Matthew George Matt Reeves born April 27 1966 in Rockville Center New York USA is an American screenwriter director and producer He began making movies at age eight directing friends and using a windup camera Reeves befriended filmmaker JJ Abrams when both were 13 years old and they were making short films together When Reeves and Abrams were 15 or 16 years old Steven Spielberg hired them to transfer some of his own Super 8 films to videotape Reeves began his career as a screenwriter for the films Under Siege 2 Dark Territory 1995 and The Pallbearer 1996 the latter of which marked his featurelength directorial debut He then transitioned into television as a director and cocreator of the drama series Felicity 19982002 alongside JJ Abrams Reeves has since directed the horror film Cloverfield 2008 the romantic horror film Let Me In 2010 and the science fiction sequels Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2014 and War for the Planet of the Apes 2017 In February 2017 Warner Bros announced that Reeves would direct The Batman 2022 by DC starring Robert Pattinson
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