Rupert Wyatt

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Rupert Wyatt (born October 26, 1972 in Exeter ) is a British screenwriter and film director .

Life

Wyatt attended the Dragon School at Oxford and Winchester College.

He is the founder of the film production company Picture Farm , which has produced numerous short films, documentaries and a few special features, including the Sundance award-winning documentary Dark Days .

Wyatt wrote and directed the 2008 British prison breakout thriller The Escapist, starring Brian Cox , Damian Lewis , Dominic Cooper , Joseph Fiennes , Seu Jorge , Steven Mackintosh , and Liam Cunningham . The film premiered in January 2008 at the Sundance Film Festival . The film was nominated for eight international film awards and won two of them. In March 2010, he was hired as a director for the film Planet of the Apes: Prevolution ( Rise of the Planet of the Apes ), a prequel to Planet of the Apes . The film was released in the US on August 5, 2011. His third feature film, The Gambler, followed in 2014 .

Wyatt lives in Los Angeles with his wife, screenwriter Erica Beeney , and their son.

Filmography

As a director

As a screenwriter

As a producer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jasper Rees: British film: why breaking out gave me an opportunity to break in , Telegraph Media Group Limited. June 13, 2008. Retrieved February 15, 2010. 
  2. ↑ David Roark: Movie on DVD review: The Escapist . January 30, 2010. Archived from the original on February 26, 2012. Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
  3. ↑ Alex Billington: Exclusive: Poster Premiere for Rupert Wyatt's The Escapist . FirstShowing. Retrieved August 20, 2011.
  4. ^ Rupert Wyatt Named as Planet of the Apes Prequel Director . DreadCentral. Retrieved August 20, 2011.
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from August 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Wyatt, Rupert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Exeter