Joe Carnahan Overview

Joe Carnahan grew up in Detroit, Michigan. As a child, he was bitten by the movie bug and stayed up late at night to watch his favorite films on television, including Raiders of The Lost Ark, Jaws, Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory and Duel, watching them hundreds of times over the years. After graduating from high school, he enrolled at San Francisco State University, where he wrote and directed several short films. He developed one of the shorts into a full-length screenplay called Narc,... See All