Nigel Phelps
Nigel Phelps (born March 16, 1962 in Lincolnshire , Great Britain ) is a British film architect .
Life
Phelps received his artistic training at London's Slade School of Fine Art . He gained his first practical experience with the design of advertising clips and music videos. Three of these videos (starring Lenny Kravitz , En Vogue and David Bowie ) received nominations for a music award from the music network MTV .
Nigel Phelps began with film under Anton Furst . His first work was in 1983 as a draftsman in the fantasy film Die Zeit der Wolfe . Two years later, Furst brought him in as his design assistant for Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket . In Furst's subsequent work High Spirits and Batman , Nigel Phelps already served as a simple film architect. In 1994 he was able to design the film structures for the action flick Judge Dredd on his own for the first time. Since Phelps is one of the main Designer Hollywood , exclusively for elaborate, action-packed A-movies like Alien - The rebirth , Pearl Harbor , Troy , Revenge - Transformers , Transformers 3 and World War Z is used.
Filmography (complete)
as film architect, from 1994 in sole responsibility
- 1985: Christmas Present
- 1986: Wish You Were Here (Wish You Were Here)
- 1987: Jake's Journey (TV movie)
- 1988: High Spirits
- 1989: Batman
- 1989: Hidden Agenda
- 1994: Judge Dredd
- 1997: Alien - The rebirth (Alien: Resurrection)
- 1998: Beyond Dreams (In Dreams)
- 1999: The Bone Collector (The Bone Collector)
- 2000: Pearl Harbor
- 2003: Troy (Troy)
- 2004: The Island (The Iceland)
- 2007: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor)
- 2009: Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen
- 2011: Transformers 3
- 2013: World War Z
- 2017: Life
- 2017: Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge
- 2019: Pokémon Detective Pikachu
literature
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 217.
Web links
- Nigel Phelps in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nigel Phelps on Fandango.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simon Ofenloch: Drawn with the camera - On the aesthetics of real comic book adaptations. GRIN, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-638-32871-6 , p. 95 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ Christmas Present (1985) Production Credits , The New York Times
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Phelps, Nigel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British film architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lincolnshire , UK |