Robert Zemeckis Signs With CAA
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis has signed with CAA, and has moved his production company ImageMovers to the agency as well.
Zemeckis had most recently been repped by WME, but he has a long history with CAA. He built his star there, repped by Jack Rapke, who left to become the filmmaker’s producing partner at ImageMovers.
Zemeckis is currently in post-production on The Last Mrs. Parrish at Netflix. The film stars Jennifer Lopez and Isabel May, from a screenplay by Andrea Berloff, with Nuyorican Productions producing alongside ImageMovers.
Aside from his Oscar winner Forrest Gump, Zemeckis’ legendary credit list includes the Back to the Future trilogy, Cast Away, Flight, Contact, Romancing The Stone, Death Becomes Her, What Life Beneath, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Polar Express, Beowulf, A Christmas Carol, The Walk, Allie, Pinocchio and Used Cars.
Zemeckis won Best Director for Forrest Gump, the film that also won Best Picture, with Tom Hanks receiving Best Actor and Eric Roth winning Best Adapted Screenplay.
Zemeckis most recently directed HERE, reuniting Hanks and Wright from a screenplay by Roth.
Zemeckis and Rapke founded ImageMovers in 1997, and feature credits include Real Steel, Finch, Matchstick Man, The Frighteners, Last Holiday, Monster House and Mars Needs Moms. Company’s TV credits include Showtime’s The Borgias, Manifest for NBC and Netflix, Medal of Honor for Netflix, Project Blue Book for History, and What/If for Netflix.
Zemeckis and ImageMovers continue to be represented by Harold Brown, Bruce Ramer, and Cheryl Snow at Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.
