Rob Letterman

Robert Thomas Letterman born October 31 1970 is an American film director and screenwriter He made his directorial debut as codirector of the animated comedy film Shark Tale2004 for which he received a nomination for the Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production He codirected the animated science fiction comedy  Monsters vs Aliens 2009 Letterman has since transitioned into liveaction filmmaking directing the fantasy comedy film Gullivers Travels 2010 the horror comedy film Goosebumps 2015 and the fantasy mystery film Pokémon Detective Pikachu 2019 Letterman was born in Hawaii and attended MidPacific Institute and USC Before joining DreamWorks Animation Letterman directed the short film Los Gringos which was accepted at 2000s Sundance Film Festival In 2002 Vicky Jenson and Eric Bibo Bergeron invited him as a screenwriter then as codirector in the making of Shark Tale In 2010 Letterman directed the liveaction film Gullivers Travels starring Jack Black in the lead role He also directed the liveactionCGI film Pokémon Detective Pikachu based on the Pokémon videogame franchise The film was released on May 10 2019 It grossed 433 million at the box office It attained the highest percentage of positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for a film adaptation of a video game at the time In 2020 Netflix announced Letterman as director for an upcoming liveaction animated film adaptation of Ubisofts Beyond Good Evil video game Since then no further updates have been given for the film since the announcement Letterman is in a relationship with Beth Pontrelli and has two children Jack and Eva Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Letterman licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia