Matt Reeves

Critical, public and commercial reception to films Reeves has directed as of July 20, 2018.

In October 2011, Reeves signed on to direct a film based on the classic television series The Twilight Zone, but he left the project in September 2012. Reeves directed the science fiction film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, released in 2014. He returned to direct and write the third film in the series, War for the Planet of the Apes, which was released on July 14, 2017.

Reeves directed the 2008 monster science fiction film Cloverfield, which Abrams produced; Reeves later served as an executive producer on 10 Cloverfield Lane and The Cloverfield Paradox. Reeves wrote and directed Let Me In, a remake of the Swedish film Let the Right One In, which was released on October 1, 2010, by Overture Films.

Matt Reeves is an American filmmaker. After several years working in film and television, Reeves made his cinematic directorial debut with The Pallbearer (1996). He came to widespread attention with the mainstream hit Cloverfield (2008), going on to helm the romantic horror film remake Let Me In (2010) and the critically acclaimed science fiction sequels Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) and War for the Planet of the Apes (2017).

Reeves attended the University of Southern California. There, between 1991 and 1992, he produced an award-winning student film, Mr. Petrified Forest, which helped him acquire an agent; he also co-wrote a script that eventually became Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. After graduating, he co-wrote Cloverfield which became his professional directorial debut.