Destin Daniel Cretton

Destin Daniel Cretton
Born	November 23, 1978 Haiku, Maui, Hawaii, U.S.A.
Gender	Male
Height	6′ 0½″ (1.84 m)
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter Producer editor
Works on	American Born Chinese

Destin Daniel Cretton is an American filmmaker, and serves as an executive producer and director of the American Born Chinese original series for Disney+.

General overview

Maui-born Cretton is fresh off the release of Marvel Studios’ Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, starring Simu Liu, Michelle Yeoh, Awkwafina, and Tony Leung. This is the first film in the MCU that is led by an Asian actor, and mostly Asian cast. Destin's feature film debut, “I Am Not a Hipster”, premiered at Sundance in 2012, and was followed by Short Term 12, which won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the SXSW Film Festival in 2013, featuring early performances by Brie Larson, Lakeith Stanfield, Rami Malek, Kaitlyn Dever, and John Gallagher Jr. His third feature, an adaptation of the NY Times best-selling memoir, The Glass Castle, starred Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts and was released in 2016 by Lionsgate. Following this, Crettom directed Just Mercy for Warner Bros, the adaptation of the NY-Times best-selling memoir by civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson. The film starred Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson. On October 4, 2021, it was announced that Disney+ had greenlit an adaptation of the Gene Luen Yang graphic novel and ordered it straight to series, with Cretton directing and Charles Yu and Kelvin Yu writing the series and starring the likes of Ben Wang, Yeoh, Daniel Wu and Chin Han to name a few. He also worked with his sister Joy Cretton in this project, where she was a costume designer for the American Born Chinese series.

External links

• Destin Daniel Cretton on the Internet Movie Database
• Destin Daniel Cretton on Wikipedia
• Destin Daniel Cretton (@destindaniel) on Instagram