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What Is Rian Johnson's Net Worth?

Rian Johnson is an American writer, director, and producer who has a net worth of $150 million. Rian Johnson has written and directed the films "Brick" (2005), "The Brothers Bloom" (2008), "Looper" (2012), "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" (2017), "Knives Out" (2019), and "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" (2022), and he also produced "Knives Out" and "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery." Rian has won numerous awards for his work, and he earned an Academy Award nomination for writing the "Knives Out" screenplay. "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" grossed $1.333 billion at the box office, making it 2017's highest-grossing movie, and as of this writing, it's the ninth highest-grossing film of all time. Johnson has also directed episodes of "Terriers" (2010) and "Breaking Bad" (2010; 2012; 2013), winning a Directors Guild of America Award for "Breaking Bad" in 2013. In March 2021, Rian and his producing partner, Ram Bergman (who runs the production company T-Street with Johnson), signed a $469 million deal with Netflix to release two "Knives Out" sequels on the streaming platform.

Early Life

Rian Johnson was born RianCraig Johnsonon December 17, 1973, in Silver Spring, Maryland. He grew up in Denver, Colorado, and San Clemente, California, and he graduated from San Clemente High School in 1992. Much of Rian's 2005 film "Brick" was filmed at San Clemente High. After graduation, Johnson enrolled at the University of Southern California, and in 1996, he graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. His brother Aaron and cousin Nathan both worked on "Brick," Aaron as a music mixer and Nathan as a music producer, musician, score engineer, score producer, and composer. Nathan has worked as a composer on all of Rian's films except "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."

Career

Johnson has said that the 1977 film "Annie Hall" inspired him to become a director, stating, "It moved me in a way that very few other films have moved me. That's something that, I pray to God, if I am able to keep making movies, I can only hope, twenty years down the line maybe, I'll be able to approach." Before releasing his first feature film, Rian wrote, directed, produced, and edited the short films "Ninja Ko, the Origami Master" (1990), "Evil Demon Golfball from Hell!!!" (1997), "Ben Boyer and the Phenomenology of Automobile Marketing" (2001), and "The Psychology of Dream Analysis" (2002). He made his feature film debut with the 2005 crime drama "Brick," which he wrote, directed, and edited. The film starsJoseph Gordon-Levitt, grossed $3.9 million against a $450,000 budget, and received a John Cassavetes Award nomination at the Independent Spirit Awards. Johnson directed The Mountain Goats music video "Woke Up New" (2008) and the concert film "The Mountain Goats: The Life of the World to Come" (2010), and in 2008, he released his second feature film, "The Brothers Bloom." StarringMark RuffaloandAdrien Brodyas the title characters, "The Brothers Bloom" earned Rian a Bronze Horse nomination at the Stockholm Film Festival.

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Johnson directed three episodes of the critically-acclaimed AMC series "Breaking Bad," "Fly" (2010), "Fifty-One" (2012), and "Ozymandias" (2013). He won a Directors Guild of America Award for "Fifty-One" and two Gold Derby Awards for "Ozymandias." He reunited with Joseph Gordon-Levitt for the 2012 film "Looper," which grossed $176.5 million against a $30 million budget and was featured on several top 10 lists of the year's best films. Rian's fourth feature film, 2017's "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," was a massive success at the box office, bringing in more than $1 billion, and it received four Academy Award nominations and won Empire Awards for Best Film and Best Director. In November 2017, it was announced that Johnson had been hired to direct a trilogy of "Star Wars" films that "will be a completely new story, with original characters, set in a different galaxy."

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