In 1996, he co-starred in the drama "Expensive Rhyme" with Bonnie Beatilia and Gina Phillips, thus officially entering the entertainment circle. In 2000, starred in the crime drama " CSI--Crime Scene Investigation Season " directed by Richard Lewis .
In 2003, starred in the action movie " Blow on Touch " directed by Mark Lester . In 2004, co-starred in the comedy movie " Veronica Mars " with Kristen Anne Bell . In 2008, he participated in the crime comedy film " Sons of Anarchy " directed by Kurt Sutter .
In 2011, he directed the feature film "Vile" co-starring Eric Jay Beck and April Matson, thus starting his career as a director. In 2015, he served as the screenwriter of the action crime movie " Sicario, " which tells the story of an elite team of law enforcement officers and mysterious agents taking down a drug cartel, and was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay of the American Screenwriters Guild Award
.
In 2016, he served as the screenwriter of the crime film " Hell or High Water ", which was directed by David Markenz and co-starred with Chris Pine , Ben Foster and Jeff Bridges. It told about a pair of brothers. Trapped by the financial crisis, he desperately decided to rob a bank that forced them to desperately desperately, but encountered a story of a Texas patrol chasing after
him. With the film, he was nominated for the 89th Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay
and the 70th British Film And Television Art Academy Award Film Award-Best Original Screenplay Award
.
In 2017, self-written, directed and co-starred by Jeremy Lee Renner and Elizabeth Olsen , the thriller crime movie " Wind River ". The film uses the Indian settlement in Wyoming, western United States as the background of the story. It tells a hunter and a FBI agents, together investigating a death case of a young girl in the Indian Reserve of the Wind River Valley
, were shortlisted for the 70th Cannes International Film Festival, a kind of attention award
.
On November 15, 2020, the military action film "Cold-Blooded Titans" starring Michael B. Daniel has cancelled the North American theater release plan originally scheduled for February 26, 2021. "Cold-Blooded Titans" is assumed by Taylor Sheridan. screenwriter.