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Zak Penn is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Thanks American born on 23 march 1968

Zak Penn

Zak Penn
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Nationality USA
Birth 23 march 1968 (56 years)

Zak Penn (born 1968) is an American screenwriter and director. Penn wrote and directed Incident at Loch Ness, The Grand, and co-wrote the script for X-Men: The Last Stand. With Michael Karnow, Penn is the co-creator of the TV series Alphas on the Syfy network.

Best films

The Avengers
The Avengers
(2012)
(Story) Ready Player One
Ready Player One
(2018)
(Ecrivain) Transformers: The Last Knight
Transformers: The Last Knight
(2017)
(Writer) X-Men: The Last Stand
X-Men: The Last Stand
(2006)
(Writer) X2
X2
(2003)
(Story) Antz
Antz
(1998)
(Story Consultant)

Usually with

Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
(2 films)
Stan Lee
Stan Lee
(5 films)
Avi Arad
Avi Arad
(6 films)
John Bailey
John Bailey
(1 films)
Jeff Bowler
Jeff Bowler
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Zak Penn (20 films)

Display filmography as list

Actor

Incident at Loch Ness
Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
, 1h34
Directed by Zak Penn
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Documentary, Adventure, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Kitana Baker, Werner Herzog, Ricky Jay, Gabriel Beristain, Crispin Glover, Jeff Goldblum
Roles Self
Rating64% 3.2425153.2425153.2425153.2425153.242515
After a mysterious shot of a body floating in Loch Ness (reprised near the end), Incident at Loch Ness flashes back to the beginning of a documentary called Herzog In Wonderland being directed by John Bailey with an overview of Herzog's work as he himself begins work for a separate documentary to be called Enigma of Loch Ness, in which he is exploring the Loch Ness Monster myth. Throughout the film, Herzog asserts the Loch Ness Monster is merely a creation of a collective psychological need in society.
Osmosis Jones
Osmosis Jones (2001)
, 1h35
Directed by Frères Farrelly, Tom Sito, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Crime, Animation
Themes Medical-themed films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, David Hyde Pierce, Brandy, William Shatner, Molly Shannon
Roles docteur salle d'urgence n° 3
Rating63% 3.1523653.1523653.1523653.1523653.152365
Frank Detorre (Bill Murray) is a widowed slovenly zookeeper at the Sucat Memorial Zoo in Rhode Island. Much to the frustration of his young daughter, Shane (Elena Franklin), he eats compulsively unhealthy and has minimal concern for germs or disease. While trying to eat a hard-boiled egg with mayonnaise and salt, it is stolen from him by a chimpanzee. He gets it back, but not before it falls into the filth of the chimp's habitat. When Shane is disgusted by him about to eat it he uses the "ten second rule" as a justification for the unsanitary act.
Chuck & Buck
Chuck & Buck (2000)
, 1h36
Directed by Miguel Arteta
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Chris Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros, Mike White, Paul Weitz, Maya Rudolph, Paul Sand
Roles Josh Weintraub
Rating65% 3.2958853.2958853.2958853.2958853.295885
Buck O'Brien (Mike White) is a 27-year-old amateur playwright with the maturity level of an adolescent. When Buck's mother dies unexpectedly, he invites his close childhood friend Chuck (Chris Weitz) to the funeral. Chuck (who is now calling himself "Charlie") is a successful music industry exec with a fiancée, Carlyn (Beth Colt). He and Buck experimented sexually with each other when they were 11, but Charlie has repressed these memories and acts as if they had not occurred. Chuck had moved away while they were still children, and Buck has pined after him ever since. During their awkward reunion, Buck makes a sexual advance on Charlie in the bathroom. Charlie rebuffs him, and returns to Los Angeles with Carlyn, but not before extending an obligatory invitation for Buck to visit him there. Buck then withdraws $10,000 from his bank account, packs up his car, and takes up residence in a motel in Los Angeles. He also begins scripting a play on a yellow legal pad: titled "Hank and Frank and the Witch", it is an obvious plea for Charlie's love.
Star Maps
Star Maps (1997)
, 1h26
Directed by Miguel Arteta
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Douglas Spain, Martha Veléz, Robin Thomas, Zak Penn, Mike White, Michael Peña
Roles Carmel County Writer
Rating56% 2.8036252.8036252.8036252.8036252.803625
This allegorical tale concerns the gap that exists between East and West Los Angeles as Latino kids try to pursue the American Dream. After five years of living in Mexico, an 18-year-old youth returns to Los Angeles with aspirations of becoming a movie star. At the urging of his father, a pimp who sells maps to stars' homes as a cover, the young man turns to hustling as a way to meet Hollywood insiders. Things start to look up when he hooks up with the producer of the popular daytime soap opera Carmel County. However his overbearing father and his mentally unstable mother threaten to get in the way of his dreams.
PCU
PCU (1994)
, 1h19
Directed by Hart Bochner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jeremy Piven, David Spade, Chris Young, Jon Favreau, Megan Ward, Alex Désert
Roles Bathroom Patron
Rating64% 3.247523.247523.247523.247523.24752
Preppy pre-freshman (pre-frosh) Tom Lawrence (Chris Young) visits PCU (Port Chester University), a college where fraternities have been outlawed and political correctness is rampant on campus. During his visit, accident-prone Tom manages to make enemies with nearly every group of students, and thus spends much of his visit evading the growing mob of students upset with him.

Director

The Grand
The Grand (2007)
, 1h44
Directed by Zak Penn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Jeu, Poker
Actors Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines, David Cross, Mike Epps, Chris Parnell, Richard Kind
Rating59% 2.950762.950762.950762.950762.95076
Jack Faro (Harrelson) is a recovering drug addict who had so many relapses, he decided to move into rehab and just live there. Having been married 75 times, he is a serial husband and is always on the lookout for number 76. (He hits on a bartender who informs him that they had already been married, even though he has no idea who she is.). He enters The Grand: a huge Texas Hold 'Em poker tournament in Las Vegas created by his grandfather Lucky Faro (Barry Corbin). His main motivation is to win the $10 million prize to cover a loan he got to keep open his family's casino, The Rabbit's Foot, which his grandfather left him when he died and that he has mismanaged into the ground.
Incident at Loch Ness
Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
, 1h34
Directed by Zak Penn
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Documentary, Adventure, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Kitana Baker, Werner Herzog, Ricky Jay, Gabriel Beristain, Crispin Glover, Jeff Goldblum
Rating64% 3.2425153.2425153.2425153.2425153.242515
After a mysterious shot of a body floating in Loch Ness (reprised near the end), Incident at Loch Ness flashes back to the beginning of a documentary called Herzog In Wonderland being directed by John Bailey with an overview of Herzog's work as he himself begins work for a separate documentary to be called Enigma of Loch Ness, in which he is exploring the Loch Ness Monster myth. Throughout the film, Herzog asserts the Loch Ness Monster is merely a creation of a collective psychological need in society.

Scriptwriter

Free Guy
Free Guy (2021)

Directed by Shawn Levy
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about computing, Jeu
Actors Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Taika Waititi, Channing Tatum, Alex Trebek
Roles Ecrivain
Rating71% 3.553883.553883.553883.553883.55388
Guy travaille au guichet d'une banque. Lors d'un braquage, il tue l'un des assaillants et découvre qu'il est un personnage non-joueur dans le monde ouvert du jeu vidéo Free City, mélange entre Grand Theft Auto et Fortnite. Il va alors commencer à prendre sa vie en main et devenir un héros dans ce monde sans limites.
Ready Player One
Ready Player One (2018)
, 2h20
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about computing, Jeu, Films set in the future, Films about video games
Actors Olivia Cooke, Tye Sheridan, Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Hannah John-Kamen
Roles Ecrivain
Rating74% 3.7030053.7030053.7030053.7030053.703005
En 2045, le monde est en proie à de nombreux soucis : crise énergétique, désastre causé par le changement climatique, la famine, la pauvreté, la guerre, etc. Dans ce monde chaotique, l'OASIS est un système mondial de réalité virtuelle, accessible par l'intermédiaire de visiocasques et de dispositifs haptiques tels que des gants et des combinaisons. Conçu à l'origine comme un jeu de rôle en ligne massivement multijoueur (MMORPG), il est devenu au fil du temps une véritable société virtuelle dont toute l'humanité se sert comme exutoire. Son créateur, James Halliday, était l'un des hommes les plus riches et populaires au monde, avant son décès. À sa mort, une vidéo est diffusée dans laquelle il explique qu'il léguera son immense fortune, 500 milliards de dollars, ainsi que sa société, GSS, à la personne qui réussira à trouver l’easter egg (« œuf de Pâques ») caché dans l'OASIS. Wade Watts, un jeune orphelin de 18 ans vivant à Columbus, est un fin connaisseur de Halliday et de l'OASIS, via son avatar Parzival, Wade va tout tenter pour trouver l’œuf. Il devra faire face à la multinationale Innovative Online Industries (IOI) et son PDG, Nolan Sorrento, prêt à tout pour prendre le contrôle du monde virtuel. Wade pourra compter sur l'aide de plusieurs alliés dans l'OASIS, notamment la mystérieuse Art3mis.
Transformers: The Last Knight
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
, 2h29
Directed by Michael Bay
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Jeu, Films about toys, Robot films
Actors Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, John Goodman, Gemma Chan
Roles Writer
Rating52% 2.614572.614572.614572.614572.61457
Les humains sont en guerre contre les Transformers. Optimus a disparu. Cade Yeager, Bumblebee, un Lord et une aristocrate professeur d'Oxford faisant partie des Witwiccans s'allient pour contrer la menace qui arrive. Optimus est de retour changé en Némésis Prime par Quintessa, la créatrice des Transformers qui cherche à s'emparer du bâton de Merlin pour tuer la Terre, Unicron. Car la survie de l'humanité réside dans l'histoire cachée des Transformers sur Terre remontant à la légende arthurienne.
The Avengers
The Avengers (2012)
, 2h23
Directed by Joss Whedon
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in the future, Hulk (comics) films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Lee Renner
Roles Story
Rating77% 3.863073.863073.863073.863073.86307
The Asgardian Loki encounters the Other, the leader of an extraterrestrial race known as the Chitauri. In exchange for retrieving the Tesseract, a powerful energy source of unknown potential, the Other promises Loki an army with which he can subjugate Earth. Nick Fury, director of the espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., and his lieutenant Agent Maria Hill arrive at a remote research facility during an evacuation, where physicist Dr. Erik Selvig is leading a research team experimenting on the Tesseract. Agent Phil Coulson explains that the object has begun radiating an unusual form of energy. The Tesseract suddenly activates and opens a wormhole, allowing Loki to reach Earth. Loki takes the Tesseract and uses his scepter to enslave Selvig and a couple of agents, including Clint Barton, to aid him in his getaway.
The Incredible Hulk
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
, 1h54
Directed by Louis Leterrier
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Hulk (comics) films, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Children's films
Actors Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Ty Burrell
Roles Screenstory
Rating65% 3.2957253.2957253.2957253.2957253.295725
At Culver University in Virginia, General Thunderbolt Ross meets with Dr. Bruce Banner, the colleague and boyfriend of his daughter Betty, regarding an experiment that Ross claims is meant to make humans immune to gamma radiation. The experiment — part of a World War II era "super soldier" program that Ross hopes to recreate — fails, and the exposure to gamma radiation causes Banner to transform into the Hulk for brief periods of time, whenever his heart rate rises above 200. The Hulk destroys the lab and injures or kills the people inside. Banner becomes a fugitive from the U.S. military and Ross in particular, who wants to weaponize the Hulk process.
The Grand
The Grand (2007)
, 1h44
Directed by Zak Penn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Jeu, Poker
Actors Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines, David Cross, Mike Epps, Chris Parnell, Richard Kind
Roles Writer
Rating59% 2.950762.950762.950762.950762.95076
Jack Faro (Harrelson) is a recovering drug addict who had so many relapses, he decided to move into rehab and just live there. Having been married 75 times, he is a serial husband and is always on the lookout for number 76. (He hits on a bartender who informs him that they had already been married, even though he has no idea who she is.). He enters The Grand: a huge Texas Hold 'Em poker tournament in Las Vegas created by his grandfather Lucky Faro (Barry Corbin). His main motivation is to win the $10 million prize to cover a loan he got to keep open his family's casino, The Rabbit's Foot, which his grandfather left him when he died and that he has mismanaged into the ground.
X-Men: The Last Stand
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
, 1h44
Directed by Brett Ratner
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Children's films
Actors Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Kelsey Grammer
Roles Writer
Rating65% 3.2983753.2983753.2983753.2983753.298375
Twenty years ago, Professor Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr meet young Jean Grey at her parents' house to invite her to join their school. Ten years later, the industrialist father of Warren Worthington III discovers his son is a mutant as Warren tries to cut off his wings.
Elektra
Elektra (2005)
, 1h33
Directed by Rob S. Bowman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Martial arts, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Children's films
Actors Jennifer Garner, Kirsten Prout, Goran Višnjić, Will Yun Lee, Terence Stamp, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Roles Writer
Rating47% 2.35362.35362.35362.35362.3536
After being killed in Daredevil, Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner) is revived by a blind martial arts master called Stick (Terence Stamp). She is brought to his training compound to learn Kimagure, an ancient martial arts discipline that provides its practitioners with precognition as well as the ability to resurrect the dead. Elektra is soon expelled because of her inability to let go of her rage. She leaves and uses her training to become a contract killer.