Daniel Myrick

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Daniel Myrick (born September 3, 1963 in Sarasota , Florida ) is an American film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Myrick was born in Sarasota , Florida and studied at the University of Central Florida School of Film from 1990 to 1994 . During his studies he worked with his fellow student and later colleague and business partner Eduardo Sánchez on various smaller film projects.

Daniel Myrick's professional breakthrough came with his colleague Eduardo Sánchez in 1999 with the film Blair Witch Project . This pseudo-documentary horror film was inspired by the television program In Search of ... , in which staged recordings of inexplicable phenomena such as B. UFOs were presented as supposedly real. The Blair Witch Project received enormous public attention, especially through its clever public relations work on the Internet, as it was suggested that the actually fictitious and staged film consists of authentic film material that documented the last days of three film students before they disappeared without a trace in 1994. (For more information, see the main Blair Witch Project article .)

The Blair Witch Project was realized in 1997 on a budget of only 20,000-25,000 US dollars , but grossed over 248 million US dollars worldwide when it was released in 1999. Due to the considerable return on sales, The Blair Witch Project is considered one of the (economically) most successful films of all time and replaced the record holder Mad Max in the Guinness Book of Records . (Only the porn film Deep Throat from 1972 has an even better cost-profit ratio.) The sequel Blair Witch 2 , which is significantly more expensive at 15 million US dollars , could not come close to the box office results of the first film.

The Blair Witch Project was followed by other films that Myrick directed and for which he wrote the scripts. None of these productions could match the success and level of awareness.

Filmography (selection)

as a director

  • 1999: Blair Witch Project ( The Blair Witch Project , also screenplay, editor)
  • 2006: Solstice (also screenplay)
  • 2007: Believers
  • 2008: Operation Desert - The Disappeared Unit ( The Objective )

as a producer

as executive producer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Budget v. Blair Witch Project
personal data
SURNAME Myrick, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarasota , Florida , United States