ESCAPE ROOM (2019) About The Crew
Adam Robitel, Neal H. Moritz, Ori Marmur, Bragi Schut, Maria Melnik, Rebecca Rivo, Marc Spicer, Steven Mirkovich, Brian Tyler, and John Carey
ADAM ROBITEL (Director), NEAL H. MORITZ (Producer), ORI MARMUR (Producer), BRAGI SCHUT (Screenplay by / Story by), MARIA MELNIK (Screenplay by), REBECCA RIVO (Executive Producer), MARC SPICER (Director of Photography), STEVEN MIRKOVICH (Editor), BRIAN TYLER (Composer), and JOHN CAREY (Composer)
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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
ADAM ROBITEL (Director) graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, a double major in film production and acting.
Robitel recently made headlines after being tapped to direct Blumhouse's creep-fest franchise Insidious: The Last Key (2017). The Last Key opened on January 5th to stellar domestic box office, grossing 30 million dollars on its opening weekend and more than 167 million dollars worldwide, making it the most lucrative Insidious to date. Robitel made a big splash in the genre world as a horror auteur having written, directed and produced The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) a found-footage horror thriller. The Taking of Deborah Logan won an iHorror Award for best direct release of 2014.
Paramount Studios then hired Robitel to do some rewrites on Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015). On the writing side, Robitel's original supernatural thriller idea Liminal sparked a bidding war and sold to Fox 2000 with Nina Jacobson producing. Robitel will serve as executive producer with Chris Landon writing the screenplay and directing. On the television side, he's developing a character driven private eye procedural with co-writer Gavin Heffernan, director Jusin Lin and show runner Nick Stoller, as well as an original horror series executive produced by Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa.
NEAL H. MORITZ (Producer) is the founder of Original Film and one of the most prolific producers in Hollywood today. Best known for the Fast & Furious films, including Furious 7, which broke multiple box office records to become the sixth highest grossing movie of all time, Moritz has produced over 50 major motion pictures, which have earned a total of over $10 billion worldwide.
Moritz recently released The Fate of the Furious , the eighth installment in the Fast franchise and currently has five projects in various stages of production, including Sonic the Hedgehog , based on Sega’s popular video game, for Paramount; Bloodshot, based on the Valiant comic series, for Sony; and Wonderland, based on the Spenser for Hire novels, at Netflix. He is currently completing an adaptation of the NY Times best seller The Art of Racing in the Rain for Fox 2000.
Additional film credits include 21 and 22 Jump Street, Passengers, Goosebumps, Goosebumps 2, Jack the Giant Slayer, Total Recall, The Change-Up, Battle: Los Angeles, The Green Hornet, The Bounty Hunter, I Am Legend, Vantage Point, Made of Honor, Evan Almighty, Gridiron Gang, Click, S.W.A.T., Sweet Home Alabama, XXX, Out of Time, Blue Streak, The Skulls, Cruel Intentions, Urban Legend, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Volcano, and Juice.
Moritz also has a successful television business with several series on the air, including “Preacher, ” based on the popular graphic novels, which was recently picked up for a fourth season by AMC, “Happy! ” which is currently shooting its second season for SyFy, and reboots of “SWAT” on CBS and “Prison Break” on Fox. Upcoming is an adaptation of the graphic novels “The Boys” at Amazon. Past television credits include the HBO movie The Rat Pack , which earned 11 Primetime Emmy nominations, Showtime’s highly acclaimed “The Big C,” and the NBC series “Save Me.”
A Los Angeles native, Moritz completed his undergraduate studies in economics at UCLA before earning a graduate degree from the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California.
ORI MARMUR (Producer) is a director in the Original Film division for Netflix based in Los Angeles.
Prior to joining Netflix, he was a producer for Neal Moritz’s Original Film. His focus was on film and television and he has experience managing every step of development, packaging, production, distribution and exhibition.
His previous credits include Passengers , starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, written by Jon Spaihts and directed by Morten Tyldum; Jack The Giant Slayer , starring Nicholas Hoult and Ewan McGregor, written by Chris McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer; Battle Los Angeles , starring Aaron Eckhart, written by Chris Bertolini and Shane Black and directed by Jonathan Liebesman; The Green Hornet, starring Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz and Christoph Waltz, written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and directed by Michel Gondry; and The Change-Up , starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman, written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore and directed by David Dobkin.
In addition to film, Marmur is currently executive producing the television series “Preacher” for AMC with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and re-teamed with them for the upcoming series “The Boys at Amazon” which Dan Trachtenberg is directing and Eric Kripke is show running.
Prior to joining Original Film, Marmur was the Executive Vice President of Peter Guber’s Mandalay Pictures, where he oversaw development and production of films including Donnie Brasco, The Score, Sleepy Hollow, Enemy At The Gates and Seven Years In Tibet.
Prior to joining Mandalay, Marmur worked at CAA with the late Jay Maloney, and before that at ICM, Columbia Pictures and InterTalent.
BRAGI SCHUT (Screenplay by / Story by) just sold his original spec Samaritan to MGM with Sylvester Stallone attached to star and produce. He also set up his action spec March or Die with Chuck Roven producing and Kyle Alvarez to direct.
Just prior to this, Schut sold Big Rig , an action project at Paramount with Michael Bay, and supernatural thriller The Portrait with Neal Moritz producing.
On the TV front, Schut just sold a sci-fi drama project to AMC based on the comic “Plutona” by Jeff Lemire. He is also Showrunner/Exec Producer of the new “Ninjago” series. Schut previously wrote pilots “Six” for Sony TV, “Theseus” for Syfy, and created & co-exec produced television series “Threshold” for CBS.
His produced credits include Nicholl Fellowship-winning script Season of the Witch which starred Nicolas Cage and Claire Foy. Schut also previously wrote tentpole Singualrity for director Roland Emmerich, Gaiking for Gale Anne Hurd and Toei, and Battle of the Planets for Imagine.
MARIA MELNIK (Screenplay by) grew up in the far eastern Russian port town of Magadan, infamous for its dark history as a gateway to Stalin’s labor camps, and immigrated to Alaska when she was eleven years old. She received her B.A. in Media Studies from Vassar College and her MFA in producing from UCLA. Melnik began her career as a staff writer on Bryan Fuller and Michael Green’s Starz series “American Gods,” based on the award-winning novel by Neil Gaiman, and was recently an executive story editor on “Counterpart” (Starz). Melnik is currently adapting Valiant Comics’ Faith for Sony Pictures, which will be the first female plus sized superhero portrayed on screen.
REBECCA RIVO (Executive Producer)
MARC SPICER (Director of Photography) is an Australian cinematographer with a lifetime of working behind the camera and a career highlighted by international awards.
For many years he operated on feature films for some of the world’s most talented cinematographers such as Bruno Delbonell AFC/ASC, Amir Mokri, Jeffrey Kimball ASC and Stephen F Windon ACS/ASC whom he operated for on eight films and served as 2nd Unit cinematographer on another five.
Spicer’s first American film as a Director of Photography was Furious 7 . His relationship with Director James Wan took him on to shoot Lights Out and won him an Australian Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Cinematography on a Feature Film.
Other awards he has garnered include Outstanding Cinematography for a Documentary Series for Nobody’s Children and Outstanding Cinematography on a Miniseries or Movie for Underbelly Razor . He also shot 2nd Unit and Underwater Cinematography on the Academy Award®-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon .
Spider’s career began in television for the prestigious network Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) as a news and documentary cameraman shooting more than 50 documentaries on film for ABC, BBC, Channel 4 UK and KCETV around Australia and the world.
He lives in Los Angeles and has been shooting feature films in the US, Cuba, the UK and South Africa for the past five years.
Born in Swansea, South Wales, MARC SPICER (Director of Photography)had a keen interest in art and the theatre from an early age and in his teenage years he became a member of The West Glamorgan Youth Theatre. He completed a foundation course with a distinction in Art at Swansea College of Art in 1989 and went on to graduate from Wimbledon School of Art with a First Class BA (Hons) degree in 3 Dimensional Theatre
Design in 1992. His career in theatre began at the Royal Opera House as Assistant Designer on the production of “Turandot.”
Thomas was involved in various commercials before breaking into films. His first film experience was on the period feature The Mystery of Edwin Drood , an adaptation of Charles Dickens unfinished detective story. This led to him working with Peakviewing on 12 feature films over six years including period, science fiction, and fantasy. Mostly shot in South Africa, he gained extensive experience and expanded his reputation as a production designer.
On his return to Wales, he fulfilled his dream to work at home with Russell T. Davies on
“Doctor Who ” (Series 1-5) and the spin off series “Torchwood ” (Series 1-3), “The Sarah Jane Adventures,” and the pilot for “Sherlock.” His built-up reputation for creating new worlds took him back to South Africa in 2010 to work with Kudos on a British television science-fiction drama serial called “Outcasts .” He went on to work with World Productions on “United” which explored the story of the Munich air disaster and then the BBC2 police drama “Line of Duty. ”
In 2012, Thomas was instrumental in bringing Hollywood to Swansea with the historical fantasy drama series “Da Vinci’s Demons,” created by David Goyer for Starz TV. He assisted in setting up the studio and was producer and designer on seasons 1 to 3. His next project was Set Fire to the Stars, the Dylan Thomas biopic starring Elijah Wood. He also exec produced the documentary feature film Jack to a King: The Swansea Story.
Thomas spent some time assisting on the design of the BadWolf studio in Cardiff and it was not long before Africa was calling again. He returned to work on several projects including Resident Evil: The Final Chapter .
He is currently shooting in Cape Town and Namibia with Paul W. S. Anderson on Monster Hunter, the fantasy action thriller based on the video game series of the same name.
Thomas has received much recognition for his work; BAFTA Cymru and RTS Award nominations for Best Design, and a National BAFTA nomination for Break Through Talent. In 2006 he won a BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Design for his work on Torchwood , and in 2010 Best Design for “Doctor Who Waters of Mars .” In 2015 Thomas won the BAFTA Cymru award for best design for his work on Set Fire to the Stars . He also won the Arts and Culture Category of the IWA Inspire Awards and won the top vote for the 2015 Wales Online Arts Power List.
Thomas has always been a great supporter of emerging talent and set up the Adjacent Educational Project whilst working on “DaVinci’s Demons” and is a director of the training scheme “It’s My Shout.” He is Vice President and a Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and a Fellow of the University of Wales Trinity St David and when he is not creating other worlds on the African continent, he resides in Swansea with his wife Nathalie and his daughters Nell and Macy.
STEVEN MIRKOVICH (Editor) has seen forty plus feature film credits as a film editor. This thriller/drama marks Mirkovich’s first picture with director Adam Robitel and his second collaboration with producer Neal Moritz. Mirkovich’s career includes earlier cult classics like John Carpenter’s, Big Trouble in Little China , and blockbusters such as, The Other Guys, Con Air, Broken Arrow, The Ghost and the Darkness, and I Know What You Did Last Summer . Recent credits include Rings and Risen . In Hardcore Henry he delivered the world’s first action POV movie, driving it home with his brand of guts-in-your-throat editing. His experience is vast and his doctoring skills always in demand.
Mirkovich was born in Oceanside, California, to a Marine Corps Captain who worked in the film unit. His first job was in the mail room at Warner Brothers where he worked his way into the editing department. By his early twenties, he assisted the top editors of the day and was credited as film editor on his first feature by age 29. Mirkovich is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences/Film Editing Branch and the American Cinema Editors.
BRIAN TYLER (Composer) is a composer and conductor of over 70 films and was named Film Composer of the Year at the 2014 Cue Awards. Tyler composed blockbuster hits Avengers: Age of Ultron, Furious 7, Iron Man 3, and Thor: The Dark World. He conducted the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia of London, and the Hollywood Studio Symphony for those films. He also scored Eagle Eye for producer Steven Spielberg, and the recent Fate of the Furious which had the biggest global box office opening of all time. He was nominated for a 2014 BAFTA Award and was inducted into the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2010. His films have grossed $12 billion worldwide.
Tyler began scoring features shortly after he received his master's degree from Harvard University, as well as a bachelor's degree from UCLA. He is a multi-instrumentalist and plays piano, guitar, drums, bass, cello, world percussion, synth programming, guitarviol, charango, and bouzouki, amongst others as being a synth programmer. He showcased many of those instruments for the retro heist film Now You See Me and its sequel about a team of illusionists.
Tyler arranged and conducted the new film logo music for Universal Pictures and composed a theme for the 100-year anniversary of the studio, as well as composing the music for the Marvel Studios logo. He also scored The Expendables films, and Rambo, directed by Sylvester Stallone; the crime drama Law Abiding Citizen , the 2017 hit Power Rangers and the science fiction film Battle Los Angeles. Tyler’s score for Bill Paxton’s
Frailty won him a World Soundtrack Award in 2002, as well as The World Soundtrack Award as Best New Film Composer of the Year. He has received three Emmy Award nominations, 26 BMI Music Awards, five ASCAP Music Awards, and recently won 12 Goldspirit Awards, including Composer of the Year.
After composing the score for The Hunted for Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin, Tyler composed the score for the turn-of-the-century drama The Greatest Game Ever Played , starring Shia LaBeouf. His soundtrack for Children of Dune reached #4 on the Amazon album charts while Avengers: Age of Ultron, Furious 7, Thor: The Dark World, Iron Man 3, and Fast Five all hit #1 on the iTunes soundtrack charts.
In 2014, Tyler scored the Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and also wrote the theme song “Shell Shocked” which he wrote and produced under his electronic music alter ego Madsonik. The song featured Wiz Khalifa and Kill the Noise and is a certified gold record by RIAA. He collaborated with Tom Morello on the hit song “Divebomb” for “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage.”
Tyler also created the new theme music for ESPN’s NFL shows in 2014 as well composing the theme for the U.S. Open Championships now airing annually on FOX.
Tyler wrote the score for the feature film Truth , which opened in theaters in October 2015 and stars Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes and Robert Redford as Dan Rather. For television, his credits include the series “Scorpion,” “Hawaii Five-0,” and “Sleepy Hollow,” for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music in 2014. He also received Emmy nominations for Last Call and Transformers: Prime. He most recently wrote the music for the new epic scripted dramatic series “Yellowstone” starring Kevin Costner and written and directed by Taylor Sheridan which premiered on Paramount Network on June 20, 2018.
In May 2016, Tyler made his debut headlining concert conducting his film music with the Philharmonia Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall in London.
Tyler recently scored The Mummy starring Tom Cruise which opened in June 2017 and Crazy Rich Asians which opened August 15, 2018. He also wrote the new Formula 1 theme for global broadcast which debuted this season in late March.
JOHN CAREY (Composer) is a young composer who has been a part of the LA film scoring community since 2011. Well known for bridging the gap between traditional dramatic orchestration and modern minimalism, he has a diverse background in films, TV and video games as a composer, orchestrator, music arranger and programmer.
Since 2013 Carey has worked prominently under the mentorship of veteran composers Brian Tyler and Keith Power writing musical arrangements, working on films like Crazy Rich Asians, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Fate of the Furious, The Mummy and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , and in TV for CBS’ Magyver and Hawaii Five-O series.
Carey is a graduate of Capital University and The University of Southern California. He was one of 12 worldwide participants selected for the prestigious 2016 ASCAP Television and Film Scoring workshop with Richard Bellis. He was born in Columbus, Ohio.
