Jan de Bont was born in the Netherlands to a Roman Catholic Dutch family on the 22 of October 1943. He has always had a creative mind and good mentality for camera techniques and soon got into film as a popular cinematographer. He worked on a huge number of films before finding himself on the production of the film Speed which became his first as a director. The film was a success and took him onto the next set for Twister which he also directed. But then the total flops started coming his way: firstly Speed 2 which he wrote and directed but without the company of Keanu Reeves. He also directed the star packed The Haunting but that also failed him at the Box Office.
Later, Jan directed Lara Croft, and is still active in cinema. His brilliant direction of Speed, proves he is a director, like many, with a spark of his own.
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