Ashley Bell
Ashley Bell is an assistant director who worked alongside Rhonda Taylor and Phil Nee Nee as Second Assistant Director on Star Trek Beyond, directed by Justin Lin with First Assistant Director Nick Satriano. [1]
Career
Assistant director
Bell worked as trainee assistant director on the television movie 2gether (2000), the television series UC: Undercover (2001-02, featuring Bill Mondy and Brian Markinson and executive produced by Naren Shankar), Spy Game (2001), Lone Hero (2002, with Mark Metcalf), The Santa Clause 2 (2002), X2 (2003, starring Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn and Bruce Davison, written, directed and produced by Bryan Singer and produced by Stan Lee and Ralph Winter), Walking Tall (2004, starring Dwayne Johnson and with Neal McDonough and Barbara J. Tarbuck), Edison (2005, with Marco Sanchez, Robert Miano and Bill Mondy), and The Sandlot 2 (2005).
As assistant director, Bell worked on Josie and the Pussycats (2001, music by John Frizzell), Prozac Nation (2001), Thirteen Ghosts (2001, with F. Murray Abraham, production design by Sean Hargreaves and assistant dgc trainee Rhonda Taylor), Snow Dogs (2002, with Nichelle Nichols and music by John Debney), and Paycheck (2003).
Bell's credits as third assistant director include Fantastic Four (2005), John Tucker Must Die (2006), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Kickin' It Old Skool (2007, with Christopher McDonald and Alan Ruck), Reaper (2008, starring Ray Wise) and Battlestar Galactica (2008, co-created and produced by Ronald D. Moore and produced by Bradley Thompson and David Weddle), The Incredible Hulk (2008) and Watchmen (2009), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), The A-Team (2010), This Means War (2012, starring Chris Pine and Tom Hardy), and Fairly Legal (2011-12).
Bell also worked as third assistant director on Godzilla (2014), as second unit second assistant director on The Flash (2014, with Clancy Brown), as second assistant director on Motive (2015, with Roger R. Cross) and Descendants (2015), and as additional assistant director on Hidden (2015, with third assistant director Rhonda Taylor).
Production assistant
Bell worked as production assistant on The Net (1998-99), Double Jeopardy (1999, with Ashley Judd and Bruce Greenwood and art direction by Andrew Neskoromny), Reindeer Games (2000, with Clarence Williams III), Scary Movie (2000), Duets (2000), and Get Carter (2000, with stunt coordinator Mark DeAlessandro and second unit director Spiro Razatos).
As extras wrangler, Bell worked on Valentine (2001, with Adam Harrington), Saving Silverman (2001, with Mark Wagner), Freddy Got Fingered (2001, with Kavi Raz and first assistant director Kim H. Winther), and Catwoman (2004).
Bell worked as production assistant on The Santa Clause 2 (2002), as assistant to Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans on Fantastic Four (2005, produced by Stan Lee and Ralph Winter), as cast assistant on X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, starring Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn and Kelsey Grammer, with Shohreh Aghdashloo, Aaron Stanford, Chelah Horsdal, Julian Christopher and John Pyper-Ferguson, produced by Stan Lee and Ralph Winter, with assistant direction by Rhonda Taylor), as producer on the short comedy Sarah in the Dark (2008), and as additional voice talent on This Means War (2012, starring Chris Pine and Tom Hardy).