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Willard Miller Huyck, Jr. (born September 8, 1945) is an American retired screenwriter, director and producer, best known for his association with George Lucas.
- Screenwriter, film director
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- 1969–2013
Willard Huyck was born on 8 September 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Howard the Duck (1986), American Graffiti (1973) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). He was previously married to Gloria Katz.
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- Writer, Director, Producer
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Willard Huyck
Feb 20, 2024 · And yet, if Willard Huyck did invent the story of Anakin Skywalker, then suddenly he becomes the most pivotal writer in the entire history of Lucasfilm.
- Ryan Britt
- Is Messiah of Evil Sloppy, Surreal, Or Kinda Both?
- What Messiah of Evil Lacks in Sense It More Than Makes Up For in Atmospherics.
- How Was Messiah of Evil Made?
- Why Messiah of Evil Matters Today
Describing the plot of Messiah of Evilis a fool's errand, but we'll try to shuffle it into something approaching coherence. Arletty (Marianna Hill) heads to the seaside California town of Point Dune where her father Joseph (Royal Dano), a painter, has been living. Her correspondence with Joseph had become increasingly erratic, and recently dropped ...
As odd as all of that sounds, that’s just plot and backstory. There is so much more strangeness fluttering about the film's margins than I could ever begin to summarize. Like the opening scene where some random man who's never mentioned again (and who's played by legendary writer/director Walter Hill) has his throat suddenly slashed open by a teen ...
They say that once a film is finished and released, it belongs to the audience; it's out of the filmmaker's hands by then. It becomes what we see in it and how we interpret it. But Messiah of Evilwas out of its filmmakers' hands before it could get that far. In 1973, Huyck and Katz were approached by a producer friend who said he could finance a mo...
Messiah of Evil began its journey towards critical reassessment when it was released on DVD in 2009. Since then, critics and genre fans alike have grown to appreciate it as an accidental cult masterpiece, alongside similarly haunted films like Bob Clark's Deathdream and John Hancock's Let's Scare Jessica to Death. These films have in common a deep ...
Willard Huyck was born on September 8, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Howard the Duck (1986), American Graffiti (1973) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). He was previously married to Gloria Katz.
- September 8, 1945
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Willard Huyck (born September 8, 1945) is an American screenwriter, director and producer, best known for his association with George Lucas. They met as students at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and along with others, they became members of a renowned group of amateur filmmakers called The Dirty Dozen.
Oct 27, 2023 · Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz’s eerily brooding Messiah of Evil remains an undervalued gem of American gothic filmmaking.
