
Age: 52
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Rian Craig Johnson (born December 17, 1973) is an American filmmaker. He made his directorial debut with the neo-noir mystery film Brick (2005), which received positive reviews and grossed nearly $4 million on a $450,000 budget. Transitioning to higher-profile films, Johnson achieved mainstream recognition for writing and directing the science-fiction thriller Looper (2012) to critical and commercial success. Johnson landed his largest project when he wrote and directed the space opera Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), which grossed over $1 billion. He returned to the mystery genre with Knives Out (2019) and its sequel Glass Onion (2022), both of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, respectively. Additionally, Johnson is also known for directing three highly acclaimed episodes for the television series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), namely "Ozymandias," "Fly," and "Fifty-One"; for the latter, he received the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing—Drama Series in 2013. He also created a murder mystery series titled Poker Face for Peacock with Natasha Lyonne. Johnson was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rian Johnson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Rian Johnson

Director
for Director in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Pym Particles - Phase 2 Film 3 (My MCU)
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Synopsis: Successful scientists and happy couple Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne have long worked on a project they call 'Pym Particles'. Blood, sweat and tears are consumed before the couple finally manages to finish the project. Janet signed up as a test subject, and when the test is run, Janet shrinks drastically. Hank injects himself after the success of the first test of Pym Particles, and just like his wife, he shrinks dramatically. The couple trains with their newfound powers the following days. Eventually, they get a grip on how to use their powers, and they decide to use their powers to save people. They design costumes and now, they save the city under the aliases Ant-Man and Wasp. Millionaire and founder of Cross Technologies Darren Cross suddenly becomes seriously ill. Doctors say that Cross only has a few days left to live. Darren comes in contact with a certain Elihas Starr who promises him a cure for his illness in exchange for killing both Ant-Man and Wasp. Elihas is a former Pym Technologies worker, one of the few people who know everything about Pym Particles. His interest in this invention drove him crazy and he started spying on Hank Pym. When Hank found out about this he became angry and began to treat Elihas worse than he had done before. Hank started abusing him, before eventually firing Elihas.