Brian Taylor is an American filmmaker. He is best known for collaborating with

Mark Neveldine Mark Neveldine (born May 11, 1973) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for frequently collaborating with Brian Taylor as Neveldine/Taylor. Early life and education Neveldine was born in Watertown, New York, to Tom Neveldine and Carolyn ...

in the writing/directing team

Neveldine/Taylor Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are two American filmmakers who work collectively in collaboration as a filmmaking duo, and they are sometimes referred to as Neveldine & Taylor or Neveldine/Taylor. Their written and directed productions are kn ...

Career

Taylor attended the Los Angeles Film School in Hollywood and began his career as a

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, working on

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and low-budget shorts. In the early 2000s, Taylor united with

to form the directing team

. Known for their aggressive, high energy camerawork, the team signed with @radical.media in 2004 as commercial directors. They shot campaigns for Nike, Powerade, Budweiser and many others before moving to the big screen in 2006 with their first feature, ''Crank.'' According to Taylor, the high adrenaline ''Crank'' was written as "an attack on studio filmmaking." The film spawned a sequel, '' Crank: High Voltage'' (2009) that

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called “The ''Gremlins 2'' of action movies.” The team pioneered the RED ONE camera on the dystopian science fiction mashup ''Gamer'' (2009), then trekked across Europe with

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on '' Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'' (2011). In February 2012, Taylor signed a seven-figure deal with

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to write and direct a film adaptation of the ''

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'' video game series. The film has not yet been produced. In 2016, Taylor teamed up with

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to adapt the graphic novel '' Happy!'' for Original Films. The series premiered on SyFy in 2017. Brian and Grant went on to adapt Aldous Huxley's masterpiece ''Brave New World'' with Amblin/UCP as a USA series in 2018. In 2017, Taylor wrote and directed the horror

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film '' Mom and Dad'' starring

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and Anne Winters. The film premiered at

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2017 as part of the Midnight Madness lineup and was released in theaters on January 19, 2018.

Filmography

With

Solo works

References

External links

Brian Taylor at FEARnet
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