Erica Lee
Partner, Thunder Road Pictures
About Speaker
Born in NYC, Erica Lee graduated with honors from Florida State University with a degree in communications and immediately entered the entertainment industry with an internship at NBC Studios in Burbank. Following her internship, she began working at Creative Artists Agency as an assistant in the talent department. A fifteen-year veteran of Thunder Road, Erica started as the assistant to Chairman Basil Iwanyk. Now President of Production, she has produced some of the company’s most successful films including all three installments of the John Wick franchise, Taylor Sheridan’s chilling Wind River, the critically acclaimed Sicario, directed by Oscar-nominated Denis Villeneuve, starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro, as well as the Stefano Sollima directed sequel, Sicario: Day of the Soldado. Erica has also shepherded development on such titles as A Star is Born, We Are Marshall, Brooklyn’s Finest, The Town, The Expendables franchise, Clash of the Titans and its sequel, Wrath of the Titans, and served as co-producer on Universal Pictures’ Seventh Son, directed by Oscar-nominated Sergei Bodrov, starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore, Oscar-nominee Matthew Heineman’s gripping narrative debut, A Private War, Andrea Di Stefano’s The Informer, starring Rosamund Pike and Joel Kinnaman, and Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s The Current War, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon. Most recently, Erica produced Ric Roman Waugh’s white-knuckle disaster thriller, Greenland, starring Gerard Butler. Her other recent titles include Halle Berry’s hard-hitting directorial debut, Bruised, and Tarik Saleh’s black op thriller, The Contractor, starring Chris Pine. Erica is currently in post-production on the fourth installment of John Wick, which reunites Keanu Reeves with director Chad Stahelski, as well as Mouly Surya’s Trigger Warning starring Jessica Alba; John Woo’s heralded US action film return SILENT NIGHT starring Joel Kinnaman; Stefon Bristol’s sophomore film BREATHE starring Jennifer Hudson and Milla Jovovich; Ric Waugh’s Kandahar starring Gerard Butler, Dev Patel’s directorial debut with the revenge thriller Monkey Man, and Jim Strouse’s romantic comedy Text For You, starring Priyanka Chopra-Jonas and Sam Heughan featuring original music by Celine Dion. Erica is also working on projects expanding the World of John Wick, including the limited series The Continental and the first feature spinoff, Ballerina, starring Ana De Armas, which recently began pre-production.