Sean Daniel

Sean Daniel, p.g.a., has been hustling in Hollywood for almost five decades, which is honestly wild when you think about the sheer mountain of classic movies he’s had his hands on. He broke into Universal Pictures back in ‘76, and by the time he was 34, he’d already snagged the title of youngest production president in the studio’s history. Talk about a flex. Daniel was in the mix for some absolute bangers—Animal House, The Blues Brothers, The Breakfast Club, Back to the Future, Sixteen Candles, Field of Dreams, you name it. He’s the guy behind the scenes, making the magic happen on films people still obsess over. Then he kicked off Alphaville Films, roped in James Jacks, and cooked up The Mummy in ‘99, which basically blew up and just kept on rolling, launching Dwayne Johnson’s movie career and raking in close to $2 billion with all the sequels and spinoffs. But Sean didn’t stop there—he bounced between genres with stuff like Dazed and Confused, Tombstone, Michael, Intolerable Cruelty, and even got Chris Rock into CB4 and Down to Earth. The man’s got range. More recently, he’s been killing it with Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!!, and the Belushi doc. On TV, he’s had his fingerprints on The Witcher, The Expanse, The Best Man: The Final Chapters, Graceland, and a bunch of other series that people binge-watch all weekend. Oh, and yeah, he’s got a BFA in film from CalArts. So, if you’ve watched movies at all in the last 40 years, you’ve probably seen his work—whether you realized it or not.