Joe Carnahan Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Brother of screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan, Joe Carnahan has contributed to the film world primarily as a director. After getting his start in the mid-'90s working in the promotional department of a California television station, Carnahan produced several short films and generated a certain...Read More

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Killing Pablo

Crew: Director

Actors: Christian Bale

Synopsis: The Yari Film Group moves forward with the biopic of Pablo Escobar with director Joe Carnahan heading up the adaptation of the book Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by author Mark Bowden. The film will follow the exploits of a Delta Force squad headed by Christian Bale as Read More

1/1/10
White Jazz

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Smokin' Aces director Joe Carnahan takes the helm for this adaptation of James Ellroy's novel concerning a corrupt LAPD lieutenant assigned to a high-profile case just as his notoriously debauched department is singled out for investigation. White Jazz is a screen adaptation of the fourth and Read More

1/1/10
Bunny Lake Is Missing

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Narc and Smokin' Aces director Joe Carnahan teams with actress Reese Witherspoon for this remake of the 1965 Otto Preminger thriller concerning the mystery that unfolds when a woman reports her daughter missing and the police investigation reveals that no such girl ever existed. Pulitzer Read More

2009
The Remarkable Fellows

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jason Bateman

Synopsis: After appearing in the director's 2007 shootem-up Smokin' Aces, Jason Bateman again teams with filmmaker Joe Carnahan for this action comedy. From an idea concocted by Bateman himself, Remarkable Fellows follows the adventures of a pair of brothers who elaborately exact revenge at the behest of Read More

2009
Pride and Glory

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich

Synopsis: Director Gavin O'Connor collaborates with Narc director/screenwriter Joe Carnahan on this family-focused police drama concerning an honest homicide detective (Edward Norton) assigned to investigate the precinct run by his potentially crooked older brother (Noah Emmerich). As the investigation Read More

10/24/08
Playing for Change: Peace Through Music

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Filmmakers Jonathan Walls and Mark Johnson combine the work of musicians on four continents into one global song in an inspirational tribute to the remarkable power of music. Over the course of one year, Walls and Johnson traveled the globe in order to explore the concept of music as a tool in Read More

2008
Smokin' Aces

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Alicia Keys, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven

Synopsis: When a shifty magician turns state's evidence against a Las Vegas underworld heavy, the high price placed on his head sparks a fevered race to rub the snitch out and collect a tidy paycheck in Narc director Joe Carnahan's dark action comedy. Buddy "Aces" Israel (Jeremy Piven) is a small time Read More

1/26/07
Narc

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ray Liotta, Jason Patric, Chi McBride, Busta Rhymes, Anne Openshaw

Synopsis: Suspended from the police force following an undercover drug bust gone horribly awry, Detroit undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis (Jason Patric) is reluctantly goaded back into active duty in hopes that he can help to crack the case of a slain fellow officer. Promised reinstatement in the Read More

12/20/02
Blood Guts Bullets & Octane

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Dan Leis, Joe Carnahan, Dan Harlan, Ken Rudulph, Hugh McChord

Synopsis: Sid (director Joe Carnahan) and Bob (Dan Leis) are two down-on-their-luck, very fast-talking used car salesmen with a lot full of lemons and a gaping hole in their finances, when, at their most vulnerable, they are offered a deal: Park a cherry Pontiac LeMans convertible for two days...and they Read More

1/15/99