J.J. Abrams Filmography

Star Trek

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Karl Urban, Eric Bana, Simon Pegg, John Cho

Synopsis: Mission: Impossible III director and Alias creator J.J. Abrams resurrects the classic science fiction franchise created by Gene Roddenberry with this feature film that embraces the rich history of the influential television and film series while also exploring some uncharted territory. Heroes star Zachary Quinto Read More

Cloverfield 2

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Paramount orders up another bit of monstrous mayhem with Cloverfield 2, the sequel to the hand-held trip through Manhattan during a giant creature attack. The follow-up comes complete with the original creative team intact, with Matt Reeves returning to direct along with screenwriter Drew Goddard Read More

Hot for Teacher

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Three sex-starved high-school males pledge to lose their virginity before graduation, with one targeting his highly attractive teacher. J.J. Abrams handles the producing duties on the Jay Dyer-scripted Paramount Pictures production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

Cloverfield

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel

Synopsis: Producer J.J. Abrams teams with writer Drew Goddard and director Matt Reeves for this frenetic tale of a powerful destructive force that descends upon New York City, and the four desperate people who put their lives on the line to embark on a perilous rescue mission. Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David Read More

Fringe [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Anna Torv, Mark Valley, John Noble, Joshua Jackson, Blair Brown

Synopsis: The lines between science fiction and reality blur as J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman, the team behind Star Trek and Alias, regroup to craft this mind-bending series that begins as an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport with everyone of the passengers and crew members Read More

Morning Glory

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Produced by J.J. Abrams and written by Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada), director Roger Michell's comedic glimpse into the cutthroat world of live television finds a desperate female news producer attempting to recruit a blustery but iconic anchorwoman in a last-ditch effort to save her Read More

Mission: Impossible III

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Michelle Monaghan

Synopsis: The third entry in Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible film series involves super Impossible Mission Forces (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) being forced back into the field just when he was planning on marrying his girlfriend, Julia (Michelle Monaghan). The agency asks Hunt to save an operative (Keri Russell Read More

What About Brian [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Created by J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost) and Dana Stevens (For Love of the Game), the weekly, 60-minute dramedy What About Brian covered reliable territory previously staked out in the 1969 Broadway musical Company. Set in Los Angeles, the series starred Barry Watson as Brian O'Hara, who at age 34 was Read More

Six Degrees [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jay Hernandez, Bridget Moynahan, Erika Christensen, Dorian Missick, Campbell Scott, Hope Davis

Synopsis: Originally developed for the WB network, the hour-long drama series Six Degrees ultimately made its debut courtesy of ABC. In the tradition of the Oscar-winning theatrical feature Crash, the series offered a sextet of diverse Manhattanites whose lives intersected in strange and mysterious ways. Read More

Alias: Season 04

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Jennifer Garner, Victor Garber, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly, Michael Vartan, Kevin Weisman, Isabella Rossellini

Synopsis: Despite its late start in January of 2005 after a hiatus of eight months, the fourth season of Alias more than made up for lost time with a plethora of trials, tribulations, jaw-dropping revelations, big-time betrayals, and near-death experiences for the series' secret-agent heroine, Sydney Read More

Lost [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Synopsis: The runaway hit of ABC's 2004-2005 TV season, the weekly, hour-long drama series Lost began at a point that in any other case may have been an ending: a passenger jet was torn apart in mid-air, crashing on an uncharted Pacific Island. Stripped of all vestiges of the civilized world, the 48 Read More

Lost: Pilot, Part 2

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fredric Lehne

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Lost's two-part series opener, the individual character traits of the survivors of a mid-air plane disaster come into sharper focus. While Jack (Matthew Fox), a troubled doctor, Kate (Evangeline Lilly), a mysterious, concerned survivor, and washed-up rock star Charlie (Dominic Monaghan Read More

Lost: Pilot, Part 1

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: L. Scott Caldwell, Fredric Lehne, Greg Grunberg

Synopsis: The 48 survivors of a mid-air plane disaster dazedly gather their wits about them in the opening episode of the ABC hit series Lost. Marooned on an island somewhere in the Pacific, the survivors must now rely upon their inner strength -- and each other -- to stay alive, having been stripped of Read More

Alias: Phase One

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Originally telecast right after Super Bowl XXXVII, "Phase One" was the most controversial and talked-about episode of Alias' second season -- and not only because of the notorious segment in which star Jennifer Garner appears clad only in a skimpy bra and panties. With Sloane (Ron Rifkin) having Read More

Alias: The Telling

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) manages to clear Will (Bradley Cooper) of espionage charges, but she must still deal with the fact that her mother, Irina (Lena Olin), has betrayed her. The situation changes radically when Irina shows up, claiming that she was only Read More

Alias: The Two

Crew: Screenwriter

Alias: Season 03

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Jennifer Garner, Victor Garber, Michael Vartan, Melissa George, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly, David Anders, Kevin Weisman

Synopsis: As season three of the ABC espionage series gets under way, secret agent Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) has still not entirely adjusted to the startling revelation that she has somehow lost track of two years in her life -- and that her partner and erstwhile lover Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan) Read More

Alias: Almost Thirty Years

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Syd (Jennifer Garner) and Jack (Victor Garber) join forces against both the SD-6 and CIA for the sake of their too-inquisitive friend, Will (Bradley Cooper). Also looking out for Will's safety is Vaughn (Michael Vartan), who in putting an end to a vital Read More

Alias: Q and A

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Taken into custody by the FBI, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) is relentlessly grilled about her own espionage activities and her involvement in the Rambaldi prophecies. What follows is essentially the "backstory" of Sydney's entire life, complete with painful memories of Daniel's murder, SD-6's Read More

Alias: Season 02

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Jennifer Garner, Victor Garber, Michael Vartan, Lena Olin, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly, Bradley Cooper, Merrin Dungey, Kevin Weisman, David Anders

Synopsis: Cunningly presaged by the cliffhanger at the end of season one, the first episode of Alias' second season confirmed what heroine Sydney A. Bristow (Jennifer Garner) -- college student by day, counterespionage agent the rest of the time -- had feared most: that "The Man," the evil leader of a vast Read More

Alias: The Enemy Walks In

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Resolving the cliffhanger established at the end of season one, season two of Alias begins with college student-cum-secret agent Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) coming face to face with her presumed-dead mother, KGB agent Irina Derevko (Lena Olin, making her first appearance as a series regular). Read More

Alias: The Confession

Crew: Screenwriter, Teleplay By

Synopsis: Jack (Victor Garber) manages to avoid having to kill his own daughter, Sydney (Jennifer Garner), but our heroine isn't out of the woods yet. Still working for the CIA to topple rival agency SD-6, Sydney travels to Crete to locate the stealth technology being developed by the terrorist Hassan (Aharon Ipalé Read More

Alias: Page 47

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Hoping to get his hands on a vital missing page of the Rambaldi document -- and to beat the evil Mr. Sark (David Anders) and his confederates to the punch -- Vaughn (Michael Vartan) prevails upon Sydney (Jennifer Garner) to insinuate her way into the home of sinister SD-6 chieftain Sloane (Ron Rifkin Read More

Joy Ride

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski, Jessica Bowman, Stuart Stone

Synopsis: After forays into film noir, thrillers, dramas, and even documentaries, director John Dahl tries the teen horror genre on for size. Paul Walker stars as Lewis Thomas, a college freshman embarking on a cross-country road trip during summer break to pick up his girlfriend Venna (Leelee Sobieski). Read More

Alias: Truth Be Told

Crew: Director, Screenwriter, Teleplay By

Synopsis: The 90-minute debut episode of Alias introduces Jennifer Garner as Sydney A. Bristow, who like many other undergraduates is working her way through college. Unlike her friends and fellow students, however, Sydney is not permitted to discuss her "outside job," not even with her roommate, Francie (Merrin Dungey Read More

Alias [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Synopsis: The weekly, hour-long TV adventure series Alias wasted no time in establishing a high level of suspense. Its first episode, "Truth Be Told," ran a full 65 minutes, with no commercial interruptions -- and be assured that few viewers were willing to leave their seats for the duration. Jennifer Read More

Alias: So It Begins...

Crew: Screenwriter, Teleplay By

Synopsis: Realizing that her secret-agent father, Jack (Victor Garber), is connected with the murder of her fiancé, Danny, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) agrees to work hand in glove with the CIA as a double agent, to bring down her present employers at SD-6 once and for all. Sydney's first counterespionage Read More

Alias: Spirit

Crew: Screenwriter, Teleplay By

Synopsis: Her cover blown, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) is trapped in an SD-6 torture chamber by the sinister Sloane (Ron Rifkin), who has arranged an elaborate -- and very painful -- charade in order to coerce a confession from her. Sydney's dad, Jack (Victor Garber), must convince Sloane that she is still Read More

Alias: Season 01

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Jennifer Garner, Victor Garber, Michael Vartan, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly, Bradley Cooper, Merrin Dungey, Kevin Weisman

Synopsis: Viewers who tuned into the premiere episode of ABC's espionage series Alias did so already knowing the basic premise: Heroine Sydney A. Bristow (Jennifer Garner) lived a double life, as a "typical" college undergraduate and as an uncover agent for a government organization which she assumed to be Read More

The Suburbans

Crew: Producer

Actors: Craig Bierko, Amy Brenneman, Antonio Fargas, Will Ferrell, Tony Guma, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ben Stiller

Synopsis: Answering the question of "Where have all the New Wavers gone?" is The Suburbans, a comedy from first-time director Donal Lardner Ward, who also stars and co-wrote the screenplay. In 1981, power pop band The Suburbans had it all -- big hair, skinny ties and a hit record. But they never followed up Read More

Felicity: Todd Mulcany, Part 1

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Felicity: Todd Mulcany, Part 2

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Felicity: Docuventary

Crew: Screenwriter

Felicity: The Force

Crew: Screenwriter

Felicity: Felicity Was Here

Crew: Screenwriter

Felicity: The Fugue

Crew: Screenwriter

Armageddon

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Will Patton

Synopsis: Michael Bay (The Rock) directed this science fiction action thriller in the When Worlds Collide tradition. After astronomy students discover a comet-asteroid collision, an asteroid fragment "the size of the Super Dome" threatens. It's destroyed by a secret USA defense in space, but a large chunk Read More

Felicity: Hot Objects

Crew: Screenwriter

Felicity [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Synopsis: Beginning on September 29, 1998, as a "teen angst" romantic drama, the weekly, 60-minute WB series Felicity evolved into a "young adult angst" affair by the time the series ran its course on May 22, 2002. Each of the series' four seasons represented a different year in the college life of its Read More

Felicity: Drawing the Line, Part 1

Crew: Screenwriter

Felicity: Finally

Crew: Screenwriter

Felicity: The Last Stand

Crew: Screenwriter

Felicity: Pilot

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: William Monaghan

Synopsis: Sensitive doctor's daughter Felicity Porter (Keri Russell) doesn't know where she's headed when she graduates from high school, but her long-time crush on classmate Ben Covington (Scott Speedman) provides some momentum. She decides to follow Ben and attend college in New York City. Not only does Read More

Felicity: Drawing the Line, Part 2

Crew: Screenwriter