The writer, producer and director Matthew george reeves, was born on April 27, 1966 in Rockville Center (New York), in the United States.
Contemporary and friend of JJ Abrams since he was young, Reeves He is part of that generation of filmmakers of the late 1990s who worked hard to achieve a profound revamp of the mechanics of American television.
He began touring small movies in super 8 when he was not yet ten years old, debuting as a professional director with the episode. Mr. Petrified Forest, included in the collective film “Future Shock” (1994).
His script for the film “Maximum Alert 2” (1995), starring Steven Seagal, opened the doors of commercial cinema for him, enabling him to film his first romantic comedy “El funebrero”, which he directed in 1996 and starred David Schwimmer and Julie Gwyneth Paltrow.
During the following decade, Reeves he dedicated himself to television, first directing an episode of each of the series “Relativity“,”Homicide, Life on the Street” Y “Gideon’s Crossing“; and then creating, with his friend Abrams, the famous series”Felicity“(1998 – 2002), of which he directed six episodes, including the pilot, was executive producer of 60 episodes and screenwriter of 84 episodes of the series. Produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, the four seasons of the series that relate the life of Felicity Porter (Keri Russell), soon became a cult object for fans of the genre. The only cinematic experience of this decade was the script for James Gray’s second film, “The Yards” (2000).
Again from the hand of JJ Abrams, in the role of producer, Reeves returned to the cinema directing the successful “Cloverfield” (2008), a memorable science fiction film. From the alien monster of “Cloverfield” he passed to the eternal myth of the vampire, this time in a modern key, with “Let Me In” (2010), an Anglo-American co-production inspired by the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist.