Foster Driver - Top Tier Portfolio General Meeting

Foster Driver was born and raised in South Central, Los Angeles. He began his career in the William Morris Agency mailroom, helping to create a team that focused on packaging intellectual property based on comic books, graphic novels and video games for film and TV adaptation. He made his foray into the studio system when he joined Warner Bros. Pictures and worked on projects such as MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, MAN OF STEEL among others. From there, he went on to become a Creative Executive at Columbia Pictures, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, where he helped to develop such films as VENOM, BAD BOYS 3, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG, and BLOODSHOT before leaving to join The Walt Disney Studios in their Live-Action Motion Pictures Production group.

During his tenure at Disney, Foster helped to shepherd the development and production of films such as PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES, Jon Favreau’s THE LION KING, JUNGLE CRUISE, Tim Burton’s DUMBO and the live-action LILO & STITCH. To date, Foster’s films have grossed over $4.1 billion at the worldwide box office. For his efforts, Foster was named to The Hollywood Reporter’s 2017 Next Gen: Execs 35 and Under.

After leaving his position as Vice President, Production at Disney, Foster went on to join the team at Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society where he worked on WITHOUT REMORSE and developed films based on Superman and Static Shock in collaboration with DC Entertainment. In 2021, Foster partnered with his long-time colleague, Zoë Kent, to form Driver+Kent Media, producing several projects across TV and film for Disney+, Amazon/Freevee, AMC Network, A+E Studios and more.