Producer John Lesher puts on the superhero suit to produce "Birdman".

The film industry is certainly full of talented people. Most of the time, we tend to admire and pay more attention to the people that have been in the business for several years. While others working on less projects but with the same amount of passion and ambition tend to prove once again that in order to belong to this industry you need to make your work talk for yourself. 

John Lesher at the Critics Choice Awards.

John Lesher is certainly becoming one of Hollywood’s most creative and ambitious producers. With only eight IMDB credits as part of his resume, he has raised the bar this past year by being part of two of the most acclaimed films of the year. The first one is a World War II film called “Fury”, which presents the story of a Sherman tank crew during the war. Several critics and magazines have acclaimed the film with different but very complementing comments, even comparing it with “Saving Private Ryan”, Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece.

Recently, Lesher teamed up with Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu in order to bring to life a movie called “Birdman”. The film talks about the life of an actor who once played an iconic superhero and battles against his ego and his past in order to recover his career, his family, and himself in the days before the opening of a Broadway play.

John Lesher, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, Michael Keaton, Alexander Dinelaris and Jon Hamm at the Gotham Awards. 

In a recent interview, Lesher talked about some of the challenges that represented to shoot the movie in a city like New York.

The movie essentially takes place in a Broadway theater—on the stage and in the dressing rooms and the hallways. We tried to keep our footprint small, but then use our location in Times Square as our base camp to sneak outside.

Lesher explains that without the support of New Regency, Searchlight and Worldview Entertainment the film would have become almost impossible to be financed.

Whenever you’re trying to do something that someone hasn’t done before, it’s challenging. We kept saying that we’re going to put this incredible ensemble together, but until you actually do that, it’s sometimes difficult for people to take that leap of faith.

It took exactly 29 days to shoot the film and the results keep knocking on the door as it has received many awards and recognition from the critics. With two Golden Globes, one BAFTA, one SAG , one AFI award and several other nominations "Birdman" prepares it’s final run for the most important award event of this year, the Oscars. Where it certainly promises to be in the winner list thanks to all the nominations that it has received.

John Lesher has several “special thanks” credits on several feature films under his belt, proving that no matter what type of project it is, Lesher will always bring something to the table even if he isn’t fully involved on it.