Tommy Wirkola

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Tommy Wirkola on the far left, next to Jeremy Renner and Kevin Messick at the 2013 film premiere of Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters .

Tommy Wirkola (born December 6, 1979 in Alta , Norway ) is a Norwegian director , producer , screenwriter and actor .

Career

After graduating from school, Wirkola studied media studies at Finnmark University , then film studies at Lillehammer University and then completed a course in film and television at Bond University in Australia , where he obtained his bachelor’s degree. Wirkola made his cinema debut as a director, producer and screenwriter in 2007 with the Kill Bill 1 and Kill Bill 2 parody Kill Buljo , which ran successfully in his native Norway. International attention he made with his next film, the Nazi - zombie - comedy Dead Snow , for which he also led the director and the script together with the Norwegian writer, actor and film producer Stig Frode Henriksen wrote. In 2014 he also directed the sequel Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead .

His first Hollywood production is the film Hansel and Gretel: Witches Hunters , with Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton in the lead roles , which grossed 225 million US dollars worldwide on a production budget of around 60 million US dollars. The idea for the script is based on his graduation film for his film studies at Bond University in Australia.

The following year, Wirkola led the sequel Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead director. His next project was the science fiction thriller What Happened to Monday? , whose screenplay was written by Max Botkin .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nå hopper Wirkola av ( Norwegian ) DN.no. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  2. ↑ Dimension Extreme ( English ) dimensionextreme.com. March 4, 2009. Archived from the original on March 5, 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2014: "Kill Buljo - Stealthy, Deadly and Really, Really Stupid"
  3. ↑ Kevin Melrose: Wirkola Plans Dead Snow Sequel ( English ) Spinoff.comicbookresources.com. February 12, 2013. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  4. ↑ DØD SNØ - crossingEurope . In: CROSSING EUROPE . Crossingeurope.at. April 24, 2009. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  5. ↑ Hansel and Gretel: witch hunters ( English ) boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
  6. ↑ Director Tommy Wirkola Talk HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS and DEAD SNOW ( English ) Collider. November 20, 2013. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Wirkola, Tommy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian director, film producer, screenwriter and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 6th December 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Alta , Norway