Age: 82
male
Martin Campbell (born October 24, 1943) is a New Zealand director. Campbell is credited with rejuvenating the James Bond franchise when he directed GoldenEye (1995), Pierce Brosnan's first outing as the famed British spy, and Daniel Craig's debut Bond feature, Casino Royale (2006). Campbell moved to London where he began his career as a cameraman. He went on to produce the controversial British feature Scum (1979), as well as Black Joy (1977), which was selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Campbell made his directorial debut on the British police action series The Professionals (1977) and continued with the popular BBC series Shoestring (1979) and Thames TV's Minder (1979) Considered one of the U.K.'s top directors by the mid-'80s, he directed the highly praised British telefilm, Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983). For his work on Edge of Darkness (1985), a five-hour BBC miniseries about nuclear contamination in England that depicted murder and high-ranking corruption, he won six BAFTA awards. Campbell's first Hollywood movie was Criminal Law (1998) and he went on to direct Defenseless (1991) and No Escape (1994). Some of his American credits include directing HBO's Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) and two episodes of NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), among others. He also directed the epic romance Beyond Borders (2003) starring Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen.
Hal Jordan is a pilot at Ferris Airlines with a huge ego. He is in a romantic relationship with the CEO’s daughter, Carol. One day a green alien ship crashes in front of his plane. Inside he finds an alien telling him that he has now joined the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic peace-keeping force. Hal is transported to the planet Oa, where he is trained to create constructs through his own willpower using his rechargeable ring. The crashed alien was Abin Sur, and he was attacked by an alien force feeding off of fear known as Parallax. Sur did a lot of damage to Parallax, and the beast crashed on Earth. Meanwhile, scientist Hector Hammond has found the creature, and is experimenting on it, when he cuts himself, letting some of the creature sleep into his skin. After his reluctant training, Hal fights Hammond who is possessed by Parallax, and he has finally mastered the ring. He kills Parallax and sends Hammond to SuperMax super prison. He kisses Carol goodbye, promising to come back soon, and joins the Green Lantern Corps.
