Drew Pearce (b. 1975)
Birthplace:
Fife, Scotland, UK
Born:
August 24, 1975
Drew Pearce (born August 24, 1975) is a British screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on The Fall Guy (2024), Hotel Artemis (2018), Iron Man 3 (2013), Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019), and Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015). Early in his career, Pearce created the British television comedy show No Heroics. He later wrote and directed the celebrated Marvel One-Shot film All Hail the King, starring Ben Kingsley, which served as the foundation for 2021's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. His directorial debut came with Hotel Artemis (2018), a futuristic thriller set in a secret, members-only hospital for criminals, starring Jodie Foster. Pearce has also made his mark directing music videos, including Vampire Weekend's "Gen-X Cops," Miles Kane's "Rearrange," and Father John Misty's "The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apt." In 2019, Pearce founded the production company Point of No Return. The company's current projects include the Dave Bautista thriller Cooler (produced alongside Infrared and FilmNation) and the sci-fi legal drama Dolly. Description above from the Wikipedia article Drew Pearce, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.