Douglas Eric "Doug" Liman (born July 24, 1965) is an American film director and producer best known for Swingers (1996), The Bourne Identity (2002), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Jumper (2008), Fair Game (2010), and Edge of Tomorrow (2014).
MTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker, Shorty Industry Award for Best Use of Gamification
Nominations
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, Independent Spirit Award for Best Director, European Film Award for Best Non-European Film, Shorty Industry Award for Best in Television
Movies
Edge of Tomorrow, The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Jumper, American Made, Swingers, Fair Game, Go, Getting In, The Killing Floor, Gambit, Acting 101, The Wall, Everest
TV Shows
Captive
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Trademark
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Use of characters doubling as spies or agents
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Use of humor in unusual settings
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Prevalent use of Steadicam shots
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Quote
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Edge of Tomorrow was such an ambitious movie and a personal one. It was a labor of love for us all.
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Paris is very close to my heart. It's the most beautiful city in the world, but on Edge of Tomorrow I got to showcase it in a completely different light.
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[people turning up for a wet film premiere of Edge of Tomorrow at 5am] It's a testament to Tom Cruise's star power.
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[Tom Cruise] People forget that behind the celebrity, he's a brilliant actor who's been in some of our favorite movies. He's extraordinarily talented and his range is incredible.
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[on Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow (2014)] Tom innately understands that audiences come to the theatre not to watch a god but to see a good movie, and he will do everything in his power to make the film as great as possible. Nobody takes the trust of the audience more sacredly than him. When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect, basically a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan. Tom is thinking how it will play with the entire planet Earth.
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I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.
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The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.
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Fact
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He liked Edge of Tomorrow (2014) because he got to reshoot the same scenes until he got them right, a result of the film being set in a time warp.
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He wanted to do Edge of Tomorrow (2014) because it showed a role Tom Cruise hadn't done yet; someone very bad at what they do.
During Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Emily Blunt took Liman and Tom Cruise out for karaoke one night; she terrified Liman by getting to see her in that different light.
His father, Arthur L. Liman, was one of the prosecutors in the Iran-Contra Affair (in The Bourne Identity (2002), Liman portrays a likewise agency within agency...).
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Lives in Tribeca area of Manhattan, New York City.
As of 2001, Vice Chairman of the production company HYPNOTIC.
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Originally did not want to cast Scott Wolf in Go (1999) because Katie Holmes was already in the movie, and he did not want the movie to star two television actors. However, he saw him talking in a hallway with Jay Mohr and realized that the chemistry between the two would be good in the movie.
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Attended and graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television (1992).
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Attended and graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (1988).
$50 Million
