{{short description|American screenwriter}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox writer | name = Josh Klausner | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education =Princeton University | employer = | occupation = Screenwriter | title = | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse =Hyatt Bass | children =2 sons | parents = | relatives =Sid Bass <small>(father-in-law)</small><br/>Anne Hendricks Bass <small>(mother-in-law)</small> | box_width = }} '''Josh Klausner''' is an American screenwriter who wrote ''Date Night'' (2010) and ''Shrek Forever After'' (2010).
==Biography==
===Early life=== Josh Klausner graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?r=31137|title=Josh Klausner - MYmovies|first=Mo-Net s.r.l.|last=Milano-Firenze|website=www.mymovies.it}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oiFbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA59|title=Princeton Alumni Weekly|volume=92| page=59|date=23 August 1991|publisher=princeton alumni weekly|via=Google Books}}</ref> After college, he won a Sundance Student Academy Award for a short film he had made.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Klausner |first=Josh |date=2017-10-06 |title=How an Independent Filmmaker Went From Being the Farrelly Brothers’ Assistant to Making the Movies That Studios Wouldn’t |url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/josh-klausner-wanderland-hamptons-film-festival-1201884614/ |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}}</ref>
===Career=== He started his career in the movie industry as an assistant for ''Dumb & Dumber'' in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0458441/|title=Josh Klausner|website=IMDb}}</ref> He then worked as the second unit director for ''Kingpin'' in 1996, ''There’s Something About Mary'' in 1998, ''Me, Myself & Irene'' in 2000, and ''Shallow Hal'' in 2001.<ref name="varietystuart">Stuart Miller, [https://variety.com/2010/digital/news/josh-klausner-learned-about-laughs-on-the-set-1118028111/ Josh Klausner: Learned about laughs on the set], ''Variety'', December 3, 2010</ref>
He was the screenwriter of ''The 4th Floor'' (1999), ''Date Night'' (2010), and ''Shrek Forever After'' (2010).<ref name="varietystuart"/> In 2018, he was replaced by Jon Croker in the screenwriting of the animated film adaptation of ''High in the Clouds''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Koller |first=Cameron |date=2018-01-10 |title=Paul McCartney Taps New Writer for Animated Movie |url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/2018/01/paul-mccartney-taps-new-writer-for-animated-movie/ |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=www.animationmagazine.net}}</ref>
===Personal life=== He is married to Hyatt Bass, a novelist and Texas oil heiress. They have two sons. They reside in a 12,000 square-foot house on Greenwich Street in the West Village, Manhattan, New York City. The house, a former film studio, was redesigned by architect Annabelle Selldorf for them.<ref name="nytimes">{{Cite news |last=Satow |first=Julie |date=2013-10-24 |title=Palaces-in-the-Making |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/realestate/palaces-in-the-making.html |access-date=2024-05-16 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The house, described as "a fortress", was sold for $42.5 million in 2014, "one of most expensive single-family houses to ever sell in Manhattan".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Budin |first=Jeremiah |date=2014-09-15 |title=West Village's Impenetrable Fortress Mansion Sells for $42.5M |url=https://ny.curbed.com/2014/9/15/10046950/west-villages-impenetrable-fortress-mansion-sells-for-42-5m |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530004615/http://ny.curbed.com/2014/9/15/10046950/west-villages-impenetrable-fortress-mansion-sells-for-42-5m |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 30, 2016 |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=Curbed NY |language=en}}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" ! Year ! Title ! Director ! Writer |- | 2000 | ''The 4th Floor'' | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |- | 2007 | ''Shrek the Third'' | {{no}} | {{partial|Additional}} |- | rowspan=2|2010 | ''Date Night'' | {{no}} | {{yes}} |- | ''Shrek Forever After'' | {{no}} | {{yes}} |- | 2018 | ''Wanderland'' | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |- | TBA | ''(Saint) Peter'' | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |}
'''Production assistant''' * ''Dumb & Dumber'' (1994)
'''Second unit director''' * ''Kingpin'' (1996) * ''There's Something About Mary'' (1998) * ''Me, Myself & Irene'' (2000) * ''Shallow Hal'' (2001)
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0458441}}
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