Rupert Sanders is a British director known for the films Snow White and the Hunter and Ghost in the Shell.
Biography and photos
Rupert Sanders was born in March 1971 in London. The boy was the oldest child in the family of Thalia and Michael Sanders.
Career in the advertising industry
Sanders' ability to find a balance between an epic spectacle and impeccable detailing made him one of the most sought-after directors of large-scale projects. Having signed a partnership agreement with MJZ in 2005, Sanders directed many television commercials, including one video for an ad campaign for the Halo 3 computer game that brought him two Golden Lions at the Canes Lions International Advertising Festival.
Filmography
Rupert Sanders made his film debut with the work “Snow White and the Hunter” in June 2012. It was a new look at an old fairy tale, starring Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron. The budget for the film was $ 170 million, including eight-figure marketing expenses. The film was successful, it paid off and collected more than $ 396 million at the box office.
Sanders also directed the film adaptation of Japanese sci-fi manga and the anime "Ghost in the Shell." The film was produced by Avi Arad and Stephen Paul, and Scarlett Johansson starred in the title role.
"Snow White and the Hunter"
It took Sanders 5 years to decide to shoot the film. Arriving in Los Angeles, he began to read all the scripts in a row, admiring the work of the writers. You can’t just enter the business, so Rupert Sanders met with the directors of the studios, with large producers, he studied with professionals.
Rupert was looking for an optional large-scale project, but that would have excited him very much. And he found.
According to Sanders, "Snow White" is the best tale. He says: "I do not like marbles and sleeping beauties, this kind of thing. I think in Snow White I like the fact that these images frightened me from childhood: the queen, the mirror, the extraction of the heart, the hunter and the enchanted forest … Therefore, my the main goal was to rethink these fabulous characters. " Behind every idea in this fairy tale lies a huge psychological component, which is why these stories live so long. People all over the world still love them. Therefore, the film "Snow White and the Hunter" was a great opportunity for Sanders to return to the source and turn it into something completely new and modern, while adhering to the fabulous version of the Grimm brothers.
Director Rupert Sanders describes the film as an emotional blockbuster. According to him, most blockbusters are a bit empty. He wanted to create something bright and beautiful, frightening and exciting. Sanders wanted to show the tale from different angles, without driving it into the framework of one genre, as it often happens now.
"Ghost in armor"
This film reveals what it means to be human. If you can "copy" your consciousness into another body, at what point do you stop being human? Does the body or mind make us who we are? In addition, in the Ghost in the Shell world, hackers can instill memories in your head and the recipient will not be able to tell which ones are real and which are fake. The world of “Ghost in the Shell” is trying to deal with real problems in a technologically advanced world.
Of course, you can’t make a high-budget Hollywood movie just by solving these philosophical questions. But if you mix these themes with a cool story and an amazing action, you probably want to see it.
In the film, Scarlett Johansson plays the role of Special Forces Major Mira Killian, the only one of its kind hybrid man-cyborg, who leads the elite counter-terrorism group "Ninth Division." Aimed at stopping the most dangerous criminals, the Ninth Division is confronted with an enemy whose only goal is to destroy all the achievements of cyber technology.
