Louis Leterrier

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Louis Leterrier in Paris in July 2008.

Louis Leterrier (born June 17, 1973 in Paris, France) is a French film director whose notable films include Transporter 2, starring Jason Statham, and Danny the Dog, a thriller starring Jet Li and Morgan Freeman.

In July 2006, Marvel Studios announced that Leterrier would direct the new The Incredible Hulk film.^[1]

Leterrier is a friend of Luc Besson, and has collaborated with him on several projects.

[edit] Biography

Son of director, François Leterrier, and guided artistically by his mother, Louis Leterrier is at first a drummer of a music group before experimenting with short films. At the age of 18, after some training in advertising and publicity, he left France to study cinema at the Tisch School of the Arts at the University of New York.

In 1997, he assisted Jean-Pierre Jeunet on the set of Alien: Ressurrection. On returning to France, he worked with Luc Besson on the production of commercials for Internet Club and L'Oréal and the film Joan of Arc. He also collaborated, as the second assistant director, with Alain Chabat on the production of Astérix and Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre (2002).

Later in 2002, Louis Leterrier worked as artistic director of Corey Yuen's The Transporter, an action movie starring Jason Statham. He later enters "the stable" Besson, alongside Chris Nahon and Pierre Morel, and directs Jet Li in Danny the Dog, his debut feature, a full-length martial arts film (2004). Luc Besson then entrusts him with directorial control of The Transporter 2, set this time in Miami.

In 2008, as part of the current wave of the French directors engaged by Hollywood, he directs his first big-budget American film, The Incredible Hulk. He is currently preparing a remake of Clash of the Titans, from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, produced by Warner Bros, scheduled for release in 2010.