(written from a Production point of view)
David Ellison (born 9 January 1983; age 41) is an actor and film producer who worked as Executive Producer on Star Trek Into Darkness. [1] Ellison founded the production company Skydance Productions in 2006 and collaborated with Paramount Pictures on several feature films. Ellison is also Executive Producer on Star Trek Beyond.
Ellison is the son of billionaire software mogul Larry Ellison. He started acting in 2005 when he played a student in the comedy The Chumscrubber. The same year he wrote, directed, produced and starred in the short thriller When All Else Fails. Further acting work includes the drama Flyboys (2006), the television thriller Blank Slate (2008, with Clancy Brown and Richard Cox), the comedy Little Fish, Strange Pond (2009, with Don McManus and Paul Lacovara), the Leverage episode "The Three Strikes Job" (2010, with Jeri Ryan and Mark Sheppard), and Hole in One (2010, with Rico E. Anderson).
After he produced the shorts films The Sound of Football (2004) and Somebody Else (2005), Ellison worked as executive producer for Skydance Productions on True Grit (2010), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011, with Simon Pegg), The Guilt Trip (2012, with Adam Scott and Brett Cullen), G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2012, with Dwayne Johnson), World War Z (2012), and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2013, starring Chris Pine, with David Paymer). He also worked as producer on Jack Reacher (2012, with Nicole Forester).
More recent projects as producer include Terminator Genisys (2015), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), Geostorm (2016), and the television series Manhattan (2014, with Mark Moses) and Grace and Frankie (2015). Later projects were Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016), Africa, and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Forbes magazine reported on 3 Apr 2024 that Ellison's company Skydance Productions was in talks to buy a controlling stake in Paramount Global, the company that produces all current Star Trek series and movies excepting Prodigy. [2]
External links[]
- David Ellison at Wikipedia
- David Ellison at the Internet Movie Database
- Skydance.com – official company site