Kurt Wimmer

Kurt Wimmer
Born	1964 (age 51–52)
Occupation	film director, film producer, screenwriter

Kurt Wimmer (born 1964) is an American screenwriter, film producer and film director.

Biography

He attended the University of South Florida and graduated with a BFA degree in Art History. He then moved to Los Angeles where he worked for 12 years as a screenwriter before making his 2002 film, Equilibrium.^[1] In numerous interviews he cites Equilibrium as his directorial debut and first film, in which he also has a cameo role as a practitioner of the fictional martial art Gun Kata; however his actual directorial debut was the 1995 action film One Tough Bastard, starring Brian Bosworth and Bruce Payne.

Filmography

Year	Title	Credited as				Notes
		Director	Producer	Writer	Actor
1995	One Tough Bastard	Yes	No	No	No
1998	Sphere	No	No	Yes	No	Wrote adaptation from novel by Michael Crichton
1999	The Thomas Crown Affair	No	No	Yes	No
2002	Equilibrium	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Cameo as rebel victim
2003	The Recruit	No	No	Yes	No
2006	Ultraviolet	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Cameo as a hemophage
2008	Street Kings	No	No	Yes	No
2009	Law Abiding Citizen	No	Yes	Yes	No
2010	Salt	No	No	Yes	No
2012	Total Recall	No	No	Yes	No
2015	Point Break	No	Yes	Yes	No
TBD	Salt 2	No	No	Yes	No

References

1. Interview at equilibriumfans.com

External links

• Kurt Wimmer at the Internet Movie Database
• 10 Questions with Kurt Wimmer
• Kurt Wimmer at 2005 UFA Conference