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James McTeigue is a film director born in Australia. He has worked on a number of Australian films, but is most famous for his role in The Matrix films as well as Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones and his directorial debut in 2006, V for Vendetta. This article is about motion pictures. ...
Generally a director is a person or one of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a government agency, company, corporation, group or project. ...
The Matrix is a science-fiction/action film first released in the USA on March 31, 1999, written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski. ...
V for Vendetta is a 2006 film adaptation of the graphic novel V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. ...
Career McTeigue first became involved in the film industry in the late 1980s, acting as production runner or production assistant in a number of small Australian films. In 1991 his role became assistant director, being the third assistant director in another Australian film, titled The Girl Who Came Late. Assistant director is a movie term for an assistant to the director whose duties include tracking the progress of filming versus the production schedule, and preparing call sheets. ...
In 1994 he was the second assistant director in Country Life, a film adaptation based on Michael Blakemore's National Theatre production of Uncle Vanya, which had a much wider audience than his previous affairs. He also acted again as second assistant director in a small Australian television film. Country Life can refer to: Country Life (magazine) Country Life (album) - by Roxy Music This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
It was however, later in the year of 1994 the McTeigue broke into mainstream Hollywood, being the second assistant director for No Escape, and the big budget Street Fighter. In 1996, McTeigue again assumed the role of second assistant director, with an American television film and a small Australian film being completed that year. No Escape is a 1994 action / Science fiction film starring Ray Liotta as a military prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment on an island inhabited by savage and cannabalistic prisoners. ...
Street Fighter is a 1994 action movie based on the hugely popular fighting game Street Fighter II by Capcom. ...
In 1997 he was the second assistant director for WWII film, Paradise Road, as well as The Well, that year he also became first assistant director for a television series, Big Sky. The following year he was the second assistant director for the American sci-fi film, Dark City as well as Australian film, The Sugar Factory. Paradise Road is a 1997 drama film starring Glenn Close and Frances McDormand. ...
Big Sky is a phrase that is generally used in some references to the U.S. state of Montana. ...
Dark City is a 1998 movie written and directed by Alex Proyas. ...
It was the following year, 1999, that McTeigue really came to prominance. McTeigue was apparently going to act as second assistant director for The Matrix film, that is, until the first assistant director, a friend of McTeigue who told him about the project had to drop out, which saw The Wachowski Brothers make McTeigue first assistant. The film was released in 1999 and became a huge success. The Matrix is a science-fiction/action film first released in the USA on March 31, 1999, written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski. ...
Laurence Larry Wachowski (born June 21, 1965) and Andrew Andy Wachowski (born December 29, 1967) are Polish American film directors most famous for the Matrix series. ...
The following year he followed up his success with The Matrix, acting as first assitant director on the massively popular Australian film, Looking for Alibrandi. He was also involved in The Monkey's Mask that year, again as first assistant director. Looking for Alibrandi is an Australian novel by Melina Marchetta. ...
In 2002 McTeigue worked with George Lucas, as he became the first assistant director for Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. The following year he was also the first assistant director for both Matrix sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. George Walton Lucas, Jr. ...
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In 2006 McTeigue made his directorial debut, directing the Wachowski brothers' produced film, V for Vendetta. After spending so much time on The Matrix film series, the brothers gave the opportunity to McTeigue to direct, first showing him a copy of Vendetta graphic novel during post-production of Revolutions. McTeigue has been highly praised since the films release in March of 2006. Laurence Larry Wachowski (born June 21, 1965) and Andrew Andy Wachowski (born December 29, 1967) are Polish American film directors most famous for the Matrix series. ...
V for Vendetta is a 2006 film adaptation of the graphic novel V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. ...
V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book limited series, later collected as a graphic novel, written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom where a mysterious anarchist works to destroy the fascist government and profoundly affects the people he...
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