Joby Harold

Joby Harold is an English screenwriter, producer and director who runs Safehouse Pictures with his producing partner, Tory Tunnell. The company was co-founded in 2005.

Joby Harold

Career

Harold's latest projects include Paramount's Novocaine (2025 film) starring Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, and directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen. Safehouse recently produced the A24 documentary Andre is an Idiot, which received a standing ovation at its premiere at the Sundance film festival where it was in dramatic competition. Harold's projects are the upcoming films Space Mountain ^[1] and Atlas^[2] starring Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu, and Sterling K. Brown both of which he will be producing alongside Tunnell. He is also working on Monarch: Legacy of Monsters^[3] with Legendary starring Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Ren Watabe, Anna Sawai, and Kiersey Clemons. Harold is developing the movie I.F. ^[4] with Mike Mitchell attached to direct and Tiffany Haddish set to star.

Recently, he wrote and Executive Produced the series Obi-Wan Kenobi for Disney+^[5] and also worked on Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, the last in the live action Transformers film series, for Paramount Pictures as a sequel to Bumblebee, along with a sci-fi thriller Cloaker for Warner Bros., which Safehouse Pictures is producing. Previously, he executive produced John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, after writing on John Wick: Chapter 2. He also executive produced Edge of Tomorrow for Doug Liman, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt as well as co-writing King Arthur: Legend of the Sword starring Charlie Hunnam and Jude Law, which he and Tory Tunnell produced under their Safehouse banner. He also wrote a draft for the upcoming superhero movie The Flash, as part of the DC Extended Universe which Matthew Vaughn and Robert Zemeckis were formally circling to direct, followed by Sam Raimi, Marc Webb, and Phil Lord and Chris Miller. He co-wrote the zombie movie Army of the Dead, alongside director Zack Snyder and Shay Hatten, which was released on Netflix in May 2021.

His company Safehouse Pictures is producing several projects including the Battle of Britain for director Ridley Scott, Liberators with Michael B. Jordan attached to star, Patricia Arquette’s directorial debut Love Canal, and the feature adaptation of Space Invaders. In television, Harold produced the female drama Spinning Out at Netflix, starring January Jones and Kaya Scodelario. She previously was a partner with Weed Road Pictures, until they struck a deal with Sony in 2015.^[6]

He previously executive produced the WGN series Underground. Harold broke into a business in 2005, writing and directing the film Awake for The Weinstein Company, starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard and Lena Olin, which Tunnell also produced.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Producer	Writer	Director(s)	Notes
2007	Awake	No	Yes	Himself	Directorial debut
2014	Edge of Tomorrow	Executive	No	Doug Liman	Also script revisions
2016	My Blind Brother	Executive	No	Sophie Goodhart
2017	King Arthur: Legend of the Sword	Yes	Yes	Guy Ritchie
2018	Robin Hood	Executive	No	Otto Bathurst
2019	John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum	Executive	No	Chad Stahelski	Also script revisions
2021	Army of the Dead	No	Yes	Zack Snyder
2023	Transformers: Rise of the Beasts	No	Yes	Steven Caple Jr.
	The Flash	No	Story	Andy Muschietti
2024	Atlas	Yes	No	Brad Peyton
2025	Novocaine	Yes	No	Dan Berk and Robert Olsen	Post-production

Television series

Year(s)	Title	Executive Producer	Writer	Notes	Network
2016–2017	Underground	Yes	No	20 episodes	WGN America
2020	Spinning Out	Yes	No	10 episodes	Netflix
2022	Obi-Wan Kenobi	Yes	Yes	6 episodes	Disney+
2023–present	Monarch: Legacy of Monsters[7]	Yes	No	10 episodes	Apple TV+

References

1. Jeff Spry (10 December 2020). "Disney's Space Mountain is going to blast off into the feature film frontier (report)". Space.com. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
2. Kroll, Justin (24 August 2022). "From Marvel Superhero To Jennifer Lopez's Adversary, Simu Liu Lands First Villain Role In Netflix's 'Atlas'; Sterling K. Brown Also Joins Cast". Deadline. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
3. Kroll, Justin (20 January 2022). "Apple TV+ Lands Godzilla & Titans Series Based On Legendary's Monsterverse". Deadline. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
4. Fleming, Mike Jr. (26 August 2021). "Tiffany Haddish To Star In 'I.F.'; Mike Mitchell Directing Darren Lemke Imaginary Friend Family Comedy For Universal". Deadline. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
5. Otterson, Joe (2 April 2020). "Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney Plus Series Enlists Joby Harold as New Writer (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on 6 November 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
6. McNary, Dave (28 January 2015). "Safehouse Signs First-Look Deal With Sony, Splits With Weed Road". Variety. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
7. "Pachinko Star Mari Yamamoto Joins Apple's Godzilla and Titans Series". ComingSoon.net. 19 August 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022.

External links

• Joby Harold at IMDb