Stephen Hopkins (Director)

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Stephen Hopkins (* 1958 in Jamaica ) is a British - Australian director and producer.

Career

He grew up in England and Australia. While working as a vinyl cover designer, he met the then video clip director Russell Mulcahy . Hopkins provided the storyboard and set design for various Mulcahy videos. When Russell Mulcahy was offered the film Highlander (1986) to direct, Hopkins took over the second unit directing of the project. Just a year later, Hopkins directed Dangerous Game for the first time.

He has since moved to Hollywood in 1989, followed by Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - The Trauma and, in 1990, the first major highlight of his career was Predator 2, starring Danny Glover . With Explosiv - Blown Away , an action thriller with Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones , and The Spirit and the Darkness with Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas , two more successful large-scale productions followed. In 1998 he realized with a large cast ( William Hurt , Gary Oldman and Heather Graham , with whom he also had a brief relationship)the theatrical version of the television series Lost Between Alien Worlds . Despite enormous technical efforts, the film was unsuccessful and a planned sequel was not realized.

When his next film Under Suspicion with Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman also flopped, Hopkins was drawn back to television after staging three episodes of the television series Tales from the Crypt in 1989 . He directed twelve of the 24 episodes of the first season of the television series 24 , which also brought leading actor Kiefer Sutherland back from oblivion. This was followed by the television series Traffic , based on Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic - Power of the Cartel , and the series Californication with David Duchovny .

Hopkins returned to the cinema in 2004 with the film adaptation of Peter Sellers ' Life: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, starring Geoffrey Rush . The Reaping followed in 2007 with Hilary Swank . Since then he has worked primarily for television as a director and producer. It was only with Zeit für Legenden (2016) that he made another movie.

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SURNAME Hopkins, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Australian director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Jamaica