James Wan (born February 27 1977) is an Australian producer, screenwriter, and film director. He is most widely known for directing the horror film Saw. He also directed Dead Silence and Death Sentence.
Met fellow collaborator and friend Leigh Whannel at film school in Australia.
Comes from Melbourne, Australia.
Attended the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology along with close friend Leigh Whannell
Member of the unofficial "Splat Pack," a term coined by film historian Alan Jones in Total Film magazine for the modern wave of directors making brutally violent horror films. The other "Splat Pack" members are Alexandre Aja, Darren Lynn Bousman, Neil Marshall (I), Greg Mclean, Eli Roth, Leigh Whannell & Rob Zombie.
His father passed away when he was 14 years of age.
