Woody Allen is the latest name to join the increasingly long list of prestigious filmmakers who have been tempted and convinced by the possibilities offered by television.
“The project untitled Woody Allen” is the name that will be the first series of the New York director for television, consisting of any number of chapters, of 30 minutes each.
A more than the big to the small screen transfer, something that has become common in recent years although only a decade ago was unthinkable, but the evolution of the series and freedom to create new channels like HBO, Showtime, Netflix, have finally convince almost everyone.
Martin Scorsese , David Fincher , Steven Soderbergh , James Cameron , Michael Bay , Ridley Scott , Steven Spielberg , Alejandro González Iñárritu , Alfonso Cuarón , Guillermo del Toro , Gus Van Sant , Jane Campion , Neil Jordan or Michael Mann are some of the illustrious names in cinema who have contributed their work and talents to television series.
But although there were previous cases, the first star of the film director who moved into film with excellent results, was David Lynch .
Twin Peaks (1990-1991) marked a before and after in television fiction, with a dense style, precious, intellectual and far superior to anything that is then programmed. Just remember that the great success of 1990 was live feeling and still coleaban the latest episodes of Dallas .
The arrival of oppressive environments, quirky characters and impossible puzzles created by Lynch and Mark Frost meant a revolution, which will have a second part now that the American director has announced that the series will return in 2016 with new chapters.
The big question is whether this new installment will resolve the doubts that left the cult par excellence, like what happened to Dale Cooper, the agent who gave life Kyle MacLachlan , actor already has confirmed their participation, so something will be clarified.
And if the work of Lynch was a more or less isolated, over the years the situation has radically changed until today, a long list Directors who do not see any problem to alternate cinema and television.
This is the case of British Ridley Scott, who started his career in the sixties on television and has become a recurring basis to This means as a producer of shows like The Company , Numb3rs or The Good Wife . His last television project is The Hot Zone , a series about the Ebola virus that could also produce and direct.
David Fincher, a director of fashion, responsible for Seven Deadly Sins or Lost , is more than happy to have directed the first two chapter of one of the best series of the moment, House of Cards , with film actors as: Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright . And it is in negotiations for a ten-part series for HBO.
This scheme of mixing direction and production is the same that you used one of the biggest names in film, Martin Scorsese, with Boardwalk Empire and could keep his upcoming projects with the chain. Among them, a series about the world of rock in the seventies, it would be assisted in the production of Mick Jagger , and another on the life of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, which would have a Benicio del Toro as the protagonist.
Another Del Toro, Guillermo, has also been released to television, with The Strain , a series of horror and science fiction the clear stamp of Mexican producer, which is already filming the second season.
It is the only Mexican director with TV projects. Alejandro González Iñárritu prepared The One Percent for the producer Media Rights Capital (MRC), the same House of Cards , and Alfonso Cuarón directed the series Marked Time , plus the pilot episode of Believe , which also serves as executive producer.
Meanwhile, Steven Soderbergh has abandoned film projects it is not known whether temporary or permanently since the director plays with ambiguity and continues in film as producer-and chains films or television series, such as Behind the Candelabra which however he competed in Cannes-, The Knick or The Girlfriend Experience .
And Steven Spielberg, already in the eighties directed several episodes of television series, has focused much of its work on the production small screen with high quality titles like Band of Brothers , The Pacific or United States of Tara in addition to Falling Skies , The Whispers or Extant
James Cameron with Dark Angel or Terminator:. The Sarah Connor Chronicles ; Michael Bay with The Last Ship or Black Sails ; Gus Van Sant with Boss or Michael Mann with Luck and Witness are other names behind the production of television fiction. Although there are some who not only produce, but also manage and take care of the scripts, as Neil Jordan with The Borgias or Jane Campion with Top of the Lake .
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