Jeremy Coon
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Jeremy Coon was the executive producer and editor of the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite, which was reputedly made on a $400,000 budget and earned over $44 million[citation needed].
Coon attended film school at Brigham Young University and graduated in 1997 from Lloyd V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas.
He was friends at Brigham Young with fellow film student Jared Hess, where he was told of Hess' nascent screenplay for Dynamite and agreed to raise the money to produce the film. On the opening day of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, Coon sold the film to Fox Searchlight Pictures for $3.2 million.
After a 22-day shoot in Preston, Idaho, Coon edited the film during a nine-day cram session using Apple Final Cut Pro software for the first time. "We spent about a year assembling our crew -- 95 percent were friends from the BYU post department," he told the Apple publication Pro. "People would come by to check on me and I didn’t even know what time of day it was."
Rhys Southan, a filmmaker who attended high school with Coon, has begun a Beat Jeremy Coon blog that documents his efforts to become more famous than his classmate before their 10th high school reunion in 2007.
