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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 is also loosely based on the novel Star Wars: The Old Republic - Revan, by Drew Karpyshyn, 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 Kaya Scodelario, David Thewlis, Helena Bonham Carter, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ethan Hawke, Logan Lerman, Taissa Farmiga, Stanislav Ianevski, Ralph Ineson, Lucy Boyton, and Bill Nighy in Supporting roles. the film also includes Kristoffer Tabori and Sara Kestelman reprising their roles as HK-47 and Kreia from the Both games. and Scott McNeil as a small appearance as Darth Bane, which he would reprise for Bane: An Animated Star Wars Story. the film made it's Los Angeles premiere on May 4th, 2017, and was worldwide following week, the film was met with large praise from Audience, Fans and critics, most praising Watson's performance as Revan, the inclusion of a same romance between Revan and Bastila, and more notably Scott McNeil's Performance as Bane.
