Jesse Warn is an American
television director
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,
film director
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, and
screenwriter
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...
. He is well known for his work on the
Starz
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drama ''
Spartacus
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'' and for
The CW
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's ''
The Originals'', ''
Arrow
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'', ''
The Flash
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'' and ''
Supergirl
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''. Warn also directed and made his screenwriting debut in the film ''
Nemesis Game
''Nemesis Game'' is a 2003 mystery-thriller film directed and written by Jesse Warn. The story itself involves the main character, Sara Novak (played by Carly Pope), solving complex riddles and mysterious deaths of people around her.
Plot
The ...
''.
Career
He began his career writing and directing the 1999
short film
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''9 Across'', starring
Rena Owen Renas may refer to:
Places
* Rena, Badajoz, a municipality in Extremadura, Spain
* Rena, Norway, a village in Innlandet county, Norway
* Rena, Washington, a community in Clallam County, Washington, United States
People
* Rena (given name), list o ...
. In 2000, he wrote and directed his second short film, ''Little Samurai''.
He then segued to television work, directing for series such as, ''
Legend of the Seeker
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'', ''
V'', ''
Criminal Minds
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'', ''
The Vampire Diaries
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'', ''
The Originals'' and ''
True Blood
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''.
''Spartacus''
Having had directed the first installment of the
Starz
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mini-series ''
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena'', "Past Transgressions", Warn was hired as a director for the sequel series ''
Spartacus: War of the Damned''. He ultimately directed eight episodes ("The Thing in the Pit", "Great and Unfortunate Things", "Kill Them All", "A Place in This World", "Sacramentum", "Wrath of the Gods", "Wolves at the Gate", "Mors Indecepta").
''Arrow'', ''The Flash'' and ''Supergirl''
In winter 2014, Warn directed his first episode of the
DC Comics
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DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with their f ...
produced
Green Arrow origin series ''
Arrow
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'', which was episode 19, of season 2, "The Man Under the Hood", and featured characters crossing over from the series' impending spin-off, ''
The Flash
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''.
Warn directed the third episode of ''The Flash''s first season, "Things You Can't Outrun", which featured the introduction of future-superhero
Ronnie Raymond
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.
He directed the 8th episode of ''Arrows 3rd season, "The Brave and the Bold", which again featured a crossover event with ''The Flash''.
It also introduced the supervillain
Digger Harkness/Captain Boomerang. His next helming episode was with the season's twelfth, "Uprising". It explored the motivations and genesis of
The Dark Archer/Malcolm Merlyn.
He directed the 17th installment of the year, "Suicidal Tendencies", from a script by co-producer
Keto Shimizu
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. It saw the reformation of
Task Force X, with new member
Cupid/Carrie Cutter; and explored the past of
Deadshot
Deadshot (Floyd Lawton) is a supervillain and antihero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by David Vern Reed, Lew Schwartz and Bob Kane, the character made his first appearance in ''Batman (comic book), Batman'' #59 ...
.
Arrow Credits;
2.19: The Man under the Hood,
3.8: The Brave and the Bold,
3.12: Uprising,
3.17: Suicidal Tendencies,
4.10: Blood Debts,
5.23: Lian Yu.
The Flash Credits;
1.3: Thing's You Can't Out Run,
2.2: Flash of Two Worlds,
2.22: Invincible,
3.1: Flashpoint.
Supergirl Credits;
1.6: Red Faced,
3.1: Girl of Steel,
3.4 The Faithful,
3.10 Legion of Superheroes,
3.13 Both Sides Now,
3.17 Trinity,
3.23 Battles Lost and Won,
4.1 American Alien,
4.3 Man of Steel,
4.9 Elseworlds, Part 3,
4.22 The Quest for Peace,
5.1 Event Horzion,
5.9 Crisis on Infnite Earths, Part 1,
5.13 It's a Super Life,
6.1 Rebirth,
6.2 A Few Good Women,
6.10 Still I Rise,
6.17 I Believe in a Thing Called Love, and
6.20
Kara
References
External links
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American film directors
American television directors
American screenwriters
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)