Russell Mulcahy

Russel Mulcahy is a Cinéaste Australia N.

Biography

Born on June 23rd, 1953 in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia)

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at the very least chaotic career of this famous Australian scenario writer for his dynamism and its great visual direction begins with orée from the years 1980, whereas he is success as a realizer of videos clip, a kind then in full explosion. It produces the clip of " thus; Video Killed the Radio operator Star" , first clip has to be diffused on the antenna of MTV. Since 1979, it puts in scene its first film for the cinema, Derek and Clive Get the Horn, a delirious British comedy carried by the duet Dudley Moore/Peter Brook but not very representative of her desires of creator. More attracted by the cinema of kind, and more particularly by terror, it returns in its country of origin and puts in building site Razorback, a brutal survival telling the face-to-face discussion of Australian rural with a gigantic wild boar.

But it is truly with following film, mythical the Highlander (1986), which it gains an international repute. In this ludic tale, Christophe Lambert and Sean Connery incarnate immortal warriors crossing the centuries, of the Middle Ages at our days, seeking to escape one from their congeneric follower from decapitation. Paradoxically, the success of film does not launch really the career of Mulcahy. After five years of menus projects (including four episodes of the televised series Tales of the Crypt), it transposes with Highlander - the return the postulate of its fantastic epopee in what is at the same time a continuation and a remake of this one. The film is inexplicably mutilated by its producers, who out of cut more than one half hour. The realizer disavows film then and requires that its name be replaced by the patronym " Alan Smeethie" with the credits, which will be refused to him. It will go up film at the time of the exit of film in DVD.

Mulcahy does not give up therefore, and signs during the years 1990 several thrillers whose success nevertheless is mitigated: Rebound (with Denzel Washington), Blue Ice (with Michael Caine) or the Business Karen McCoy (with Kim Basinger). Its incursions with the cinema, overflowed by participations in various televised series and projects of video games, are done rarer: its off Bruises the Mummy with the bad idea to leave at the same time as a similar and competitor project, the Mummy, and passes then unperceived. Its whodunnit post-Seven, Resurrection (1999), offers the presence of a Christophe little convinced Lambert and does not meet its public. Mulcahy moves away then from the big screen and returns only five years after, in 2003, with the biography of the Australian champion of swimming Tony Fingleton, entitled Swimming upstream.

It is devoted one moment on television, by signing telefilms like Mysterious Island, based on a novel of Jules Verne, or the Curse of the Pharaon, a new incursion into old Egypt. The realizer turns over then to his kind of predilection by signing Resident Evil: Extinction in 2007, last shutter of the horrific saga. It also continues to develop projects for television or the cinema, of which very awaited Zen in the Art off Slaying Vampires.

Former assembler installed in England, it begins in the years 1980. Initially realizer of clip-video, it passes later to the realization of feature film, among which: Derek and Cleaves Get the Horn (comedy).

He moves then towards the Cinéma of kind in which he can be well better expressed. Razorback , a survival of terror. In 1986, it carries out Highlander (science fiction) in which it directs Christophe Lambert and Sean Connery. The film is a success. Later, it carries out Highlander, the return . This continuation is massacred by the critic, and will not meet same success…

During years 1990, it carries out several films: Rebound , Blue Ice , the Business Karen McKoy and Resurrection .

Catalog of films

Cinema

Television

  • 2000 : Queer ace Folk television series (episodes 1-3, 18 and 20)
  • 2001: The Lost Battalion (telefilm of war)
  • 2002: Jeremiah , pilot of the television series.
  • 2006 : Curse of the Pharaon (The Curse off King Tut' S Tomb , mini series in 2 parts)

Musical videos clip and vidéos

External bond

  • Russel Mulcahy on Internet Movie Database

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