Jason Keller

Jason Keller (born December 12, 1968, Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has also been credited under the anagram pen name of Arnell Jesko. Keller is a New Harmony Writing Fellowship recipient, a two time Bronx New Voices nominee, a Satellite Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay, an Oglethorpe Award nominee and the recipient of an IFJA Hoosier Award. Keller's father is former major league pitcher Ron Keller, who played for the Minnesota Twins. Career Keller began his screenwriting career by writing Marc Forster's film Machine Gun Preacher, which was released by Relativity Media in 2011. Keller went on to write Tarsem Singh's film Mirror Mirror, starring Julia Roberts, as well as Mikael Håfström's 2013 action film Escape Plan, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. He is also the executive producer of the fifth movie in the Die Hard franchise, A Good Day to Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis. Most recently, Keller wrote Ford v. Ferrari, which was directed by James Mangold and starred Matt Damon and Christian Bale. The movie was released in November, 2019 by 20th Century Fox. The movie was nominated for four Academy Awards, including a Best Picture nomination. In 2022, it was announced that Keller wrote the upcoming biopic about famed female Indycar driver Janet Guthrie who became the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 in 1977. Hilary Swank will star in the film which is being produced by Keller, Joel David Moore, Rishi Bajaj and Philip Schneider. The film is planned for a mid-2024 start.