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American director and voice actorJames Ward Byrkit (also known as James Byrkit or Jim Byrkit) is an American filmmaker. He is perhaps best known for his many collaborations with director Gore Verbinski.
James Ward Byrkit is known for Coherence (2013), Rango (2011) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).
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Jun 20, 2014 · Coherence was written and directed by James Ward Byrkit, a first-time feature filmmaker whose past credits aren’t too shabby. He wrote the underrated and wonderfully odd Rango (2011), that...
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Funded through Kickstarter as a means of reclaiming the same independent filmmaking spirit that fueled Coherence, Shatter Belt is billed as a series of short film episodes, all based around themes of consciousness. Three of the first season’s self-contained installments have been shot, with Byrkit now in production on the fourth and final. “Some of...
In conceptualizing the series, Byrkit has drawn upon a decade’s worth of ideas — compelling, cosmically minded concepts— that he struggled to get made in Hollywood once the initial rush of post-Coherence pitch meetings had subsided. “When you go the traditional Hollywood route, people are not used to working as quickly or decisively as I am,” he re...
Byrkit has seen his fair share of success in Hollywood, most notably serving as a conceptual artist on Gore Verbinski’s first three Pirates of the Caribbean films and co-writing the script for Rango, Verbinski’s Oscar-winning acid-Western cartoon. But he sees Shatter Beltas an overdue return to the stripped-down, self-starting creative ethos that g...
Aug 8, 2014 · Coherence director and story co-writer James Ward Byrkit likes to refer to his low-budget, improvised thriller as a “funhouse.”
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Feb 16, 2022 · WILL ROOSE, Staff Writer—James Ward Byrkit’s Coherence is arguably one of the best science-fiction films to come out in the last decade. Independent cinema at Denison is special in that many of the cinema majors will delve deep into the small-scope “indies” that only circulate through positive word-of-mouth and local festivals.
Oct 23, 2014 · Gotham-nominated debut director James Ward Byrkit stripped his vision down to the barest of bones to achieve a mind-shifting, metaphysical freakout about a dinner party gone cosmically awry....
