Bryan Singer
Bryan Jay Singer (born September 17, 1965 in New York City ) is an American director , producer and screenwriter . Singer is best known for his involvement in the X-Men film series , for which he directed four films and was involved in others as a producer. He is the founder of the film production company Bad Hat Harry Productions .
Life
Bryan Singer grew up in a Jewish household. He is the cousin of the actors Lori and Marc Singer ; his uncle Jacques Singer was a conductor. Even as a child he made experiments with a Super8 camera. He and his high school friends Christopher McQuarrie and Ethan Hawke knew early on that they wanted to get into the film business.
Singer graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York and the University of Southern California Cinema School in Los Angeles . There he met John Ottman , who with the exception of X-Men later wrote the music for Singer's films and worked as his film editor . He also met Kenneth Kokin , who produced Singer's first two films.
Upon graduation, he directed the $ 16,000 short film Lion's Den , which he directed with childhood friend Ethan Hawke . His first feature film was Public Access in 1993 , which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival . Two years later, Singer made his breakthrough with The Usual Suspects in 35 days of shooting. The film received consistently positive reviews and won two Academy Awards (Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor Kevin Spacey ).
Singer's third cinema project Der Musterschüler (1998) flopped in cinemas. So it was surprising that he got the contract for the X-Men project with a budget of 100 million US dollars. He directed and scripted X-Men 2000 and X-Men 2 2003. In interviews, Singer emphasized that his identity as a Jew and openly bisexual influenced his view of one of the main motifs of the X-Men films, dealing with minorities.
In 2004 he directed two episodes of the television series Dr. House , the following year he was involved as a screenwriter on the television film Bermuda Triangle - Gate to Another Time . The third part of the series X-Men: The Last Stand was directed by Brett Ratner and was released in 2006. Instead, Singer decided to make a childhood dream come true by directing the Superman film Superman Returns . The film celebrated its premiere at the end of June 2006. In the summer of 2007, he shot the film Operation Walküre - The Stauffenberg Assassination, about the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 , in Berlin . Singer's film project, The Mayor of Castro Street, about gay rights activist Harvey Milk , was abandoned when it became clear that Milk , a film adaptation of the same story by Gus Van Sant , would be in theaters earlier.
In 2014 he returned to the comic genre with the shooting of X-Men: The Future Is Past . A year later he made the sequel X-Men: Apocalypse , which came out in May 2016. On March 28, 2016, Singer announced that he was taking a break from the X-Men franchise . The reason is the psychologically demanding work of X-Men: Future is Past and X-Men: Apocalypse , which were produced in four years without interruption. In 2017, Singer shot the biography Bohemian Rhapsody about the band Queen and their frontman Freddie Mercury , but was replaced by Dexter Fletcher during the filming . The reasons are said to have been choleric behavior and unexplained absences from the film set.
Singer describes himself as bisexual , and he and his partner Michelle Clunie have a son who was born in 2015.
controversy
Since the shooting of Der Musterschüler (1998), accusations against Singer have been raised several times over the years that he should have abused male minors; however, all lawsuits were dismissed. In January 2019, Singer denied allegations made by four men of sexually abusing them as minors. Singer's project to remake Red Sonja has been postponed.
Filmography (selection)
Movie
Director and Producer
- 1988: Lion's Den (short film)
- 1993: Public Access
- 1995: The Usual Suspects (The Usual Suspects)
- 1998: The Model Student (Apt Pupil)
- 2000: X-Men (director only)
- 2003: X-Men 2
- 2006: Superman Returns
- 2007: Color Me Olsen (short film) (producer only)
- 2007: Trick 'r Treat - The Night of Terror (producer only)
- 2008: Operation Walküre - The Stauffenberg Assassination (Valkyrie)
- 2013: Jack and the Giants (Jack the Giant Slayer)
- 2014: X-Men: Future is Past (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
- 2016: X-Men: Apocalypse
- 2018: Bohemian Rhapsody
actor
- 1988: Lion's Den (short film)
- 2002: Star Trek: Nemesis
- 2003: X-Men 2
- 2014: X-Men: Future is Past (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
- 2016: X-Men: Apocalypse
Story writer
- 1993: Public Access (screenplay)
- 2000: X-Men
- 2003: X-Men 2
- 2006: Superman Returns
- 2011: X-Men: First decision
- 2016: X-Men: Apocalypse
watch TV
Director
- 2004: Dr. House (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2012: Mockingbird Lane (TV movie)
- 2015: Battle Creek (TV series, episode 1x01)
- 2017: The Gifted (TV series, 1 episode)
Executive Producer
- 2004: Dr. House (TV series, 176 episodes)
- 2005: Bermuda Triangle - Gate to Another Time (Miniseries, 3 episodes)
- 2007–2008: Dirty Sexy Money (TV series, 23 episodes)
- 2012: Mockingbird Lane (TV movie)
- 2015: Battle Creek (TV series, 13 episodes)
- 2017–2019: The Gifted (TV series, 29 episodes)
Others
In the movie Star Trek: Nemesis , Singer makes a brief guest appearance as the tactical officer of the Enterprise. Singer knows the actor from Captain Picard, Patrick Stewart , from the filming of the X-Men films. When Stewart heard that Singer was a big Star Trek fan, he got him on.
Web links
- Bryan Singer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Portrait on film-zeit.de
Individual evidence
- ^ "Singer, Bryan 1965-." Contemporary Theater, Film and Television. Encyclopedia.com. September 18, 2018 < http://www.encyclopedia.com >.
- ↑ Bryan Singer: X-Men 2 Interview at bbc.co.uk, accessed April 23, 2014
- ↑ "How Many At-Bats Do You Get?": Why Fox Hired (Then Fired) Bryan Singer on 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. Retrieved May 31, 2019 .
- ↑ http://www.etonline.com/movies/146448_x_men_director_bryan_singer_declares_new_interview_that_he_bisexual/
- ↑ The devil does not exist . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 20, 2019, accessed on February 13, 2020
- ↑ Jürgen Schmieder: That's what the allegations against Bryan Singer are about . In: sueddeutsche.de . January 24, 2019, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed May 31, 2019]).
- ↑ n-tv NEWS: Bryan Singer counters abuse allegations. Accessed May 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Dave McNary, Dave McNary: Bryan Singer's 'Red Sonja' Movie Delayed Amid Controversy. In: Variety. February 11, 2019, accessed May 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Bryan Singer accused of sexual assault , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, January 23, 2019, accessed on January 24, 2019
- ↑ “Bohemian Rhapsody” without GLAAD nomination , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on January 25, 2019
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Singer, Bryan |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Singer, Bryan Jay |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American director, film producer and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New York , United States |