Josh Stolberg

American film director

Josh Stolberg is an American film director, screenwriter, and photographer. Stolberg is known for comedies, such as the film Good Luck Chuck, starring Dane Cook, Jessica Alba and Dan Fogler.^[1]^[2]

Career

He won the Seashore Award and the Queen Spirit Award as a director of the film The Life Coach. He also wrote and directed the 2005 film Kids in America,^[3] and made a cameo appearance as a security guard in the film. He was also a part of the writing team for the first two episodes of Book 1: Water of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

He also branched into horror films, penning the remakes Piranha 3D (directed by Alexandre Aja) and Sorority Row. He co-wrote the scripts for several entries in the long-running Saw franchise, such as Jigsaw, Spiral^[4] and Saw X.^[5]^[6] Among his projects in development are the adaptation of the book The Spellman Files, to be produced by Laura Ziskin; Man-Witch (to be directed by Todd Phillips^[7]) as well as the adaptation of the book The Candy Shop War.

Filmography

Year	Film
Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer
2005	Kids in America	Yes	Yes	No
2005	The Life Coach	Yes	No	No
2007	Good Luck Chuck	No	Yes	No
2009	Sorority Row	No	Yes	No
2010	Piranha 3D	No	Yes	No
2011	Conception	Yes	Yes	Yes
2013	Crawlspace	Yes	Yes	No
2013	Feels So Good	Yes	No	Executive
2014	The Hungover Games	Yes	No	No
2017	Jigsaw	No	Yes	No
2021	Spiral: From the Book of Saw	No	Yes	No
2023	Saw X	No	Yes	No

Co-producer

Piranha 3DD (2012)

References

^ Roger Ebert (20 September 2007). "Good Luck Chuck". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 16 October 2007.
^ "Snarky Snippets From 2007 Movie Reviews". The Washington Post. December 29, 2007. Retrieved 3 May 2010.
^ Ebert, Roger (October 20, 2005). "A teen comedy with brains". Retrieved August 14, 2021.
^ Miska, Brad (May 13, 2021). "Peter Goldfinger & Josh Stolberg On "Spiral: From The Book Of Saw"". CreativeScreenwriting. Archived from the original on July 9, 2021. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
^ Miska, Brad (April 8, 2021). "'Saw' Franchise Targets Milestone Tenth Film as Development is Underway". Bloody Disgusting. Archived from the original on April 19, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
^ Squires, Josh (December 15, 2021). "'Spiral' Writer Josh Stolberg Says the Next 'Saw' Movie Will "Make John Kramer Fans Very Happy"". Bloody Disgusting. Archived from the original on December 12, 2022.
^ https://movieweb.com/jack-black-and-todd-phillips-team-for-man-witch/