Stephen Norrington, London film director, did Blade and almost nothing else (feddit.uk)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Norrington

Who the hell is this guy, even?

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[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Filmography Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes
1994 Death Machine Yes Yes Associate
1998 Blade Yes No No Also made a cameo as Morbius in a deleted scene[1]
2001 The Last Minute Yes Yes Yes
2003 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Yes No No

Hardly "almost nothing". The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen apparently performed badly enough to negatively affect his career. He also supposedly went into independent filmmaking from 2011 but so far hasn't released a single movie, which is rather weird. I wonder if he's some kind of "difficult personality" (i.e. not the right kind of weird for Hollywood), that one-person-project that the article talks about certainly points in that direction. Or he just took some time to raise his children, enjoy his wealth etc.

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

It’s not particularly weird. It’s only a small percentage of independent films that actually get made. He was attached to several films that didnt’t pan out.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Sure it's a small percentage, but how many independent movies had the director of a big budget Hollywood movie involved? You'd think that guy would be able to release at least one independent movie in 15 years.

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Not really how it works. Any indie film tends to be a fragile coalition of financiers, and a big commercial director is expensive and hard to wrangle.