television has long ceased to be an ‘elephant graveyard’ where they were going to stop creators or actors who had lived the best years of his career in film or a pool of young talent whose main objective was to reach the big screen. Things began to change a few years ago. The leap in quality that experienced television productions and especially the possibility of exploring new genres, themes and formats began to attract a growing number of managers who saw a chance to experience on television what the big studios do not left to do in the movies.
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Joining the long list of known actors that act as bait for beginners series and in return receive a new boost in their careers. It seems that everyone wants to be on television scene and directors would not be less. The first to do so with the necessary media noise were Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese at the prestigious HBO. The first illuminated with Tom Hanks ‘Blood Brothers’ and ‘The Pacific’, two miniseries that followed in the wake of ‘Saving Private Ryan’, and they are already working on that will close his trilogy about World War II. Spielberg has also served as executive producer on ‘Falling Skies’, ‘Terra Nova’, ‘Smash’ or ‘Under the Dome’ series based on the novel by Stephen King that was released two weeks ago on CBS.
Martin Scorsese directed the pilot episode of ‘Boardwalk Empire’ and has remained as executive producer in the history of mobsters in Prohibition era. A job that has brought back one of his favorite genres and to date has provided an Emmy, one of the Directors Guild of America and several nominations at the Emmys and the Golden Globes
Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, in ‘Behind the candelabra’ Photo: HBO
After Spielberg and Scorsese more directors have been coming to television. David Fincher is behind ‘House of Cards’, one of the most important releases this year and key on Netflix platform tarmac in series production, and Ridley Scott has put on your resume exercising TV producer in’ The Pillars of the Earth ‘,’ Numbers ‘and’ The Good Wife ‘and will continue with” Pompeii’ and ‘The Vatican’, a number which will direct the pilot. Steven Soderbergh has announced his retirement years of cinema but does not lower the rate on TV: premiered earlier this year in the Cannes Film Festival and HBO tvmovie ‘Behind The Candelabra’ and is already working on ‘The Knick’, a drama set the early years of the twentieth century in New York will issue Cinemax, HBO the second channel.
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New poyecto, new producers
The following will join the club in M. Night Shyamalan, Guillermo del Toro, Sam Raimi, Juan Antonio Bayona and Michael Bay’s first try to forget the failure of ‘After Earth’ rolling for Fox ‘Wayward Pines, “a police thriller starring Melissa Leo and Matt Dillon.
Guillermo del Toro, who in August released in Spain ‘Pacific Rim’, is the one with the tight agenda: still working on the adaptation of the Dark Trilogy, his literary debut with Chuck Hogan , is about to begin shooting ‘The Strain’, which will act as director, writer and producer, and also prepares ‘Monster’ version of the famous television sleeve 90 Japanese Naoki Urasawa, who wants to HBO. More remote seems the possibility that ABC can get on with ‘Hulk’, a series that had already signed for the position of producer and director of the first episode.
Juan Antonio Bayona after success last year with ‘The Impossible’, will continue his American adventure directing the first two chapters of ‘Penny Dreadful’ series created by John Logan (‘Hugo’, ‘Gladiator ‘) and produced by Sam Mendes. More advanced projects are Sam Raimi and Michael Bay. The first addressed the first chapter of ‘Rake’, a number of lawyers who can be seen after the summer in the U.S. and Michael Bay will make its television debut acting as executive producer on ‘Black Sails’ prequel’ The Island Treasury ‘to be released in 2014.
In Spain, Enrique Urbizu (‘No peace for the wicked’) has been responsible for directing the first two chapters of ‘Alastriste’ television adaptation of the famous book series by Arturo Pérez Reverte. The series, which will issue Mediaset, is now a first season of 13 episodes which are rolling these months in Budapest.
Other directors do the opposite. J. J. Abrams came to prominence on television being responsible for series like ‘Felicity’, ‘Alias’, ‘Lost’ and ‘Fringe’, hit the jump to the movies to get behind the wheel of ‘Mission Impossible’, ‘Star Trek’ or soon the three new installments of Star Wars and producer has continued to put on shows like ‘Person of Interest’ or the next ‘Almost Human’. Jon Favreau, director of the first two installments of ‘Iron Man’ has participated as an actor in several TV series (‘Friends’, ‘Chicago Hope’) and has directed episodes of ‘Revolution’, ‘The Office’ and the pilot of ‘About a Boy’, a series of next season. As an actor also became known Peter Berg participated in ‘Chicago Hope’ or ‘Alias’ is moved into production creating the series ‘Friday Night Lights’, based on a movie of the same title released in 2004, and took over and in the film ‘Battleship’. His next project is ‘Lone Survivor’, a film focused on the war in Afghanistan starring Eric Bana and Mark Walhberg. itemprop=”provider” Click to view Terra TV video Trailer of ‘Star Trek: in the dark’ class=”text”>
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