Neil Marshall
Neil Marshall (born May 25, 1970 in Newcastle upon Tyne ) is a British film director and screenwriter .
life and career
As a teenager, Marshall made his first films on Super 8 mm. After graduating from film school in Newcastle, he first worked as a film editor .
Marshall made his debut with Dog Soldiers in 2002. The werewolf film, which was produced with little money, was shown quite successfully in the cinemas in England , but mostly found its way into video exploitation in other countries. In 2005 Marshall made his international breakthrough with the horror film The Descent . Since 2005 he has been part of the Splat Pack alongside Alexandre Aja , Darren Lynn Bousman , Greg McLean , Eli Roth , Robert Rodriguez , James Wan , Leigh Whannell and Rob Zombie , a group led by Alan Jones from Total Film because of their brutality and extreme severity was titled. Marshall won the British Independent Film Award for "Best Director of a British Independent Film" for The Descent and also won the Saturn Award for best horror film .
After this success turned the Marshall dystopian science fiction - action thriller Doomsday (2008) and the historical action film Centurion (2010). In 2011 he directed the 9th episode of the second season of the HBO series Game of Thrones . In May 2012 he replaced David Slade as director of the vampire thriller The Last Voyage of the Demeter , in which Ben Kingsley and Noomi Rapace take the lead roles. He is associated with directing the US remake of the Norwegian found footage documentary horror film Trollhunter .
At the beginning of 2017 Marshall shot the Netflix series Lost in Space , a remake of the US series of the same name from the 1960s about the Robinson family, who got detoured on a mission in space . Molly Parker , Parker Posey , Toby Stephens , Adam Greydon Reid , Ian Belcher and Vanessa Eichholz star in the series .
His film The Reckoning will celebrate its world premiere on August 20, 2020 at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montréal and will be screened at the Fantasy Filmfest almost three weeks later .
Filmography (selection)
- 1999: Combat (short film)
- 2002: Dog Soldiers
- 2005: The Descent - abyss of horror (The Descent)
- 2008: Doomsday (Doomsday)
- 2010: Centurion
- 2012, 2014: Game of Thrones (2 episodes)
- 2014: Black Sails (2 episodes)
- 2015: Hannibal (episode 3x08)
- 2016: Westworld (Episode 1x03)
- 2016: Timeless (episodes 1x01–1x02)
- 2018: Lost in Space - Lost between strange worlds ( Lost in Space , episodes 1x01–1x02)
- 2019: Hellboy - Call of Darkness
Web links
- Neil Marshall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neil Marshall Biography (English)
- ^ Neil Marshall: Guilty Pleasures: Neil Marshall, Director of The Descent . In: Film Comment . 42, No. 4, p. 10.
- ↑ a b Neil Marshall . In: bifa.org.uk . British Independent Film Award . Archived from the original on May 21, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 24, 2008.
- ↑ Rebecca Winters Keegan: The Splat Pack . In: Time . October 22, 2006. Retrieved June 24, 2008.
- ^ Past Saturn Awards . In: Saturn Awards . Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. Archived from the original on October 3, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 24, 2008.
- ^ Neil Marshall Boards The Last Voyage of the Demeter , accessed May 12, 2012
- ↑ blairwitch.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marshall, Neil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newcastle upon Tyne , England |