Known for Visual Effects
John Haley is a visual effects supervisor. He studied mathematics at Vassar College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, and later shifted into the visual effects field. Early in his career he worked as a technical director and in look development and lighting for films such as Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) and Bewitched (2005). He then moved up through senior CG supervisory roles, including on The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), in which he oversaw effects sequences including Spider-Man’s swinging through New York and the climactic battle, and on Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), before progressing to more senior visual effects supervision roles. He has also been an additional visual effects supervisor on several high-profile film and streaming projects. On The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) he served as Additional VFX Supervisor, part of the team nominated for a 2021 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie (shared with Eric Leven, Mike May, Daniel Mellitz, Chris Waegner, Charles Tait, Sébastien Francoeur, Chris Morley, and Mark LeDoux). He has also been credited with supervisory or senior roles on productions such as Hellboy (2019) and The Boys (2019) in visual effects capacities. His work on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was part of a larger collaboration among multiple VFX studios, including Wētā Digital, to deliver complex aerial, canyon chase, and digital environment sequences.
Filmography
11 films, 9 shows


The King's Man
2021 · 2h 11m
country: United Kingdom
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.


Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
2021 · 1h 47m
country: United States
The story of best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small midwestern town for the first time to go on vacation in Vista Del Mar, Florida, where they soon find themselves tangled up in adventure, love, and a villain’s evil plot to kill everyone in town.


Hellboy
2019 · 2h 1m
country: Bulgaria
Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away.


Slender Man
2018 · 1h 33m
country: United States
In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.


The 5th Wave
2016 · 1h 52m
country: United States
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.