Destin Daniel Cretton

Directing

23-11-1978

He/Him

Destin Yori Daniel Cretton is an American filmmaker best known for directing the drama films Short Term 12 (2013), The Glass Castle (2017), and Just Mercy (2019), as well as the Marvel Studios films Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) and Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026). Description above from the Wikipedia article Destin Daniel Cretton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Tokyo Vice

Executive Producer

A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.

American Born Chinese

Executive Producer

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Action & Adventure

Average teenager Jin Wang juggles his high school social life with his immigrant home life. When he meets a new foreign student on the first day of the school year, even more worlds collide as Jin is unwittingly entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods.

Wonder Man

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Follows Simon Williams, also known in Marvel Comics as Wonder Man. Described as a Hollywood satire.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

The Shack

A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Science Fiction

The fourth installment in the Spider-Man franchise, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Plot TBA.

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Tokyo Vice

Executive Producer

A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.

Just Mercy

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

The Shack

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The Glass Castle

A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. To...

Short Term 12

A day at a group home for troubled adolescents. Denim is the head counselor, involved somehow with Natalia, another counselor. During the day, we watch them and other staff deal with a boy who's getting into fights though he has only a week to go before his 18th birthday, a girl whose birthday it is, a foul-mouthed lad, and others. Denim uses music to calm one youth, orients a new staff member, sn...

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day

In the Garden of Tulips

Executive Producer

Closing Dynasty

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

The Glass Castle

Switchfoot: Close to Our Hearts, The Bro-Am Documentary

I Am Not a Hipster

Deacon's Mondays

Drakmar: A Vassal's Journey

Camera Operator

Bartholomew's Song

Longbranch: A Suburban Parable

By the Time the Sun Is Hot

TV Shows (Production)

American Born Chinese

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Movies (Acting)

Short Term 12: Behind the Scenes

TV Shows (Acting)

Marvel Studios Assembled

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter