conviction, to Warner Bros., for producer Joel Silver. Soon after, he sold another spec, Rites of Men, to Universal Pictures. Since then, Herman has worked on several feature-film projects at Universal, including a remake of The Birds and the tech-thriller Untitled Hacker Project as well as the psychological action-thriller The Demonologist for ImageMovers and a remake of the iconic Scarface.

Universal Pictures