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Thomas George Hooper (born 5 October 1972) is a British-Australian filmmaker. Hooper began making short films as a teenager and had his first professional short, Painted Faces, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992. At Oxford University, Hooper directed plays and television commercials. After graduating, he directed episodes of Quayside, Byker Grove, EastEnders, and Cold Feet on British television. In the 2000s, Hooper directed the major BBC costume dramas Love in a Cold Climate (2001) and Daniel Deronda (2002), as well as the 2003 revival of ITV's Prime Suspect series, starring Helen Mirren. Hooper made his feature film debut with Red Dust (2004), a British drama starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor, before directing Helen Mirren again in the Company Pictures/HBO Films historical drama Elizabeth I (2005). He continued working for HBO on the television film Longford (2006) and in John Adams (2008), a seven-part serial on the life of the American president. Hooper returned to features with The Damned United (2009), a fact-based film about the English football manager Brian Clough (played by Michael Sheen). The following year saw the release of the historical drama The King's Speech (2010), starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, which was met with critical acclaim. Hooper's next film was Les Misérables (2012), which featured an all-star cast led by Hugh Jackman. His 2015 film, The Danish Girl, was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. Recently, Hooper has directed two episodes of His Dark Materials and a live-action adaptation of the musical Cats, for which he won two Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Director and Worst Screenplay. Hooper's work was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for Prime Suspect and John Adams, won one for Elizabeth I, and was nominated for the British Academy (BAFTA) TV Craft Award for Best Director for Longford. The King's Speech won multiple awards, including Best Director wins for Hooper from the Directors Guild of America and the Academy Awards and a Best Director nomination from BAFTA. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hooper (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Tom Hooper
Chief Simmons
for Chief Simmons in The Possession Trilogy
Suggested by sonictiger
From Blue Jean Studios, the creators of We Almost Won and Splatter comes a new film trilogy known as Possession! Split into three time periods, they follow a different story that connects to the others as well.....here they are! The Possession: Millennium Plot: In the year 2000, a small group of outcasts discovers something nefarious behind the curtain of their hometown in the midst of a murder spree, and find themselves pursued by something supernatural.... Runtime: 2hr 25min Possible MPAA Rating: R for Violence and Gore, Language, Disturbing Images, and Some Suggestive References The Possession: Teens Plot: 10 years after the Possession incident (AKA 2010), a group of friends bands together when a sibling of a group member goes missing, but the answers they find are the ones that they neither expected or wanted. Runtime: 2hr 30min Possible MPAA Rating: R for Violence, Gore, Language and Some Disturbing Images The Possession: Completion Plot: The year is 2020. When a mentally unstable young adult bonds with an evil power and brings people from the past into the present, a group of kids must help put them back where they belong..... Runtime: 2hr 45min Possible MPAA Rating: R for Violence, Gore, Language, Some Disturbing Images, and Brief Suggestive Material The films will release one week apart, and you will see the horror unfold in such a short time....and there will be plenty of horrors.....
