Biografie
Basil Iwanyk is the founder and owner of Thunder Road Pictures. His films have collectively grossed $1.8 billion worldwide. Titles include the epic action-adventure Clash of the Titans and its sequel Wrath of the Titans, all three installments of The Expendables, Brooklyn's Finest, We Are Marshall and Firewall. Iwanyk also produced the critically acclaimed drama The Town, directed by Ben Affleck.
Also Iwanyk's release is the fantasy adventure Seventh Son, directed by Academy Award® nominee Sergei Bodrov. The film stars Academy Award® winner Jeff Bridges and Academy Award® nominee Julianne Moore.
Iwanyk produced film Gods of Egypt, for Summit/Lionsgate. The film is directed by Alex Proyas, with stars Geoffrey Rush, Gerard Butler and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Also in the pipeline are Alive Alone, starring Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba and Sam Worthington, and Splinter Cell, a feature version of the highly successful video game, starring Tom Hardy.
After graduating from Villanova University, Iwanyk began his film career as an agent trainee at United Talent Agency. He joined Warner Bros. Pictures as a creative executive in 1995, and was promoted to vice president of production two years later. During his tenure at the studio, Iwanyk was involved in the development and production of films such as Antoine Fuqua's crime drama Training Day, starring Denzel Washington in an Oscar®-winning performance; Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven; and Christopher Nolan's Insomnia.
In 2000 Iwanyk became president of worldwide production at Intermedia Films. There, he would oversee a wide variety of projects, including Kathryn Bigelow's K-19: The Widowmaker, Jonathan Mostow's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Spike Jonze's Oscar® winner Adaptation and Phillip Noyce's Oscar® nominee The Quiet American. Following his time at Intermedia, he founded Thunder Road Pictures in 2004.
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