Oscar-winning producer Jon Landau has died. The veteran film producer passed away on Friday in Los Angeles with his son confirming the death.
No cause has presently been revealed. Landau was 63 years old when he passed.
In recent years Landau has been a secondary face of the “Avatar” franchise, James Cameron’s right-hand man and the one often answering questions about the status of the sequels in their various stages of production.
Landau was the son of famed producer Ely Landau who made such films as “The Iceman Cometh ,” “The Pawnbroker,” “Long Day’s Journey into Night” and “The Holcroft Covenant”.
Jon started out as a production manager on films like Michael Mann’s “Manhunter” and “F/X”. He co-produced both Warren Beatty’s “Dick Tracy” and the Rick Moranis-led “Honey I Shrunk the Kids” and became an executive vice president of feature film production at 20th Century Fox in the early 1990s.
During that tenure, he oversaw films like “Die Hard 2,” “The Last of the Mohicans,” “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “True Lies”. He left his position at Fox to work on “Titanic” which became a global sensation.
Since then he’s stuck with Cameron, the pair producing the “Solaris” remake and “Alita: Battle Angel” together. On all the “Avatar” films, Cameron directed and Landau produced.
Source: THR