Rodney Rothman
Rothman at the 2018San Diego Comic-Con
Born	United States
Occupations	Filmmaker, writer

Rodney Rothman is an American filmmaker and author. He is known for his work onSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) (which served as his feature directorial debut),Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016),22 Jump Street (2014),Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), andGet Him to the Greek (2010), as well as being part of the writing staff of the showsUndeclared andLate Show with David Letterman. He has been nominated for fivePrimetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series.

Rothman is the author of the best-selling nonfiction humor bookEarly Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement. His writing has also appeared inThe New Yorker,GQ,The New York Times,The New York Times Magazine, andMcSweeney's Quarterly. His piece "My Fake Job" was included inThe Best American Nonrequired Reading. He has also written for other books, Such as Camp Camp by Rodger Bennet.

His work onSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse earned him theAcademy Award for Best Animated Feature, theGolden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film andAnnie Awards forDirecting andWriting in a Feature Production.

In 2005, Rothman wrote the bookEarly Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement.^[1] He has been nominated for fivePrimetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, and also wrote the scripts forGrudge Match,22 Jump Street andSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which served as his feature directorial debut. He co-directed the film withBob Persichetti andPeter Ramsey, and co-wrote withPhil Lord. His work on the film earned him theAcademy Award for Best Animated Feature, theGolden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film andAnnie Awards forDirecting andWriting in a Feature Production.

In 2021, Rothman partnered with formerMGM Co-President of Production Adam Rosenberg to formModern Magic, a media company focused "on creating event entertainment for the 21st-century audience, across animation and live-action". Upcoming projects include collaborations withStephen Curry,Billie Eilish,Finneas O'Connell,Neal Stephenson,Ricky Williams,Junji Ito, an original animated feature inspired by the music of the late rapperJuice WRLD, an animated feature based on the SXSW award-winning short filmNuevo Rico, another animated series with hour-long episodes based on Wendy and Richard Pini’s influential comic seriesElfquest, and a live-action feature thatQuinta Brunson is currently scripting forSony Pictures.^[2]

In August 2022, Rothman revealed on Twitter that he was the person whoChris Farley picked up and threw into a dumpster during Farley's appearance onLate Show with David Letterman in February 1996. Rothman was a writer at theLate Show at the time.^[3]

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