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Pierre Morel (born 12 May 1964) is a French film director and cinematographer. His work includes District 13, From Paris with Love, and Taken. Career.
Pierre Morel. Director: District B13. Pierre Morel was born on 12 May 1964 in France. He is a cinematographer and director, known for District B13 (2004), Taken (2008) and The Gunman (2015).
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Oct 27, 2023 · Freelance: Directed by Pierre Morel. With John Cena, Alison Brie, Juan Pablo Raba, Christian Slater. An ex-special forces operative takes a job to provide security for a journalist as she interviews a dictator, but when a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, they are forced to escape into the jungle.
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- Action, Comedy
- Pierre Morel
- 2023-10-27
- Shooting A Foreign-Language War Film
- Set Locations and Inspiration
- Taken and Future Projects
MW: What drew you to the project, going back to square one? Pierre Morel:It’s twofold. One is, we've seen many movies, American movies made about the Middle East, meaning Iraq and Afghanistan, of course, that involve American forces most of the time because that's where we were. But yet, none have been done about Yemen, I think, and also very few f...
MW: Those scenes throughout the film where they're inside the armored vehicle trapped are confined and intimate. Was it challenging shooting those claustrophobic scenes? Pierre Morel: It is challenging. We shot in different environments. And we actually spent most of the shoot, as you can imagine, on that canyon. It was extremely hot. I mean, it's ...
MW: I loved your film Taken. Would you like to work with Liam Neesonagain? Pierre Morel: I would love to. We didn't get the chance to, but yeah, sometime soon. I need to find something different. I never did the sequels of my own movies. It feels like walking the same pathways. So I don't think I will do another Taken. I didn't do the other two Tak...
- Film Critic And Entertainment Reporter
Oct 25, 2023 · Pierre Morel: Well, I think it was just a way to tell the backstory of our main characters without going to a classic flashback version of it. Rather than see him [get] into a situation, seeing ...
Pierre Morel began his career as a camera operator, steadicam operator, and cinematographer, shooting movies for singular filmmakers like as Luc Besson, Jonathan Demme, and Nancy Meyers. "I learned a different style from everybody I worked with," says the French filmmaker. "They all have very different styles and very different ways of working."
Mar 21, 2015 · Now playing in theaters is director Pierre Morel’s new action thriller, The Gunman.In the film, Sean Penn plays an ex-Special Forces government contractor suffering from PTSD who discovers the ...
