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Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born 31 March 1972) is a Spanish film director. Amenábar was born in Santiago, Chile to a Spanish mother and Chilean father, but the family moved to Spain just one year after his birth. He studied cinema at Madrid's Universidad Complutense but eventually dropped out. In addition to writing and directing his own films, Amenábar has maintained a notable career as a composer of film scores, including the Goya Awards-nominated score for José Luis Cuerda's La lengua de las mariposas. Amenábar was awarded the Grand Prix of the Jury at the International Venice Film Festival in 2004 for Mar adentro ("The Sea Inside"), and in February 2005 the same film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In February 2004, Amenábar came out to the Spanish gay magazine Shangay Express. Amenábar shot in 2008 an epic film called Ágora which he wrote with Mateo Gil. The film is set in Roman Egypt and is based on the life of philosopher and mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria.
Alejandro Amenábar
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Revan: A Star Wars Story is a 2017 American animated gothic epic space opera film written, directed and produced by Alejandro Amenábar, in his first animated feature film, with Drew Karpyshyn and George Lucas as executive producers. It is based on the 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic by Bioware, and takes place after the the Dark side ending. The film stars an ensemble voice cast including Emma Watson as the titular Darth Revan, with David Thewlis, Bill Nighy, Lucy Boynton, Helena Bonham Carter in supporting roles, along with Jennifer Hale, John Cygan (in his final voice acting role) and Kristofer Tabori reprising their roles Bastila Shan, Canderous Ordo and HK-47 from the first game and Nicky Katt and Sara Kestelman Reprising their roles as Atton Rand and Kreia from the second game. The film also features Canadian voice actor Scott McNeil as the voices of Lord Scourge, Naga Sadow in a flashback and a future vision of Darth Bane, the third he would reprise for the sequel, the Rule of Two in 2019, and Vic Mignogna as the spirit of Exar Kun.
