Jonathan Charles Turteltaub (b. 8 August1963) is an Americanfilm director and producer. He is best known for National Treasure, and is working on National Treasure 2. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and USC's School of Cinema-Television. On July 6, 2006, he married Amy Eldon, sister of photojournalist Dan Eldon. August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... A film producer creates the conditions for making movies. ... This is for the movie. ... National Treasure 2 is a 2007 sequel to the 2004 film National Treasure. ... Wesleyan University founded in 1831, is a private, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. ... The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly as Southern Cal[1]), located in the downtown district of Los Angeles, California, was founded in 1880, making it Californias oldest private research university. ... Dan Eldon (September 18, 1970 – July 12, 1993) was a British photojournalist and artist. ...
Turteltaub directed his latest film, National Treasure, straight to number one, a position befitting the auteur behind The Kid, While You Were Sleeping, Cool Runnings, and 3 Ninjas, perhaps the Citizen Kane of triplicate ninja films.
Hence, JonTurteltaub is exactly the right kind of hack for this kind of harmless popcorn thriller.
What Turteltaub does so smoothly is inject absolutely none of his personality into a film like National Treasure, so as not to detract from the quirkiness of a Nicolas Cage or the penchant for the blank, blockbuster-ability of a Jerry Bruckheimer.
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