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Rocky Morton (born 1955) is an English director. He is the co-creator of the TV series Max Headroom and co-director of the 1993 Hollywood Pictures film Super Mario Bros. Various music videos by Tom Tom Club, Talking Heads, Gravity Kills, Orgy, George Harrison and Miles Davis are credited to Morton.
- Rocky Morton, 1955 (age 67–68), United Kingdom
- Film director
- 1979–present
- Annabel Jankel
Rocky Morton. Director: Super Mario Bros.. Rocky Morton was born in 1955 in England, UK. He is a director and actor, known for Super Mario Bros. (1993), D.O.A. (1988) and The M Word (2004). He was previously married to Annabel Jankel.
- January 1, 1
- 3 min
- England, UK
- “This Is A Great Concept”
- “We Made The Whole Thing Up”
- Snakes and (Hot?) Coffee
- On-Set Strife
- “The Sorrow of This Film”
Roland Joffé (producer): I thought there was something inside that story that could be very interesting. I went and negotiated on my own with Nintendo. I think it took me a week staying in a ryokan in Japan and going every day with different kinds of tea, which I presented to the secretary of the then-owner of Nintendo. He said to me, “Lots of big ...
Fiona Shaw: The genius of the film was that the design was fantastic. It was shot in this big huge cement factory. Probably illegal now. It meant you could crash things and build a city. David L. Snyder (production designer):Because the steel concrete framework was there, we would do basically what they do in England: build scaffolding and hang the...
Roland Joffé: It was a dangerous shoot. There were an enormous number of stunts and it was a tough environment. Fiona Shaw: The real stunts were done by Hell’s Angels and the guys that could drive those futuristic cars. Fiona Shaw: The animal people said, “Would you mind taking the snake [that Lena holds in scenes] home?” I was asked to keep the sn...
Roland Joffé: This is a story of a hothouse of creativity, emotion, danger, imagination, all at white-hot heat, and it would be odd to expect that to not have its own extraordinary set of tensions. It was like going to war. Fiona Shaw: Bob used to get special whiskey sent from England — single malts — and we would drink those copiously in his carav...
Rocky Morton: There’s a scene missing, that the producers cut out. The scene was right at the very very end when the Mario brothers were back in Brooklyn. And there’s a knock-knock-knock on the door, and it’s two executives from Japan from Nintendo. They’ve come to buy this story — the life story of the Mario brothers — because they want to use it ...
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Apr 2, 2015 · Rocky Morton was one of the co-creators and directors of Max Headroom, a dystopian satire of media and corporate greed in the 1980s. Learn how he and his partner Annabel Jankel came up with the idea of a talking head character and how they made it a pop culture phenomenon.
- Bryan Bishop
Rocky Morton remains one of the most decorated and in-demand directors in global advertising, turning out award winning work for diverse clients and major brands. He continues to develop his personal Films, TV and Art projects.
Jun 7, 2016 · Director Rocky Morton had the worst time making Super Mario Bros. By Poppy-Jay Palmer 07-06-16 26,343. Back in 1993, video games were still seen by many as something of an evil: they were corrupting the minds of children, ruining their educations and turning them into brainless zombies.
Apr 4, 2023 · Its production was marred by drunken actors (Leguizamo later admitted to downing whiskey with Hoskins between takes), last-minute rewrites and explosive fights between the producers and the...
