‘Karate Kid’ Writer Rob Lieber Signs With UTA

Rob Lieber, the writer of the latest Karate Kid movie that is currently in production, has signed with UTA for representation in all areas.

The writer was previously at Verve. That agency, however, underwent an internal battle amongst partners that went public, leading to the ouster of one of the founding partners. Several literary clients were caught in the brouhaha’s wake, with UTA picking several of them up in the last month or so. The agency previously signed comics author and screenwriter Brian K. Vaughan and Masters of the Air co-creator Jon Orloff.

Lieber made a name for himself in the studio family space, with producer credits in Sony’s hit live-action/CG hybrid Peter Rabbit as well as Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, both released in 2018, and Disney’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which starred Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner.

Among his current projects are penning the script for The Shrinking of the Treehorns, an animated musical that director Ron Howard is in post-production on for Netflix, and writing Oh The Places You’ll Go for Warner Animation Group, an adaptation of the Dr. Seuss book that has John Chu on board to direct and Bad Robot producing.

Lieber is on set for Karate Kid, Sony’s latest installment of the coming-of-age martial arts franchise. Ben Wang, the star of Disney+’s American Born Chinese, leads the cast of the movie that sees Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio reprising their characters from previous films.

Lieber continues to be repped by Fourth Wall Management and Sloane Offer.