Though having first broken out with international audiences thanks to his back-to-back Mark Wahlberg action vehicles in Contraband and 2 Guns, Baltasar Kormákur has steadily become one of the premiere directors for the survival thriller genre in America. From the star-studded Everest, chronicling the 1996 blizzard disaster that left eight climbers dead, to Shailene Woodley's similarly true-story-inspired Adrift, the filmmaker has become a mainstay in the field.