Jason Keller

JASON KELLER has penned a handful of feature screenplays that quickly attracted Hollywood‘s most desired talent and served to establish him as a go-to writer of muscular, character-driven projects. With Melissa Wallack, he wrote the Mirror, Mirror starred Julia Roberts, Sean Bean and Lily Collins.

Keller also wrote the tentatively titled Go Like Hell, his adaptation of A.J. Baime‘s Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. The book chronicles the exciting 1966 rivalry as Ford tried to unseat Ferrari as the dominant player on the international race circuit.

Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Keller was attending Ball State University when a professor recommended him for a yearlong theater and film studies program at Regents College in London. There, he studied old Westerns and wrote and directed plays.

After the program, Keller dropped out of college and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a writing career. Success eluded him for many years and in that time he worked in almost every capacity of film production: as a grip, a gaffer, an assistant and countless other jobs the aspiring writer was happy to take in order to soak up the filmmaking experience.

Keller wrote the screen adaptation of Justin Cronin‘s epic 2009 novel The Passage for 20 th Century Fox. Matt Reeves, director of Cloverfield and Let Me In, has been developing the project and chose Keller as his collaborator. The story is set in the future, after a government experiment to lengthen human life spans turns people into vampires.

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