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Louis Leterrier was Artistic Director on The Transporter. He recently helmed Unleashed, produced by Luc Besson, starring Jet Li, Morgan Freeman and Bob Hoskins.

Leterrier is a native of Paris. He developed a love of cinema at an early age, winning several awards for short films before turning 18 Leterrier left France to study film at New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. He was an Assistant Director and worked on visual effects on Twentieth Century Fox's Alien Resurrection, directed by fellow countryman Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He then was an Assistant Director on the French-U.S. co-production The Tourist Trap, on Luc Besson's historical epic The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, and on the big-budget Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, adapted from the comics. Leterrier again assisted Besson on a commercial for L'Oreal, shortly after which the famed filmmaker approached Leterrier about The Transporter.