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Danny Cannon (born 1968, in Luton, England) is a film and television screenwriter, director and producer.
He began making films at the age of 16 in 1984, and started a youth experimental theater group at 33 Arts Centre. Using the centres facilities he was a very prolific director of video dramas and he collaborated with a number of other directors in different roles including cameraman. It was at 33 that he met the future film composer David Arnold who played in a band that rehearsed there. Danny convinced David that he could compose soundtracks for his and others videos. By 1987 he was awarded the BBC Young Filmmaker of the Year Award for a 40-minute short called Sometimes. He enrolled at the National Film and Television School in 1988, from which he graduated in 1990.
He wrote and directed Strangers (1990) and
The Young Americans (1993). Based on his work on
the later gangster film, producers signed him up to
direct the big-budget, but ultimately poorly-received
film Judge Dredd (1995), starring Sylvester Stallone. Since then he has also directed Phoenix (1998), and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998). Beginning in 2000, he has directed and produced for the various CSI television series. In 2005 he directed Goal!.
Trivia
- In 1987 Cannon, then a teenager, entered a competition in the British comic 2000AD to design a poster for a possible future film of Judge Dredd. His work was published in the comic's "Prog 534" edition. In his poster, he predicted that the director of the film would be Ridley Scott, with Harrison Ford starring in the titular role. [1]
External links
fr:Danny Cannon
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