Perry Moore
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Perry Moore is the co-director and co-writer of “Lake City,” the searing southern drama that tells the story of a mother (Sissy Spacek) and son (Troy Garity, Jane Fonda’s real-life son) who reunite under desperate circumstances years after a family tragedy drove them apart. The film also stars Rebecca Romijn, Dave Matthews, Drea De Matteo, Colin Ford, and Keith Carradine, and is produced by Allison Sarofim, Mike Ryan, Donna Bascom, Weiman Seid, Sally Pope, and Mark Johnson.
Perry Moore (executive producer, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe”) was a longtime production executive for Walden Media who was instrumental in bringing The Chronicles of Narnia franchise to the company. After landing the rights to the C. S. Lewis series, he segued into a production deal with the company. The film represents his first as a motion picture executive producer.
He continues his role as executive producer of “Prince Caspian,” the next in the Chronicles of Narnia series, currently being filmed.
In addition to his work in production and development, The CS Lewis Company appointed Moore to write “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion” a New York Times Bestseller.
A longtime fan of children’s literature and comic books, Moore’s first novel, Hero, the first of a fantasy series about a group of modern-day superheroes, will be published by Hyperion this September. The young adult novel tells the story of the world’s first gay teen superhero. The industry’s foremost jacket designer, Chip Kidd, delivers his first YA cover with the book, and a big screen adaptation is in the works with comic book legend Stan Lee.
He is also co-directing a documentary about legendary children’s book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak with partners Hunter Hill and filmmaker Spike Jonze.
Moore hails from Virginia Beach, Virginia, and attended The Norfolk Academy. He majored in English at the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar, and later served as an intern in the White House for President Clinton before launching his entertainment career in talent and development at MTV and VH1. He followed that experience as part of the original production team for the upstart “Rosie O’Donnell Show,” one of daytime television’s most popular recent hits. Changing arenas, he segued into the motion picture world as a development executive for the late filmmaker Ted Demme (“Blow”) and producer Joel Stillerman before joining Walden Media, where he developed and oversaw such film projects as “I Am David,” the big-screen adaptation of Anne Holm’s acclaimed novel “North to Freedom.” During his tenure with Walden under Cary Granat, Moore also helped obtain and develop such forthcoming Walden projects as “Bridge to Terabithia,” “The Giver,” and “Manhunt.”
He is partnered with Allison Sarofim and Hunter Hill in the Bank Street Production Company.
He lives in New York with Hunter Hill.
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