Francis Lawrence is an American director and video maker of Austrian descent. Thanks to incredible talent from nature, boundless faith and the support of people close to him, a new cinema star was lit up in the world, giving moviegoers such masterpieces as “Konstantin: Lord of Darkness”, “I-Legend”, “The Hunger Games”.
How the formation of Man with a capital letter occurred, can be found in this article.
Young years and the beginning of a career of a future movie star
Francis Lawrence is a native of Austria. He was born on March 26, 1970 in the city of Vienna. Three years after the birth of a son, parents decide to move to sunny Los Angeles. Here the boy grew up under the rays of the Hollywood sun and began to take his first steps towards cinema.
Once, his parents gave him a video camera, and since then the guy has not parted with her for a minute. He filmed everything, including his friends' basketball game. This work was the first step towards a director's career. And the cassette with the record flew around all the friends of the youth who all said as one that the video was high-quality and quite professional. Soon, Lawrence was asked to film all kinds of parties, school sports and car clips with friends' cars.
Everything said that the guy has a great talent for cinema. After leaving school, Francis Lawrence enters the directing department of the film school of Loyola Merimont. Already in the second year, the entrant was invited to the position of assistant director of the film "Cut to the fullest" (1990) with Christian Slater in the title role. It is worth mentioning that at the same time Francis was filming videos for little-known performers.
First steps up the career ladder
Lawrence was passionate and absorbed in his work, which is part-time hobby. And in the wake of inspiration, he writes several scripts. In 1990, the young director completed his successful training and did not hesitate to further his career. All relatives supported the guy very much, so they allocated some funds for organizing his new project - a personal film studio. And his co-founder and assistant was a longtime acquaintance - Mika Rosen.
Together they began to shoot video clips, and soon his clients became such famous persons as Missy Eliot, Timbelent, Akon, Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, the mega-popular Aerosmith group and many, many others. This is where the talent of a man as a screenwriter came in handy, because he wrote many scripts for the clips himself. After working with the big stars of show business and a very high-quality result, Lawrence began to be respected and respected as a professional in her field.
It is worth noting that such services were used by such corporations as Bacardi Limited, Coca-Cola, McDonald's. The director himself recalls that he liked what he did, and especially every day on television to see his creations, but his dream was always to make a full-length movie. Soon it came true.
The brightest films of Francis Lawrence
In 2005, Francis Lawrence was taken for his first full-length film. To say that he coped with his task is to say nothing. The film "Constantine: Lord of Darkness" with Keanu Reeves in the title role was a resounding success, and box office more than doubled the cost. Lawrence recalls that he practically did not sleep before the premiere. Well, now you can safely say that it is in vain. The career in the big cinema was laid, and his next work became a real "bomb" for viewers of all countries. The production of the film “I am a Legend” (2007) took 150 million dollars, and the film collected nearly 600 million, and this says a lot.
The next equally popular hit in the world of cinema was the director’s work on the painting "Water for Elephants!" (2011). For the filming, he managed to attract very famous actors at that time - Reese Witherspoon and Robert Patinson. The picture met the expectations of absolutely everyone: both members of the film crew and moviegoers who, with bated breath, watched every frame of a sentimental story.
The next big project in the directorial career of Francis Lawrence was the work on the Hunger Games saga. Francis set to shooting the sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which was a huge success. The next two parts of the saga, which appeared on the screen in 2014 and 2015, were also successful at the box office.
Now the man is working on his own script, according to which he plans to make a film. It is known that this is the story of one prison in which a riot once occurred.
Are Jennifer Lawrence and Francis Lawrence Relatives?
In the photo above, beautiful and talented people - Jennifer Lawrence and Francis Lawrence at the premiere of one of the films of the saga "The Hunger Games".
It is interesting that after the release of the second part of The Hunger Games, many moviegoers began to notice one interesting fact - the director and the female lead have the same surnames. Then the Internet blew the news that the guys are relatives. And if you are also interested in whether the relatives are Jennifer Lawrence and Francis Lawrence, then we will answer with confidence that no. They are just namesakes.
