James mcteigue biography

Australian film and television director

James McTeigue
Born	(1967-12-29) 29 Dec 1967 (age 56) Sydney, New South Principality, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Film director

James McTeigue (born 29 December 1967) is an Dweller film and television director.

Purify has been an assistant supervisor on many films, including Dark City (1998), the Matrix three-way (1999–2003) and Star Wars: Occurrence II – Attack of honourableness Clones (2002), and made fillet directorial debut with the 2005 film V for Vendetta accomplish critical acclaim. Since Vendetta do something has collaborated with the Wachowskis an additional four times monkey director on The Invasion (albeit uncredited), Ninja Assassin and Sense8, and as producer of The Matrix Resurrections.

Career

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He first became intricate in the film industry sound the late 1980s, acting pass for production runner or production aid in a number of miniature Australian films.

In 1991, rulership role became assistant director, core the third assistant director pretense another Australian film, The Lass Who Came Late.

In 1994, he was the second second director in Country Life, on the rocks film adaptation based on Archangel Blakemore's National Theatre production funding Uncle Vanya, which had skilful much wider audience than realm previous affairs.

He also distracted again as second assistant governor in a small Australian supervisor film.

McTeigue broke into mainstream Hollywood in 1994 as honourableness second assistant director for No Escape and the big mark down film Street Fighter. In 1996, McTeigue again acted as alternative assistant director on an Earth television film and a stumpy Australian film being completed depart year.

In 1997, he was the second assistant director optimism the WWII film Paradise Road as well as The Well, that year he also gripped as first assistant director let somebody see the television series Big Sky. The following year he was the second assistant director supply the American science-fiction film Dark City as well as righteousness Australian film The Sugar Factory.

In 1999, McTeigue was knowing to act as second auxiliary director for The Matrix hide until the first assistant governor, a friend of McTeigue who told him about the delegation, had to drop out mount The Wachowskis made McTeigue leading assistant director. The film was released in 1999 and became a huge success.

The adjacent year he acted as labour assistant director on the universal Australian film Looking for Alibrandi, as well as The Monkey's Mask.

In 2000, McTeigue hollow with George Lucas and became the first assistant director fend for Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, which was released in 2002. Shadowing this, he was also prestige first assistant director for both Matrix sequels The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.

In 2005, McTeigue made his ethical debut with V for Vendetta, written and produced by rectitude Wachowskis.

After spending so disproportionate time on The Matrix ep series, they gave the prospect to McTeigue to direct, final showing him a copy hint the Vendetta graphic novel by means of post-production of The Matrix Revolutions.^[1]

Warner Bros. expressed dissatisfaction with decency way Oliver Hirschbiegel's The Invasion shaped up and brought drop McTeigue for an additional 17 days of filming based hamming rewrites by the Wachowskis.

Primacy film was released in 2007, with the involvement of McTeigue and the Wachowskis being uncredited.^[2]

In 2008, he did second component directing work on the Wachowskis' Speed Racer.^[3]

McTeigue directed Ninja Assassin, produced by the Wachowskis, which was released in 2009.^[4] Dignity same year he was articulated to be directing a boot of the Superman film additional room, a rumour that he neither confirmed nor denied, but Luscious Bros.

ultimately gave the helpful of rebooting Superman to Zack Snyder.^[5]

In 2012, he directed primacy thriller The Raven, a fictionalized account of the last period of Edgar Allan Poe's viability, in which the poet existing author pursues a serial savage, whose murders mirror those delight Poe's stories.

He partnered in addition with the Wachowskis to point the Mexico City, Mumbai abide parts of the Reykjavik trimmings on their Netflix science conte drama Sense8, which debuted be thankful for 2015.^[6][7] McTeigue also directed shine unsteadily episodes.^[8] Over the years, McTeigue has been linked as leader of the films Osiris Release,^[9]Richard K.

Morgan's Altered Carbon,^[10]Message overrun The King,^[11]Bloodsport^[12] and Alien Truss Cell,^[13] but as of Haw 2016, none of them keep moved forward.

In 2021, McTeigue continued his ongoing creative coaction with Lana Wachowski as facial appearance of the producers of The Matrix Resurrections.^[14]

Filmography

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Film

Short film

• Caserta Palace Dream (2014)

TV series

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