Drew Pearce

Drew Pearce
Born	(1975-08-24) 24 August 1975
Occupation	Writer, producer, director

Drew Pearce (born 24 August 1975) is a British film writer, director and producer. He is best known for co-writing Iron Man 3, and writing the story to Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.

Life and career

Drew is best known as creator of No Heroics, the cult hit^[1] British TV comedy about off-duty superheroes for ITV2, and for writing the Marvel film Iron Man 3, starring Robert Downey, Jr.^[2] He also wrote and directed the acclaimed^[3] Marvel One-Shot All Hail The King^[4] starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Scoot McNairy.

Early career

Between 2000 and 2004, Pearce was the lead singer and guitarist in the London alt-country band Woodchuck, among various other music projects.^[5]

He also produced a number of British television shows before transitioning into writing and directing. His previous work as a writer, producer or director includes The Musical Storytellers Ginger and Black^[6] for E4 and High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman for BBC Three.

No Heroics

In 2007, Pearce created No Heroics, a sitcom about unsuccessful British superheroes, following their R-rated off-duty exploits and their lives in hero-only pub The Fortress. The full series was shot in 2008, and released in October of that year. The show was nominated for a British Comedy Award, which led Pearce to shoot a U.S. pilot in the spring of 2009, for the ABC Network. The network declined to pick the pilot up to full series.^[7]

Film career

In 2010, Pearce transitioned into Hollywood when Marvel hired him to adapt Runaways for the big screen^[8] based on the comic book by Brian K.Vaughan and Adrian Alphona. The film remains in development.

Staying in the Marvel family, it was then announced on 31 March 2011,^[9] that he would co-write Iron Man 3 with director Shane Black. The Hollywood Reporter released in July 2011 that Pearce would also pen Paramount's adaption of the DC Comics title The Mighty.^[10]

After finishing Iron Man 3, Pearce completed an uncredited rewrite on Guillermo del Toro's sci-fi action thriller Pacific Rim,^[11] before being commissioned to write the script for a third film in the Sherlock Holmes film series starring Robert Downey, Jr. in October 2011.^[12]

Pearce has also sold, penned and will be the executive producer for the original screenplay Secretary's Day, with Will Gluck attached to direct, for Sony Pictures.^[13] In November 2012, it was announced that he would co-write and co-produce with Jason Segel an untitled comedy based on the 2011 documentary The Other F Word for 20th Century Fox.^[14] In 2012, he was nominated as "One To Watch" by industry blog Indiewire.^[15]

In October 2012, Pearce was tapped to polish the script for Legendary Pictures' Godzilla reboot.^[16]

Pearce received story by credit for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.^[17][18]

In June 2014, it was announced that Pearce had sold the original screenplay The Long Run to 20th Century Fox as his film directing debut.^[19] The film will be produced by The Chernin Group. Fox and Chernin were keeping the line log under wraps at the time of sale, other than to acknowledge it is an original action crime film. Pearce is set to write the screenplay for Sony Pictures' reboot of Ghostbusters,^[20] which is produced by Sony's new founded company, Ghost Corps.^[21]

Other works

In March 2012, Pearce directed the music video for the song "Rearrange"^[22] by Miles Kane. By December 2015, it had received over 3 million YouTube views.^[23]

Filmography

References

External links

• Drew Pearce at the Internet Movie Database
• Pearce, Drew; Ben Gregor (16 September 2008). "On location: No Heroics", Broadcast Now, EMAP. Retrieved on 18 September 2008.