‘Blue Bayou’ Filmmaker Justin Chon Inks With WME & Blue Marble Management
EXCLUSIVE: Blue Bayou filmmaker Justin Chon has signed with WME and Blue Marble Management for representation.
Chon recently directed and executive produced the new Apple TV+ series Chief of War, starring Jason Momoa and produced by Chernin and Fifth Season. The series will premiere in 2024 on Apple TV+.
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He also wrote, directed, and starred in the 2021 film Blue Bayou, which sold competitively to Focus Features and premiered at Cannes as part of the Un Certain Regard selection. In the film, Justin stars opposite Oscar winner Alicia Vikander. His fourth feature film, Jamojaya, which he wrote and directed, premiered at Sundance in 2023. Ms. Purple, which he wrote, directed and produced, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. His feature, Gook, premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the NEXT Audience Award.
Chon also executive produced and directed episodes of Apple TV+’s Peabody Award winning Season 1 of Pachinko.
Chon began his career as an actor on the Twilight films, Disney Channel’s Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior, and Nickelodeon’s Just Jordan.
He is currently adapting and attached to direct an original feature, Night Riders, a noir crime drama set in Hawaii, for Amazon Studios with Sister Pictures producing.
Chon joins Theresa Kang’s Blue Marble Management roster that includes Alfonso Cuaron (Roma), Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire), Lena Waithe (Master of None), Prentice Penny (Uncorked, Insecure), Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), David Jenkins (Our Flag Means Death), Gordon Smith (Better Call Saul), Jason Kim (Barry) and Little Marvin (Them: Covenant), and others.
Chon is also repped by attorneys Scott Whitehead and Jeff Frankel at McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
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