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name: "Jake Schreier"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jake-schreier"
fi1m_id: "jake-schreier"
imdb_id: "nm1500577"
tmdb_id: 836732
wikidata_id: "Q6124973"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "29 September 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T16:42:16.784598+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jake Schreier

## Identity

Jake Schreier

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jake-schreier
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jake-schreier
- **IMDb ID:** nm1500577
- **TMDB ID:** 836732
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6124973
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Schreier, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6124973, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1500577/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/836732

Director. Born 29 September 1981 in Berkeley, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 29 September 1981, Berkeley, California, USA
- **Active:** 2011–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Joanna Calo](https://film.one/person/joanna-calo.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 70 (1), 2020s 71 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Schreier, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6124973, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1500577/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/836732

## Coming up

- *Untitled X-Men Film* (2028-05-04), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Shameless*](https://film.one/tv/shameless-2011.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Jake Schreier

> Jake Schreier is worth following for his attention to unhappy people, even in a superhero film. We like the care he gives his characters; *Thunderbolts\** suggests he needs to give pace and action equal thought.

In *Thunderbolts\** (2025), Schreier puts a collection of discarded Marvel characters in a hole and leaves them unsure what they are for. A Russian super-soldier now drives a limousine; a replacement Captain America has been sacked. There are jokes available in both circumstances, but Schreier takes the lack of purpose seriously. We like his willingness to spend time with people who have little enthusiasm for the task ahead. The film is worth an evening if superheroes are your thing, with some patience required.

His first feature, the science-fiction comedy *Robot & Frank* (2012), showed a sure handling of tone and images. *Paper Towns* (2015), adapted from John Green's novel, was his first studio feature. Television work including *Beef* (2023) followed before the move to Marvel with *Thunderbolts\**. That is a career moving between formats and kinds of story.

Writers Christopher Ford, Lee Sung Jin and Joanna Calo are among his collaborators, and the attention to character cannot all be credited to the director. Schreier's use of long takes to convey anxiety suggests a useful instinct for letting a scene develop. In *Thunderbolts\**, Florence Pugh is the greater asset. We were moved by its concern with not much wanting to get up, because Pugh gives that unhappiness enough weight to matter amid the superhero business. Schreier is right to give her performance room.

He is less successful at keeping the film moving. The first act dawdles, and the fights are ordinary: neither problem is cancelled out by taking the characters' feelings seriously. That matters in a superhero film, where caring about the people should make the action more involving. His handling of the fights here gives us little reason to recommend him for that part of the job.

## Biography

Jake Schreier is an American film and television director. He directed the feature films *Robot & Frank* (2012) and *Paper Towns* (2015), as well as the Marvel Studios film *Thunderbolts** (2025). He has also directed episodes of the series *Beef* (2023) and other television projects including *Kidding* and *Minx*.

Schreier graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and was a founding member of the Brooklyn-based filmmaking collective Waverly Films. He joined Park Pictures in 2006. He is set to direct an untitled X-Men film for Marvel Studios, scheduled for 2028. Schreier has won a Primetime Emmy Award.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, marvel.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Thunderbolts** (2025), Fi1m 71, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/thunderbolts.md)
- *Shameless* (2011), Fi1m 70, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless-2011.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Untitled X-Men Film* (2028), Director
- *FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)* (2026), Director
- *Thunderbolts** (2025), Director — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/thunderbolts.md)
- *Star Wars: Skeleton Crew* (2024), series, Director
- *BEEF* (2023), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *We Cry Together* (2022), Director
- *Minx* (2022), series, Director
- *The Premise* (2021), series, Director
- *Brand New Cherry Flavor* (2021), series, Director
- *Chance the Rapper's Magnificent Coloring World* (2021), Director
- *DAVE* (2020), series, Director
- *Kidding* (2018), series, Director
- *Lodge 49* (2018), series, Director
- *Spider-Man: Homecoming* (2017), Thanks — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-homecoming.md)
- *I'm Dying Up Here* (2017), series, Director
- *Creative Control* (2016), Thanks
- *Paper Towns* (2015), Director
- *Clown* (2014), Thanks
- *Alpha House* (2013), series, Director
- *First Winter* (2012), Associate Producer
- *Robot & Frank* (2012), Director
- *Magic Valley* (2011), Associate Producer
- *Shameless* (2011), series, Director — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless-2011.md)
- *Christopher Ford Sees a Film* (2005), Director

## Gallery

- ![Jake Schreier](https://film.one/media/person/8555/gallery-bdded6bb39cc.jpg) Jake Schreier — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Jake_Schreier_Deauville_2012.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Alex Montiel entrevistando a Hannah John-Kamen y a Jake Schreier en la Comic-Con de San Diego 2024](https://film.one/media/person/8555/gallery-f97c7ce123cd.jpg) Alex Montiel entrevistando a Hannah John-Kamen y a Jake Schreier en la Comic-Con de San Diego 2024 — LA LATA, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Alex_Montiel_entrevistando_a_Hannah_John-Kamen_en_Comic-Con_2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![A photo of American film director Jake Schreier. (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/8555/gallery-42ed20cff26e.jpg) A photo of American film director Jake Schreier. (2012) — Elen Nivrae, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Jake_Schreier.jpg/500px-Jake_Schreier.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Isaac Klausner (producer), Susan Macke Miller (Mrs. Spiegelman), Tom Hillmann (Mr. Spiegelman) Jake Schreier (director) on the set of "Paper Towns" (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/8555/gallery-177b10b5a511.jpg) Isaac Klausner (producer), Susan Macke Miller (Mrs. Spiegelman), Tom Hillmann (Mr. Spiegelman) Jake Schreier (director) on the set of "Paper Towns" (2014) — Tom Hillmann, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Tom_Hillmann_on_the_set_of_%22Paper_Towns%22.jpg/1280px-Tom_Hillmann_on_the_set_of_%22Paper_Towns%22.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jake Schreier](https://film.one/media/person/8555/gallery-8a9b22f3ac9c.jpg) Jake Schreier — Image via TMDB
- ![Jake Schreier](https://film.one/media/person/8555/gallery-7a62f065ba04.jpg) Jake Schreier — Image via TMDB
- ![Jake Schreier](https://film.one/media/person/8555/gallery-c117fc728e82.jpg) Jake Schreier — Image via TMDB
- ![Jake Schreier](https://film.one/media/person/8555/gallery-5ef2beae5ba7.jpg) Jake Schreier — Image via TMDB
- ![Jake Schreier](https://film.one/media/person/8555/gallery-24fa3a5d84b4.jpg) Jake Schreier — Image via TMDB

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