Simon Cellan Jones

Simon Cellan Jones is a veteran British director, renowned for his quality work in television since 1989 but also for a handful of theatrical features, starting with playwright Joe Penhall’s screen version of his play, Some Voices (2000), starring the acclaimed duo of Daniel Craig (winner of the British Independent Film Award for best actor) and Kelly Macdonald, with David Morrissey.

Cellan Jones’s second feature was the Newcastle-set rom-com, The One and Only (2002), co-starring Justine Waddell and Richard Roxburgh, and adapted by screenwriter Peter Flannery from Susanne Bier’s hit Danish movie, Den Eneste Ene/The One and Only (1999).

Cellan Jones took a two-decade break from theatrical movies and returned to the big screen with the Lionsgate-released adventure movie, Arthur the King (2024), starring Mark Wahlberg (with whom Cellan Jones first collaborated on the streaming Apple TV+ film, The Family Plan (2023)), with Nathalie Emmanuel, Simu Liu, Bear Grylls, and Paul Guilfoyle, and based on Mikael Lindnord’s 2016 adventure memoir, Arthur—The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home.