And Lin had just turned down the most lucrative offer of his life—to direct Pretty Much Only White People Got Oscar Nominations. But in the editing bay, Lin is finding all sorts of minuscule problems.

Lin grew up in Orange County, California and attended the University of California, San Diego and the UCLA where he graduated with an MFA in Film Directing. 46 Year Olds.

Success comes from 10 years of that mentality.”Lin, who says he works Thanksgivings because he’s thankful that his father only ever took that one day off, laughs when I ask him if it’s true.“Vin says you finish what you started,” he says, “and he’s very persuasive.”This is why Lin was hurt when some fans—including the original Sulu, George Takei, who voice-acted on Lin’s Bruce Lee mockumentary, He expected snark. Most Popular #70824. Justin was born in 1970s, in the middle of Generation X. Lin was previously featured as a boy in some of Lin's Fast and Furious movies. Prior to his directorial debut Shopping for Fangs, Lin worked as director of photography on the short action film The Game (1995) and the drama Flow(19…

They weren’t great cars—one was a garbage truck—but when he looks back at his career now, “it all goes back to that ramp,” Lin says.

Lin is best known for directing four of the films in the Lin grew up in Orange County, California and attended the University of California, San Diego and the UCLA where he graduated with an MFA in Film Directing. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan alongside his brother Jimmy who’s also an actor.

At the playground, he learned that, in America, even assholes respect you when you put points on the board. There are 36 individuals that go by the name of Justin Lin. ... Fast & Furious 6, which had the largest Memorial Day Weekend gross for a Universal Pictures production in history. Oqwe Lin (born 2009) is the son of director and producer Justin Lin who had a featured part as an alien boy in the feature film Star Trek Beyond in 2016. His first codirected film, 1997’s Growing up in the 1980s, Lin endured a barrage of racist references to the Indiana Jones sidekick Short Round or “It was daring even in the Asian American community,” says Cho, noting that the film flew in the face of respectable family melodramas like Cut to the 2002 Sundance Film Festival: The premiere kills. When he was 8, the Lins invested their life savings in a fish-and-chips shop in Anaheim, California, and moved to nearby Buena Park, where they worked nonstop, overstayed their visas, and lived in fear of deportation until President Reagan’s Immigration Reform and Control Act granted them amnesty in 1987.In that greasy shop in the shadow of Disneyland, Lin saw the way customers either respected his father, his hero, or regarded him as “just an Asian immigrant, and they’d treat him like shit.” One night, a violent customer called Lin a “fucking Chink” and shattered the shop’s glass door with a punch—at a time when any repair was a precious expense. The idea that Dom’s brothers are Han and Brian and Roman and Santos—that’s a pretty intense idea.” The franchise takes on “the lack of diversity in Hollywood with a grin and a popcorn smile,” Rodriguez says.Under Lin’s guidance, the franchise leaped from $158 million (“I’m going to bring him back,” Diesel says, when asked if Lin will direct the finale.

“You didn’t see a multicultural family. His team animates the sequence, then reanimates it, over and over, as Lin adjusts the ships’ flight paths. The movie is stylish and brash, and nobody knows how to sell it. Over lunch at an outdoor restaurant in downtown LA, he grins wryly: “It was, ‘You’ve got six months.’”Abrams, like many Hollywood insiders, knew Lin had, as he puts it, “command of a large cast, a great sense of action, a sense of humor,” and “an ability to tell stories that would speak to cultures all over the world.” Just as important, he knew Lin was fearless—and had an uncanny ability to pull off ambitious shoots with big stars under extreme stress. But like his hero Magic, Lin works hard to create his own shots—and he’s determined to leave it all on the floor.Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our Meet Justin Lin, the Most Important Blockbuster Director You've Never Heard Of

“He’s the one who got together with Vin and said, ‘We can turn this into something powerful.’”Before Lin took over, the first two films pitted ethnic clubs against each other. Fox Searchlight execs worry it will set a bad example for Asian American teens and suggest Lin add a moralistic, crime-doesn’t-pay ending.