Christophe Gans

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Christophe Gans
Born	Christophe Gans March 11, 1960 (1960-03-11) (age 49) Antibes, France
Occupation	film director

Christophe Gans (born March 11, 1960 in Antibes, France) is a French film director, writer, and producer who specializes in horror and fantasy movies.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Future Projects 3 Filmography 4 Notes 5 External links

[edit] Biography

As a teenager, he spent much time creating kung-fu themed Super 8 movies with his friends. He later went on to attend the French film school Idhec, where he created his first short film Silver Slime. He later spent time as a film critic before co-directing his first film Necronomicon.

His $29 million-budgeted film Brotherhood of the Wolf was a worldwide success, grossing over $70 Million+ ^[1] in theaters worldwide; it also became the second-highest-grossing French-language film in the United States in the last two decades.^[2]

He went on to create his "labor of love", the video game adaptation Silent Hill.

[edit] Future Projects

Gans is currently attached to write and direct an adaptation of the Capcom video game Onimusha.^[3]. He is also in negotiations (with Samuel Hadida as producer) to adapt another Konami video game to film. ^[4] In addition to the two, he has been contracted to direct a sequel to Silent Hill. ^[5]

[edit] Filmography

• "The Drowned" segment of Necronomicon (1994)
• Crying Freeman (1995)
• Le Pacte des Loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf) (2001)
• Silent Hill (2006)
• Onimusha (2008) (in pre-production)

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Christophe Gans

• Christophe Gans at the Internet Movie Database
• BBC interview
• Comingsoon.net Interview
• Yahoo.com Interview