| Neil Marshall |
Neil Marshall promoting The Descent at Comic Con 2006 |
| Born |
(1970-05-25) 25 May 1970 (age 42)
Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| Occupation |
Film director and screenwriter |
| Spouse(s) |
Axelle Carolyn (2007 – present) |
Neil Marshall (born 25 May 1970) is an English film director, editor and screenwriter. Marshall began his career in editing and in 2002 directed his first feature film Dog Soldiers, which became a cult film. He followed up with the critically acclaimed horror film The Descent in 2005. Marshall also directed Doomsday in 2008, and wrote and directed Centurion in 2010.
Life and career [edit]
Marshall was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He was first inspired to become a film director when he saw Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) at the age of eleven. He began making home movies using Super 8 mm film,[1] and in 1989, he attended film school at Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University). In the next eight years, he worked as a freelance editor. In 1995, he was hired to co-write and edit for director Bharat Nalluri's first film, Killing Time. Marshall continued to write and develop his own projects, directing his first film in 2002, Dog Soldiers, a horror film that became a cult film in the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2005, he followed up with a second horror film, The Descent (2005).[2] With his direction of The Descent, Neil Marshall was identified as a member of the Splat Pack.[3]
Recognition [edit]
Marshall won the British Independent Film Award for "Best Director of a British Independent Film" for The Descent.[2] The horror film also won a Saturn Award for Best Horror Film.[4]
Filmography [edit]
Planned works [edit]
- Outpost is a planned film that Neil Marshall announced before starting The Descent. He described the premise to be zombies terrorizing an oil rig,[6] but he placed the film on hold for the time being.[7]
- The Eagle's Nest is a planned film that Marshall described as a World War II action-adventure that would be a hybrid of Die Hard (1988) and The Remains of the Day (1993).[8] He said the film was an action adventure tribute to films like Where Eagles Dare (1968) and The Eagle Has Landed (1976). The premise would be about a rescue attempt for a parachutist, Rudolf Hess, who lands in Scotland during World War II. The rescue is botched, and Hess is taken by a German unit to a country castle.[7] He also said "It's a little bit of Where Eagles Dare, Indiana Jones, James Bond and its kind of an espionage story set during WWII but its not really a war movie as such it's a full on action-adventure."[9]
- The Sword and the Fury is a planned film about a heist that takes place in medieval times. The story takes place 30 years after the death of King Arthur when his sword Excalibur is stolen. Arthur's queen Guinevere hires a band of thieves to steal it back.[7]
- Sacrilege is a planned film that takes place in the Old West. Marshall described the film, "It is set during the Gold Rush, a time remembered for incidents like the Donner Party. It is meant to be a pitch-black, gritty, period horror movie." The film will be themed on paranoia and isolation, and the director will draw inspiration from the 1982 film The Thing. "This is Unforgiven by way of H.P. Lovecraft, with that grim, gritty setting and a horror element nobody has seen before," Marshall said.[10]
- Burst 3D is a horror thriller film, first announced in October 2009, that Neil Marshall plans to direct.[11] The film, based on a screenplay by Gary Dauberman, would follow travelers stranded in a blizzard and being attacked by an entity that makes them spontaneously combust. Sam Raimi produced with his company Ghost House Pictures the film.[12]
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1970-05-25 |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
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