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Sean Daniel
Sean Daniel
Born	Sean Peter Daniel; August 15, 1951 (age 73); New York City, New York, U.S.
Education	High School of Music & Art
Alma mater	California Institute of the Arts
Occupation(s)	Film producer, film executive
Spouse	Ruth Hunter

Sean Peter Daniel (born August 15, 1951)^[1] is an American film producer and movie executive.

Life and career

Born to a Jewish family,^[2]^[3] Daniel attended Manhattan's High School of Music & Art, graduating in 1969.^[4] He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in film from the California Institute of the Arts in 1973.^{[citation needed]}

In 1976, he joined Universal Pictures as a film production executive and in 1985, at the age of 34, he became production president,^[5] the youngest in the studio's history, a position he held for five years.^{[citation needed]} At Universal he supervised the financing and production of such acclaimed films as National Lampoon's Animal House, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Blues Brothers, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Brazil, Field of Dreams, Do the Right Thing, Back to the Future, Out of Africa, Midnight Run, Born on the Fourth of July, Missing, Weird Science, Uncle Buck, The Great Outdoors, Born in East L.A., Fletch, Gorillas in the Mist, Darkman, and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.^{[citation needed]}

Following his tenure as an executive at the studio, Daniel started Alphaville Films with James Jacks. The production company was formed around the development and production of the first Mummy film that, based on its success, created a franchise yielding The Mummy Returns, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and The Scorpion King. Through their company, Daniel and Jacks also produced such films as Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, the renowned western Tombstone; Nora Ephron’s comedy Michael, which starred John Travolta; Sam Raimi’s A Simple Plan; the Coen Brothers’ Intolerable Cruelty; the Chris Rock/Weitz Brothers comedy Down to Earth; the rap-music comedy CB4, also with Chris Rock; Jerry Zucker’s Rat Race; John Woo’s first American film, Hard Target; The Jackal, which starred Richard Gere and Bruce Willis; Sam Raimi's The Gift starring Cate Blanchett; and American Me which starred and was directed by Edward James Olmos.

Daniel's 2016 films are Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!!, and Ben-Hur, an adaptation that returns to the original novel, with Timur Bekmambetov directing a script by Academy Award-winner John Ridley.

Daniel is currently the principal in The Sean Daniel Company, an independent production company that is developing projects at several studios and networks. At Universal, Daniel partnered with the producing team of Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan to create a new series of re-imagined Mummy movies, starting with 2017's The Mummy. In development is the follow-up to Universal's The Best Man Holiday which Daniel produced alongside writer/director/producer Malcolm D. Lee.

Daniel is the Executive Producer of the TV series The Expanse, for SyFy and Alcon Television Group. Based on the New York Times Best-Selling franchise by James S. A. Corey and adapted to screen by Academy Award-nominated screenwriters Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Children of Men, Iron Man), the sci-fi thriller series is among the cable networks most ambitious project to date. The Expanse first aired December 2015 and stars Thomas Jane, Steven Strait, and Shohreh Aghdashloo. In addition to The Expanse, The Sean Daniel Company's television credits include Graceland, from Jeff Eastin, the creator of White Collar, now in its third season on the USA Network. The Sean Daniel Company has also just partnered with Google to develop a TV drama based on Ingress, a game with millions of participants, that uses real locations and social media activity. Additionally, Daniel has executive produced the TNT original film Freedom Song, directed by Phil Alden Robinson and which starred Danny Glover; HBO's Everyday People; and the USA Network’s four-hour mini series Attila, starring Gerard Butler.

Among the company's other projects is a partnership with independently funded Valiant Entertainment to make films based on their comic book characters, and Agent 13, based on the novel series, with Charlize Theron starring and producing with The Sean Daniel Company and Rupert Wyatt directing.

Daniel has been a participant in the debate about media and culture, appearing on TV’s The McLaughlin Group and NPR’s Which Way L.A., and in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Huffington Post.

Personal life

Daniel is married to Ruth Hunter, a staffer for the NRDC.^[6]

Selected filmography

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

Year	Film	Credit	Notes
1991	Pure Luck
1992	American Me
1993	CB4	Executive producer
	Dazed and Confused
	Heart and Souls
	Hard Target
	Tombstone
1995	Village of the Damned	Co-executive producer
1995	Mallrats
1996	Michael
1997	The Jackal
1999	The Mummy
2000	Lucky Numbers
2000	The Gift	Executive producer
2001	Down to Earth
	The Mummy Returns
	Pootie Tang	Executive producer
	Rat Race
2002	The Scorpion King
2002	Dark Blue
2003	The Hunted	Executive producer
2003	Intolerable Cruelty	Executive producer
2004	Alfie	Executive producer
2008	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
2008	The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior		Direct-to-video
2010	The Wolfman
2012	The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption	Executive producer	Direct-to-video
2013	The Best Man Holiday
2015	The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power	Executive producer	Direct-to-video
2016	Everybody Wants Some!!	Executive producer
	Ben-Hur
	Hard Target 2	Executive producer	Direct-to-video
2017	The Mummy
2018	The Scorpion King: Book of Souls	Executive producer	Direct-to-video
2019	Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2021	The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf	Executive producer

Production manager

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1980	Coal Miner's Daughter	Executive in charge of production	Uncredited
1984	Sixteen Candles
1988	The Great Outdoors
1990	Darkman

As an actor

Year	Film	Role
1985	Spies Like Us	Ace Tomato Driver
1990	Darkman	Policeman #2

Thanks

Year	Film	Role
1995	Mallrats	The director would like to thank: For bringing a pedigree to the project
1998	A Simple Plan	Thanks

Television

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
1996	Don't Look Back	Executive producer	Television film
2000	Freedom Song	Executive producer	Television film
2001	Attila	Executive producer
2004	Everyday People	Executive producer	Television film
2013−15	Graceland
2015−2022	The Expanse	Executive producer
2019	The Witcher	Executive producer
2022	The Witcher: Blood Origin	Executive producer