Rhonda Taylor Rhonda Taylor is an assistant director who is working alongside Ashley Bell and Phil Nee Nee as Second Assistant Director on the sequel , directed by Justin Lin with First Assistant Director Nick Satriano . Career . Directing . Taylor started to work as DGA trainee in 2001 and her projects during her training include the television movie " Walking Shadow " ( 2001 ) , the horror thriller " Thir13en Ghosts " ( 2001 , starring F . Murray Abraham , production design by Sean Hargreaves , and assistant direction by Ashley Bell ) , the romance " Life or Something Like It " ( 2002 , with Gregory Itzin and Jesse James Rutherford ) , the television drama " L . A . Law : The Movie " ( 2002 , with Corbin Bernsen , Larry Drake , and Bruce Davison ) , and the television drama " Door to Door " ( 2002 , with Joel Brooks ) . Taylor worked as third assistant director in the second unit or in the additional photography unit on the comic adaptations " X - Men : The Last Stand " ( 2006 , starring Patrick Stewart , Famke Janssen , Kelsey Grammer , Julian Christopher , and John Pyper - Ferguson , produced by Stan Lee and Ralph Winter , and with third assistant director Ashley Bell ) , " 4 : Rise of the Silver Surfer " ( 2007 , with Zach Grenier , produced by Stan Lee and Ralph Winter , and unit production management by Stewart Bethune ) , and " X - Men Origins : Wolverine " ( 2009 , with Patrick Stewart , produced by Stan Lee , Ralph Winter , and Bryan Singer , and first assistant director Chris Soldo ) , and on the comedy " License to Wed " ( 2007 , with Rachael Harris and Arne Starr and executive produced by Dana Goldberg ) . Her credits as third assistant director include the comic adaptation " Catwoman " ( 2004 , assistant direction by Steve Danton , Steve M . Davison , and Phil Nee Nee ) , the family comedy " Deck the Halls " ( 2006 ) , the fantasy comedy " Night at the Museum " ( 2006 ) and its sequel " Night at the Museum : Battle of the Smithsonian " ( 2009 ) , the horror drama " The Uninvited " ( 2009 ) , the comic adaptation " Watchmen " ( 2009 ) , the action thriller " Rampage " ( 2009 , with Matt Frewer ) , the fantasy film " Percy Jackson & the Olympians : The Lightning Thief " ( 2010 ) , the horror thriller " The Final Storm " ( 2010 ) , the fantasy horror film " Red Riding Hood " ( 2011 , with Billy Burke , Virginia Madsen , Lauro Chartrand , and Monika Spruch ) , the fantasy film " Sucker Punch " ( 2011 ) , the action sequel " Mission : Impossible - Ghost Protocol " ( 2011 , with Simon Pegg and Sabrina Morris , produced by J . J . Abrams , Bryan Burk , Jeffrey Chernov , David Ellison , Dana Goldberg , Tommy Harper , Ben Rosenblatt , and Paul Schwake , music by Michael Giacchino , costume design by Michael Kaplan , and assistant direction by Tommy Gormley ) , and the reboot " Man of Steel " ( 2013 ) . More recently , Taylor worked as second assistant director on the television series " UnReal " ( 2014 , co - starring Bonita Friedericy ) and " Rush " ( 2014 , with recurring stars Rachel Nichols and Brian Markinson ) , as second unit third assistant director on the fantasy adventure " Seventh Son " ( 2014 ) , and as third assistant director on the remake " Godzilla " ( 2014 ) , the science fiction film " Tomorrowland " ( 2015 , co - written and produced by Damon Lindelof ) , and the horror thriller " Hidden " ( 2015 ) . Currently , Taylor is working as third assistant director on the television series " Agent X " ( 2015 , production design by Denny Dugally ) . Assisting . Early in her career , Taylor worked as production assistant on the comedy " Scary Movie " ( 2000 ) and the action comedy " I Spy " ( 2002 , starring Famke Janssen and Malcolm McDowell ) and as set production assistant on the crime comedy " Chain of Fools " ( 2000 , with assistant coordinator Eva Morgan ) . She was a staff assistant on the crime drama " The Pledge " ( 2001 ) and assisted director Kirk R . Thatcher on the production of the family movie " It ' s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie " ( 2002 ) . Taylor also worked as assistant to Thatcher on the family television movie " The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz " ( 2005 , music by Michael Giacchino ) , as assistant for actor on the comedy sequel " Scooby - Doo 2 : Monsters Unleashed " ( 2004 ) , as assistant to the producers on the pilot episode of the crime series " Killer Instinct " ( 2005 , co - starring Jeffrey Nordling ) , and as assistant to writer and director Susannah Grant on the drama " Catch and Release " ( 2006 , with Tina Lifford and Nancy Hower ) . In 2009 , she received special thanks in the end credits of the short film " Under the Hood " , a project following the comic adaptation " Watchmen " and starring Matt Frewer , Stephen McHattie , Jeffrey Dean Morgan , and Rob LaBelle , casting by Andrea Brown , and first assistant direction by Phil Nee Nee .