Ryan Landels
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Ryan is a Canadian-born writer/director who recently sold his genre-bending thriller "Cul-de-Sac" to Sony. His frequent collaborator Jon M. Chu ("Crazy Rich Asians") is producing, Ben Briand is attached to direct and the project is now casting.
He is developing a project in the vein of "Pirates of the Caribbean" for producer David Hoberman, which got both Matt Shakman ("Wandavision") and Joachim Rønning ("Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales") attached in the pitch stage.
Ryan is also rewriting a crime drama for Gary Levinsohn's H2L Media, two original fantasy features for Crown Media, and wrote the screenplay for Jem and the Holograms (2015) - Universal's live-action adaptation of Hasbro's toy-line and animated series that was theatrically released worldwide.
In TV, Ryan wrote the teleplay for the multiple Emmy-nominated Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration (2022) for Disney+ and ABC, with the hybrid live-action and animation tribute starring Martin Short, Josh Groban, Rita Moreno, David Alan Grier and H.E.R. Recently, he adapted Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands: War Within the Cartel (2017) for Amazon and Ubisoft, with Roberto Orci producing. Previously, he created and directed Abby Normal (2016) for Disney Channel and wrote and directed on three seasons of Hulu and Paramount's hit streaming series, The LXD: The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers (2010).
Landels is a graduate of the USC School of Cinema-Television, which he attended with the support of a scholarship from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. His thesis film The Midnight Express (2002) went to more than thirty festivals internationally, won an Audience Award at Slamdance and was featured in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Ryan is based out of Los Angeles and a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America. He is represented by Rob Carlson at the United Talent Agency and Mike Fera at Kaplan/Perrone.
He is developing a project in the vein of "Pirates of the Caribbean" for producer David Hoberman, which got both Matt Shakman ("Wandavision") and Joachim Rønning ("Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales") attached in the pitch stage.
Ryan is also rewriting a crime drama for Gary Levinsohn's H2L Media, two original fantasy features for Crown Media, and wrote the screenplay for Jem and the Holograms (2015) - Universal's live-action adaptation of Hasbro's toy-line and animated series that was theatrically released worldwide.
In TV, Ryan wrote the teleplay for the multiple Emmy-nominated Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration (2022) for Disney+ and ABC, with the hybrid live-action and animation tribute starring Martin Short, Josh Groban, Rita Moreno, David Alan Grier and H.E.R. Recently, he adapted Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands: War Within the Cartel (2017) for Amazon and Ubisoft, with Roberto Orci producing. Previously, he created and directed Abby Normal (2016) for Disney Channel and wrote and directed on three seasons of Hulu and Paramount's hit streaming series, The LXD: The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers (2010).
Landels is a graduate of the USC School of Cinema-Television, which he attended with the support of a scholarship from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. His thesis film The Midnight Express (2002) went to more than thirty festivals internationally, won an Audience Award at Slamdance and was featured in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Ryan is based out of Los Angeles and a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America. He is represented by Rob Carlson at the United Talent Agency and Mike Fera at Kaplan/Perrone.
