Directing duo John Francis Daley (you know him from Freaks and Geeks and Bones) and Jonathan Goldstein made their feature film directing debut with the thoroughly mediocre Vacation, and Game Night is a significant step up but I'm not sure that has a lot to do with them.
The comedic sensibility of
directing duo John Requa and Glenn Ficarra is a bit hard to pin down.
Not exact matches
Enter the
directing duo of
John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, who take the premise up a notch with real - life kidnappings, real - life gangsters, and real - life dangers which all fall on the heads of the suburban characters involved.
There's a morbid undercurrent to Game Night, which was
directed by
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the
duo behind the Vacation remake, and written by Mark Perez.
Ever since the success of
John Wick, the
directing duo has seen their to - do list balloon to include such high - profile projects as Bloodshot and
John Wick 2.
While the film had found a VOD release through DirecTV three years ago, this marks the first official release for the pic that introduced the world to
John Erick Dowdle and his brother Drew, the
duo who went on to
direct M. Night Shyamalan's Devil, Quarantine and even the criminally underrated As Above, So Below.
The brotherly writing /
directing duo of Drew and
John Erick Dowdle (Devil, Quarantine) sit at the illustrious helm of As Above, So Below, where the plot jumps off in a much more promising place than it ultimately takes us.
The
duo join the already announced David Oyelowo (Selma), Gugu Mbatha - Raw (Concussion),
John Krasinski (13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi), Elizabeth Debicki (The Night Manager) and Daniel Bruhl (Captain America: Civil War) in the film, which is being
directed by Julius Onah (The Girl is in Trouble).
The film is being
directed by Crazy, Stupid, Love
duo Glenn Ficarra and
John Requa, who worked with Margot on upcoming crime drama Focus, starring her as a confidence trickster who teams up with another conman, played by Will Smith.
Jesse Plemons is also on board to topline with Jonathan Goldstein and
John Francis Daley — the
directing duo behind the 2015 comedy «Vacation» — helming the movie.
While two of them have yet to
direct any additional films, the other two are
John Musker and Ron Clements, the
duo that has since helmed The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, and, most recently, The Princess and the Frog.
«Game Night» is
directed by the writing /
directing team of
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein and it seems to be a creative breakthrough for the
duo, especially after their debut, the very embarrassing «Vacation» reboot, a slog that was nostalgic in all the wrong ways.