---
name: "Jeff Kaplan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jeff-kaplan"
fi1m_id: "jeff-kaplan"
imdb_id: "nm0438266"
tmdb_id: 1184281
roles: ["Writer","Director"]
born: "4 November 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-30T20:27:20.972491+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."
---

# Jeff Kaplan

## Identity

Jeff Kaplan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jeff-kaplan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jeff-kaplan
- **IMDb ID:** nm0438266
- **TMDB ID:** 1184281
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438266/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1184281

Writer and director. Born 4 November 1972.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Director
- **Born:** 4 November 1972
- **Active:** 2013–present
- **Also known as:** 杰夫瑞·卡普兰
- **Frequently works with:** [Ian Springer](https://film.one/person/ian-springer.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438266/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1184281

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Fantastic 4: First Steps*](https://film.one/film/the-fantastic-4-first-steps.md) (71)

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

## Biography

Jeff Kaplan is an American screenwriter. He has collaborated with writing partner Ian Springer for over a decade, having met while studying at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Their early work includes the 2013 comedy *Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship*, which Kaplan also directed and which won awards at the Hoboken International Film Festival and London Independent Film Festival. In 2022, Kaplan and Springer were hired by Marvel Studios to develop a story treatment for *The Fantastic Four: First Steps* (2025); they received shared story and screenplay credits on the film alongside additional writers.

*Sources: imdb.com, superherohype.com, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Fantastic 4: First Steps* (2025), Fi1m 71, Story, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-fantastic-4-first-steps.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *The Fantastic 4: First Steps* (2025), Story, Screenplay — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/the-fantastic-4-first-steps.md)
- *The Last of the Great Romantics* (2014), Writer
- *Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship* (2013), Writer, Director
- *K-Pop: Lost in America*, Writer
- *Disaster Wedding*, Writer

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/jeff-kaplan