Content deleted Content added
External links last |
Adding Bones of the Earth |
||
Line 2:
'''Richard Stanley''' (born [[22 November]] [[1966]]) is a [[film director]] and [[screenwriter]] born in [[South Africa]]. He has directed two feature [[films]]: ''[[Hardware (1990 film)|Hardware]]'' in 1990 and ''[[Dust Devil (1993 film)|Dust Devil]]'' in 1993. He has also worked on [[music videos]] for bands like [[Fields of the Nephilim]], as well as directing a 50-minute length video for [[Marillion]]'s concept album, [[Brave (album)|Brave]], which has since been [http://www.marillion.com/music/dvd/bravefilm.htm released on DVD]. He contributed to the [[screenplay]] for the [[1996]] film ''[[The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996 film)|The Island of Dr. Moreau]]'' but was fired as director and replaced by [[John Frankenheimer]]; the film was nominated for the [[1996 Golden Raspberry Awards]] in several categories, including "worst picture" and "worst screenplay".[http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=346&PN=1]
He has since completed two documentary films, ''[[The Secret Glory]]'' in 2001, examining [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] officer [[Otto Rahn]]'s search for the [[Holy Grail]] and ''[[The White Darkness]] in 2002 '' which examines [[voodoo]] practices in [[Haiti]]. Following several festival screenings worldwide, both documentaries appeared in the Dust Devil DVD box-set, released by Subversive Cinema in September 2006. <ref>http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=2390</ref> In April 2006, it was announced he is to direct a new music video for [[Fields of the Nephilim]]'s latest studio album, [[Mourning Sun]]. His most recent effort, the [[sci-fi]] short film ''[[The Sea of Perdition]]'' premiered in October 2006 at the [[Festival de Cine de Sitges]], and has since been made available through the production company website.<ref>http://www.errantfilms.com/httpdocs/projects/perd-film.html</ref>
Stanley has a feature film in development with the working title ''Vacation'' which he intends to film in the Canary Islands in 2007. The plot involves an American couple holidaying in the Middle East when nuclear war breaks out. He is also pencilled in to direct a [[2008 in film|2008]] film he wrote, called ''[[Bones of the Earth (film)|Bones of the Earth]]'', about a Gulf War veteran on a Scottish deer hunt gone wrong. <ref>www.imdb.com/title/tt0936463/</ref>
Richard Stanley currently works and lives in [[London]], [[England]].
| |||