JJ Abrams

New Yorker Jeffrey Jacob Abrams was born on June 27, 1966. The one who was called to revolutionize television is, in turn, the son of a veteran television producer, Gerald W. Abrams, involved in titles like Blood Brothers . Young Jeffrey was always very restless, endowed with an inexhaustible curiosity, since his favorite pastime had always been taking toys apart to see how they worked inside. “Sometimes I had pieces left over,” he declared. He attended the rigorous independent and liberal Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers. When he was very young he was completely shocked after attending a screening of Star Wars.. “For our generation, it has been perhaps the most influential film. It opened the world up to space adventure, and everything we do is influenced, to a greater or lesser extent, by the first three films,” Abrams said.

From a very young age, Abrams was passionate about television, devouring episodes of the most diverse series, although his favorite was In the limits of reality . “It was a dream for me to be able to work much later with its creator, the legendary Rob Serling, in a black and white episode of Felicity that paid homage to his unforgettable creation,” Abrams himself commented emotionally to the author of these lines. , In an interview. He also had a good ear for music, which allowed him to compose his own songs. And if he didn’t get to compose at the age of four, like Mozart, he does have a lot of merit that at sixteen he sold his first scores, for Nightbeast, forgotten fanterrorific by-product, which was his first job for the big entertainment industry. In high school he began writing a film script that would eventually lead to Instant Millionaire , a sports comedy, with James Belushi . And although he did not become an instant millionaire, it would not take long for him to earn large amounts, because after writing About Henry , he managed to sell the script for Forever Young , which would star Mel Gibson , for two million dollars .

Married to Katie McGrath since 1996, with whom he has had three children, the real accolade for Abrams was his collaboration with the influential producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and the director Michael Bay , for whom he wrote Armageddon , which was a hit in theaters the summer of 1998.

But Abrams still had to discover that the medium where he could get the most out of his creations was the small screen, which was destined to change forever. He landed in the ‘silly box’ when there was very little left for the arrival of The Sopranos and The West Wing of the White House –both from 1999– and Six Feet Under (2001), true triggers for the golden age of soap operas. . Before, in 1998, Abrams created his first series with Matt Reeves , Felicity, which had four seasons and 84 episodes in total. The title alluded to the name of the protagonist, a young woman who, after finishing her studies at the institute, enrolls at New York University, because Ben, the boy she has always been in love with, will also go there. Abrams discovered that he was like a fish in water in the series, and after founding his own production company, Bad Robot, he launched himself to invent the Alias ​​series , which renewed the spy genre, and made Jennifer Garner known.. The actress played Sydney Bristow, a college student who discovered that the organization she worked for was not a CIA front as she believed, but a branch of a criminal organization. The originality of the series consists in the fact that Abrams regularly transformed it completely, without giving up its plot coherence.

But the Abrams series that marked a before and after was Lost , co-created by Damon Lindelof and Jeffrey Lieber , about a passenger plane that crashes on a remote Pacific island. There are several keys to the success of the series, such as the structure of the episodes, which combined events from the present with several ‘flashbacks’ that in each episode illustrated the past of one of the characters. The cryptic argument has also played in its favor, which has given rise to followers conjecturing the most absurd theories, giving rise to more internet forums than any other previous television program.

Without completely leaving the TV, which had surrendered at his feet, aside, Abrams decided to conquer the big screen with Mission Impossible III , an entertaining installment of the saga based on one of the cathode classics. He repeated the move with Star Trek , a prequel to the adventures of the crew of the very famous spaceship Enterprise, which is undoubtedly the best installment of the entire vast franchise in cinema. The incombustible Abrams combined the shoot with the launch of Fringe , his new sci-fi series about an FBI agent and a scientist who, in the style of the X -Files , investigate strange occurrences. And besides, Abrams has been a producer of Monstrous, shot as a home tape, depicting a gigantic creature attacking New York City.