--- name: "Will Gluck" canonical: "https://film.one/person/will-gluck" fi1m_id: "will-gluck" imdb_id: "nm0323239" tmdb_id: 82511 wikidata_id: "Q2576503" roles: ["Director","Writer","Producer"] born: "7 November 1978" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 60 average_as: "director" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-23T04:10:32.783984+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." --- # Will Gluck ## Identity Will Gluck - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/will-gluck - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** will-gluck - **IMDb ID:** nm0323239 - **TMDB ID:** 82511 - **Wikidata ID:** Q2576503 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Gluck, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2576503, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0323239/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82511 Director and writer. Born 7 November 1978 in New York City, New York, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Director, Writer, Producer - **Born:** 7 November 1978, New York City, New York, USA - **Active:** 2009–present - **Also known as:** William Gluck - **Average Fi1m score:** 60, as director, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 77 (1), 2020s 51 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 60 to 58 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 2 under 60 - **Genres:** Comedy 3, Romance 2 - **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $306m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Gluck, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2576503, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0323239/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82511 ## Coming up - *Fake Skating* (2027-07-15), Producer ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Easy A*](https://film.one/film/easy-a.md) (77) - **Disney+:** [*Anyone but You*](https://film.one/film/anyone-but-you.md) (56) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Will Gluck > Will Gluck knows how to put an appealing couple on screen and make them look foolish without losing their charm. We are less persuaded by the writing, which too often supplies another misunderstanding when a comedy needs a joke. In *Anyone but You* (2023), Glen Powell has to remove his trousers on a beach in front of both families and plays the embarrassment as though he were closing a deal. We laughed because he keeps the man's confidence intact while taking away his dignity. Will Gluck is good at giving attractive actors something ridiculous to do, and at letting their charm survive it. What follows is twenty minutes spent advancing a plan without another laugh. We find that the more closely his romantic comedies organise their misunderstandings, the less room they leave for anyone to say something funny. *Easy A* (2010), his breakthrough, gave Emma Stone a script that let her talk her way out of trouble. Its use of Nathaniel Hawthorne's *The Scarlet Letter* established a habit of bringing older stories into contemporary comedy, later repeated with Shakespeare's *Much Ado About Nothing* in *Anyone but You*. *Friends with Benefits* (2011) followed, before the musical *Annie* (2014) and the *Peter Rabbit* films (2018 and 2021) took him away from romantic comedy. The return to couples and their complications has retained his interest in casting people we enjoy watching together. It has not consistently given those people enough to say. Gluck and co-writer Ilana Wolpert move *Anyone but You* to a wedding in Sydney, where Sydney Sweeney and Powell's characters pretend to be a couple. Sweeney and Powell make agreeable company, but scene after scene requires them to establish a pretence, maintain it or cope with it going wrong. The familiar plot would matter less if the dialogue did more than manage it. Once a comic situation is over, there is scarcely a line worth remembering. Their chemistry makes it easy to sit through, but cannot make it funny enough. *One Night Only* (2026) gives Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner another appealing pairing, this time in a romance built around an annual twelve-hour exemption from a ban on premarital sex. Travis Braun's screenplay uses that premise mainly to hurry the couple through romantic mishaps, and Gluck seems reluctant to look beyond those complications. The daydream sequences are funnier because they briefly allow the sexual imagination that the rest of the film seems nervous about. Gluck's wish to keep everything cheerful feels evasive when the obstacle is so grim. Start with *Easy A*, where the lead is allowed to do more than keep the plot on schedule. ## Biography Will Gluck is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He began his career writing for television series including Grosse Pointe, Luis and Andy Richter Controls the Universe, and co-created the Fox series The Loop. Gluck made his feature directorial debut with Fired Up! (2009). He went on to direct and write Easy A (2010), Friends with Benefits (2011), Annie (2014), Peter Rabbit (2018) and its sequel Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021), and Anyone but You (2023), on which he also received a producer credit. He is a graduate of Cornell University and has worked as a songwriter and composer on some of his projects. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *One Night Only* (2026), Fi1m 46, Other, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/one-night-only.md) - *Anyone but You* (2023), Fi1m 56, Director, Screenplay, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/anyone-but-you.md) - *Easy A* (2010), Fi1m 77, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/easy-a.md) ## Complete filmography (28) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Fake Skating* (2027), Producer - *One Night Only* (2026), Director, Producer, Other — Fi1m 46, [page](https://film.one/film/one-night-only.md) - *Amigos Sem Compromisso* (2024), Original Film Writer - *Anyone but You* (2023), Screenplay, Director, Producer — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/anyone-but-you.md) - *Among the Stars* (2021), series, Executive Producer - *Chicago Party Aunt* (2021), series, Executive Producer - *Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway* (2021), Writer, Director, Producer - *Sneakerheads* (2020), series, Executive Producer - *Woke* (2020), series, Executive Producer - *Peter Rabbit* (2018), Director, Producer, Screenstory, Screenplay - *Annie* (2014), Director, Screenplay, Songs - *About Last Night* (2014), Producer - *Barefoot* (2014), as Male Attendant - *The Michael J. Fox Show* (2013), series, Director, Writer, Story, Executive Producer, Creator - *Friends with Benefits* (2011), Director, Screenplay, Producer - *Easy A* (2010), Director, Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/easy-a.md) - *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* (2009), Thanks — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs.md) - *Fired Up!* (2009), Director, Writer - *The Loop* (2006), series, Producer, Writer, Creator - *Method & Red* (2004), series, Executive Producer - *Luis* (2003), series, Executive Producer, Creator - *Andy Richter Controls the Universe* (2002), series, Writer - *Gary & Mike* (2001), series, Writer - *Grosse Pointe* (2000), series, Writer - *Working* (1997), series, as Phil, Francois - *Down the Rabbit Hole*, Executive Producer - *Jackpot*, Director - *Penelope*, Producer ## Gallery - ![Will Gluck at ANNIE premiere (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/14909/gallery-55b6081d3dbc.jpg) Will Gluck at ANNIE premiere (2014) — Felix Kirng, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/WGpix.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Will Gluck](https://film.one/media/person/14909/gallery-f5ad82ab0cfd.jpg) Will Gluck — Image via TMDB - ![Will Gluck](https://film.one/media/person/14909/gallery-b594de88e5c3.jpg) Will Gluck — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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