Jeremy Coon

Jeremy Coon (born 1979) is an American executive producer and editor of the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite, a cult hit made on a $400,000 budget that has earned more than $44 million since its release and the producer of the animated series of the same name.

He was friends at Brigham Young with fellow film student Jared Hess, where he was told of Hess' nascent screenplay for Dynamite and agreed to raise the money to produce the film.

After a 22-day shoot in Preston, Idaho, Coon edited the film during a nine-day cram session using Apple Final Cut Pro software for the first time.

"We spent about a year assembling our crew -- 95 percent were friends from the BYU post department," he told the Apple publication Pro.

: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made and A Disturbance in the Force, about the making of the Star Wars Holiday Special.