Don Granger’s basically the guy at Skydance making sure all the blockbuster movies actually get made—and not just any films, but the kind of stuff you end up seeing on opening weekend. We’re talking Top Gun: Maverick, The Tomorrow War, Snake Eyes, The Adam Project, and, oh yeah, the Mission: Impossible flicks everyone won’t shut up about. He’s been wrangling big-budget projects for over three decades, so he’s not exactly new to this game. Before Skydance, he ran the show at United Artists, handling everything from daily chaos to getting projects off the ground. Go back even further, and he was calling the shots at C/W Productions, helping launch War of the Worlds and Mission: Impossible III. The dude’s got producer credits on everything from The Old Guard to Death Race to Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Let’s not forget his Paramount days, where he helped keep the Mission: Impossible franchise alive and kicking, plus Star Trek, Tomb Raider, and basically every big series you remember from the late ‘90s and early 2000s. Patriot Games, Saving Private Ryan, Varsity Blues, you name it, his fingerprints are probably on it somewhere. Earlier gigs? He bounced around places like Mutual Film Company and Touchstone Pictures, always working the creative angle. Member of AMPAS and the Producers Guild, Ivy League grad (Yale, not too shabby), and he’s got the whole family setup in SoCal. Basically, if there’s a major action movie you love, chances are Don Granger had a hand in making it happen.
