Christophe Gans

Christophe Gans is a realizer, producer and French scenario writer, born the March 11th 1960 with Antibes (France).

Biography

Fascinated by the cinema, Christophe Gans creates very young person a fanzine whereas he still lives in his birthplace of Antibes. After its studies with IDHEC (where it carries out in particular a short film named Silver Slime ) it founds with friends the magazine Starfix , defending then within its pages of the scenario writers such as David Cronenberg or John Woo, sometimes abused in the press cinema " traditionnelle" time. It animates in more one heading devoted to the cinema in the emission Rapido of Antoine de Caunes.

At the end of the Eighties, with the assistance of its producer Samuel Hadida, he works on several scenarios before signing the first part, entitled The Drowned , of the film Necromicon . He adapts then the Manga worship Crying Freeman to the cinema with in the role titrates Mark Dacascos (which he will find thereafter).

Four years later, the Pact of the wolves leaves in rooms and becomes one of largest successes of the history of the French cinema with nearly 5 million spectators in room (without counting the receipts world that the film generated).

He signs then the adaptation cinema of the video game worship Silent Hill . He was in particular helped with the writing of the scenario by Roger Avary, which he had met twelve years earlier for the exit of Necromicon . Roger Avary will say of him that " He was so much scholar whom I had the impression to have met the Quentin Tarantino français" .
Let us note that at the time of the realization of film, Christophe Gans received many death threats on behalf of fans of the play. Those did not want to see their favorite world betrayed by a feature-length film which would not have been in conformity with the spirit of Silent Hill .

Catalog of films

Producer

  • 2004 : Holy Angel (of Pascal Laugier)

Realizer

Scenario writer

References

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