About John Moore
John Moore was born in Dundalk, Ireland in 1970. He attended Dublin Institute of Technology, where he attained a degree in Media Arts and didn't think he would go into the film area of work. This soon changed with the creation of a series of short films.
He is married to his wife Fiona Connon, a makeup artist whom he met through an industry friend early in his career in Ireland.
He had a very close encounter with a tank that was blasting through a wall on one of his sets. A stuntman managed to push him safely out of the way showing his very explosive style.
His career
After graduating he wrote a series of short films that were published in Ireland. He was then able to found an Irish-based production company called Clingfilms throughtout the next few years.
He then started directing commercials, including the launch advertisement for Dreamcast, which 20th Century Fox found so impressive they gave him a $17 million (BTL) budget for Behind Enemy Lines in 2001.
He has gone on to make four films for 20th Century fox such as Flight of the Phoenix (2004), The Omen (2006), and Max Payne (2008) as well as Behind Enemy Lines.
Each film reached quite high up in the box office but recieved very negative reviews from crictics proving he is more popular with his audience then he is with crictics. One claiming that "a Peckinpahesque, neo-Eisenstein stylist whose grade-B material has kept him from receiving the acclaim he deserves"
His film Max Payne was in fact influenced by a video game so is action packed. Although I do not intend to use a lot of action within my project I may use the idea of having different levels just like a video game.
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