Hollywood Filmmaker Jordan Vogt Roberts

Jordan Vogt-Roberts is an American film and television director hailing from the ashes of Detroit.

His most recent feature, KONG: SKULL ISLAND premiered to incredible box office numbers in March 2017. Starring Tom Hiddleston, Academy-Award winner Brie Larson, John C. Reilly and John Goodman, the film is set in the 1970’s and is a unique re imagining of the King Kong mythos based on Vogt-Roberts’ original pitch to the studio.

Vogt-Roberts began his feature career with the film, THE KINGS OF SUMMER, which he directed. The film premiered in competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim.

The very next year in 2014, Vogt-Roberts was back at Sundance as a producer and director for the world premiere of Nick Offerman's Netflix concert film “NICK OFFERMAN: AMERICAN HAM".

Prior to the success of THE KINGS OF SUMMER, Vogt-Roberts directed the short film SUCCESSFUL ALCOHOLICS, starring Lizzy Caplan, Nick Kroll and Tony Hale. The film debuted at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and subsequently screened at more than 30 festivals worldwide including South By Southwest and AFI.

On the television and web side, Vogt-Roberts created and directed the incredibly visual-minded Comedy Central television series “Mash Up” in 2011. He also directed Stephen Falk's pilot “You're the Worst,” which is now a hit original series on FX Networks entering its fourth season.

Jordan Vogt-Roberts Director also creates web and commercial content for Ridley Scott's RSA productions where he has also directed award-winning projects that have reached millions of viewers. This includes a recent campaign for Audi starring Claire Danes and a PSA with Arnold Schwarzenegger crushing cars in his M47 Patton tank, which got over 10 million views in one day and raised over $1 million for charity. Vogt-Roberts’early work in web content with comedians like Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanjiani, Hannibal Buress and Pete Holmes helped lay the groundwork for current online content creation and distribution models.

He is currently attached to direct the video game adaption METAL GEAR SOLID for Sony pictures and uses his free time to help with a non-profit called the Detroit Creativity Project that offers improve free of charge in Detroit public schools.