Luis Llosa

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Luis Llosa (* 1951 in Lima ) is a Peruvian film producer and director . He is one of the most influential film and television makers in his home country and gained international fame through Hollywood productions in the 1990s.

Career

Llosa became interested in film and television productions at an early age and worked as a film critic during his studies in Lima until he began making TV documentaries in the 1970s. After designing and filming commercially successful series and documentary soaps in the 1980s, Llosa took up a lively producer activity and became one of the most prominent figures from the early 1990s with numerous films, series and TV shows primarily aimed at entertainment of Peruvian television.

After thrillers like Hour of the Assasin (1987) and Crime Zone (1989, with David Carradine in the leading role) he was hired as a director for major Hollywood productions. The action thriller Sniper (1993) with Tom Berenger and Billy Zane in the leading roles was an international success, but Llosa was not involved in the sequel. The critics rated the film average with regard to its plot, but attested Llosa a knack for the staging of action sequences. Llosa's Fire on the Amazon with Sandra Bullock , which was filmed in 1991 and followed up in the cinemas after the success of Sniper , was panned by criticism and flopped. His next action film The Specialist (1994) was also badly reviewed, but at the box office it was a success - albeit a moderate one, primarily due to the star cast with Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone and erotic scenes that had already become known and advertised in advance.

The situation was similar with the animal horror film Anaconda , released in 1997 , for which Llosa received a predominantly poor job reference from the trade press and was nominated for the negative Golden Raspberry Award ( Roger Ebert , who was enthusiastic about the film , was a prominent exception ), but one could record further financial success. As in the previous film, the producers had shown a lucky hand at the casting and especially the scantily clad Jennifer Lopez left a lasting impression on the audience. Anaconda became a cult film of its genre that was continued several times, but he refused to accept the offers, sequels or similar projects brought to Llosa. He then concentrated again on his career as a producer until he filmed the novel by his cousin and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa , The Goat Festival , published five years earlier in 2005 . He was involved in adapting the script himself, and the film was produced in Europe. Llosa's first dramatic feature film received mixed reviews.

family

Llosa is a cousin of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa and the uncle of the film director Claudia Llosa .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Llosa, Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima , Peru