An Academy Award®-nominated and Golden Globe® winning producer, Richard Suckle has been with film and TV production company Atlas Entertainment for over two decades, where he serves as a partner.
Suckle produced Warner Bros./DC Films Wonder Woman, bringing the world’s most iconic female super hero to the screen for the first time ever.
He also produced Suicide Squad, released in August 2016, earning over $745 million at the worldwide box office. The film brought the DC Comics’ super villain team to the big screen under the direction of David Ayer and broke the record for biggest August opening weekend, bringing in $133 million. Suicide Squad won the Academy Award® for best makeup and hairstyling, and also spawned the highest selling soundtrack released in 2016, which garnered a total of 5 Grammy®nominations. The film stars two-time Oscar® nominee Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Oscar® winner Jared Leto, Oscar® winner Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney and Cara Delevingne.
In 2013 Suckle produced David O. Russell’s critically acclaimed box office hit American Hustle, starring Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Jennifer Lawrence, which grossed more than $250 million dollars worldwide. Among its many accolades, the film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards® including a Best Picture nomination for Suckle. The film garnered three Golden Globe wins, including Best Picture – Musical or Comedy, three BAFTA wins, including Best Original Screenplay, and won numerous critics’ awards, including the New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Picture and the SAG Ensemble award. He collaborated with the award winning choreographer Mandy Moore on the film.
Suckle has been involved in producing other branded, franchise properties like the $275-million-plus worldwide box office live-action hit Scooby-Doo, and its sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. It is here where he collaborated with the choreographer Anne Fletcher. Currently in production, he is also producing the animated Scooby-Doo movie for Warner Bros., which is to be released in the Spring of 2020.
His producing credits also include films such as the suspense thriller The International, the supernatural thriller Fallen, and he’s currently executive producing the SyFy Network’s highly praised flagship series Twelve Monkeys, based on the Atlas Entertainment produced film, exploring the provocative story of a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock to save the present. The series is currently shooting its fourth and final season, set for broadcast in 2018.
A graduate from New York University, Suckle began his career in the entertainment industry on Broadway at the general management firm Gatchell & Neufeld, working on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love and the Tony Award Winners Lettice & Lovage and City of Angels. He later moved into the music industry and joined the public relations firm Shore Fire Media where he worked with Grammy-Award winning artists Wynton Marsalis and Bruce Springsteen before joining Atlas in 1992.
“Maia and Rhonda have such an incredible vision, and they’ve been dreaming for so long about creating a world-class recreational and pre-professional dance studio. I am thrilled to be a part of the formation of THE INDUSTRY Dance Academy along with them and Terry.”