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A self-proclaimed fanboy, Paul W.S. Anderson specialises in sci-fi movies and video game adaptations. His respect for the material he adapts has been called into question by its intended fanbase of fanboys, geeks and gamers, who have spent years debating his worthiness online. However, this has proven irrelevant, as his movies have been quite successful regardless.
Paul W.S. Anderson first came to public attention as the writer-director of the incredibly violent movie Shopping , which starred Sean Pertwee, Jude Law and Sadie Frost as thieves who ram-raided storefronts. When released in his native England, it was banned in some cinemas, and only came to the United States as an edited, direct to video release.
After this, he directed the hugely successful 1995 video game adaptation Mortal KombatMortal Kombat is a 1992 fighting arcade game by Midway Games. It was popular because of its realistic, digitized graphics mixed with bloody and brutal action. This differentiated it from the hand-animated, more cartoon-like graphics of competing games lik. While prior Video Game movies, like Street Fighter and Mario Brothers , had been disasters, Mortal Kombat was a great hit with audiences, if not critics. Those who had played the arcade game felt it captured the goofy, over the top violence perfectly, while more casual moviegoers enjoyed the fantasy world meets martial arts asthetic. Anderon declined to direct the sequel, Mortal Kombat: Annihillation , which was not well recieved by critics or audiences, and is deemed to be far inferior. Anderson was asked to direct a third movie, Mortal Kombat: Domination , but declined again.
The massive success of Mortal Kombat gave Anderson free reign to choose his next project, SoldierThe 1998 thriller Soldier starred Kurt Russell. 1998 films., written by Blade RunnerBlade Runner is a dark science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott released in 1982. It presents a bleak dystopic vision of Los Angeles in the not too distant future. Harrison Ford stars as "Blade Runner" Rick Deckard. In the future world of the movie a screenwriter David Webb Peoples . Intended as a "side-quel" to Blade Runner, the movie was set in the same universe (but not the same planet), and contained numerous references to Blade Runner. Kurt RussellKurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American actor. He is the son of Bing Russell, also an actor. Russell started his film career at the age of 10 in an uncredited part in the movie It Happened at the World's Fair was attached to star, but was unavailable at the time, which delayed the production. In the mean time, Anderson made Event Horizon, which took the premise of the classic sci-fi novel and film SolarisSolaris (Russian title in Cyrillic lettering: literal English translation: "Solyaris is a 1972 Russian film and is also a 2002 United States film. Both films are based on the novel Solaris by Polish author Stanislaw Lem. Tarkovsky's 1972 version The 1972, but filled it with HellraiserThis page is about the Hellraiser films; for the comic strip character, see Zippy the Pinhead. Hellraiser is a horror film exploring the themes of sadomasochism and morals under duress. It is based on the critically acclaimed novella The Hellbound Heart b-style horror scenes. The film was poorly recieved by both critics and the box office, and Anderson blamed the failure on studio-enforced cuts that removed most of the good material.
Soldier was eventually completed and released in 1998, and was a disaster both critically and commercially. In what would turn out to be the beginning of a huge fanboy-backlash, the film was ripped apart mercilessly by Ain't It Cool NewsAin't It Cool News is a website run by Harry Knowles dedicated to rumours on and reviews of upcoming and currently playing films. External links http://www. com/ Movie websites. webmaster Harry Knowles .
After the poor performance of both Event Horizon and Soldier, Anderson was forced to think smaller. His planned remake of the cult classic Death Race 2000 was put on hold, and he set about writing and directed a TV movie, The Sight , in 2000. It was a minor success, and Anderson returned the cinema screens in 2002 when he wrote and directed an adaptation of the video game series Resident Evil. It was at this point that, to avoid confusion to American auteur Paul Thomas Anderson, he began to credit himself as "Paul W.S. Anderson". Ironically, this only lead to him being confused with another American director, Wes Anderson.
Working with a moderate budget in comparison to his other movies, Resident Evil was a success in cinemas and on DVD, prompting Anderson to write (but not direct) the sequel, . During the Resident Evil shoot, he began dating its star, model / actress Milla Jovovich. They are now engaged.
Anderson's next project was the much-anticipated Alien vs Predator, an idea that had been thrown around ever since an Alien's skull was seen in the trophy room of the spaceship in Predator 2. Due to the immense legal complications involved in bringing the two characters together, a movie version had been stuck in development hell for years despite the franchise crossing into every other form of media, from books to comics to video games. The fact Alien vs Predator was being made at all was enough to get many fans of the originals onboard from the second the project was greenlighted. Some, however, were unhappy with the choice of Anderson as the writer and director, and had the opposite reaction, writing it off as a failure before it had even entered production.
The criticism was, again, largely restricted to the online community, and AVP was a financial success, although its average rating of 5.3/10 at IMDB puts it far behind the other Alien movies in terms of popularity. Anderson has also been asked by 20th Century Fox to write the screenplay for a possible Alien 5, but it is unknown if his script will be used. He is currently producing an adaptation of the video game Driver, as well as two horror movies, The Dark and Necropolis . A 3rd Resident Evil movie, Resident Evil: Afterlife , has been approved, which Anderson will write, direct and produce. He has also expressed interest in adapting the videogame Grand Theft Auto and Alfred Bester's seminal sci-fi novel The Stars My Destination, but neither one has so far come to pass.
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