David Slade | |
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![]() Slade at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con | |
Born | David Aldrin Slade 26 September 1969 United Kingdom |
Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
Years active | 1994–present |
David Aldrin Slade (born 26 September 1969) is a British film and television director and actor. His works include the films Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Slade is also a director for television, directing episodes for Breaking Bad, Awake, Hannibal, Crossbones, Powers, American Gods and Black Mirror. Before he was a film director, Slade was a director of commercials and music videos.
Life and career
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He started his career making amateur music videos for local bands in the south of England. He had his films processed by an elderly woman who developed super 8 films for cheap in her bathtub. His first professional job was directing a commercial for the video game Silent Hill, for the English market.[1] His first feature film, Hard Candy, was released in 2005 by Lions Gate Entertainment, who purchased the independent movie at the Sundance Film Festival.[2] He went on to direct the vampire film 30 Days of Night in 2007.[3] Slade directed The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,[4] the third film in the Twilight film series.[5]
In a Twitter post, Slade listed his favorite films as Performance, Wings of Desire, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Possession.[6] Slade also attributes Performance as his main inspiration for becoming a film director.[7]
Filmography
Feature films
- Hard Candy (2005)
- 30 Days of Night (2007)
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
- Nightmare Cinema (2018) (segment: This Way to Egress)
- Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
- Dark Harvest (2023)
Music videos
- Scheer's "Wish You Were Dead"
- Beaumont Hannant's "Utuba"
- DJ Hooligan's "Rave Nation"
- Speedy J's "Symmetry" (animated video piece titled "Corpus Porpoise Posthumous Non Polhemus")
- EMF's "Bleeding You Dry"
- Aphex Twin's "Donkey Rhubarb"
- Collapsed Lung's "Eat My Goal"
- LFO's "Tied Up"
- C. J. Bolland's "Sugar Is Sweeter"
- Babybird's "If You'll Be Mine"
- DJ Rap's "Good to Be Alive" (original UK version)
- 3 Colours Red's "Beautiful Day"
- Apollo 440's "Stop the Rock"
- Stone Temple Pilots' "Sour Girl"
- OPM's "Heaven Is a Halfpipe"
- Maxim's "Carmen Queasy"
- P.O.D.'s "School of Hard Knocks"
- Stereophonics' "Mr. Writer"
- Muse's "New Born"
- Muse's "Bliss"
- Muse's "Hyper Music"
- Muse's "Feeling Good"
- Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girl"
- David Gray's "This Year's Love"
- System of a Down's "Aerials"
- The Music's "Take the Long Road and Walk It"
- Rob Dougan's "Clubbed to Death"
- Starsailor's "Poor Misguided Fool"
- AFI's "Girl's Not Grey"
- Turin Brakes' "Pain Killer"
- The Killers' "Goodnight, Travel Well" for UNICEF in conjunction with MTV EXIT
Short films
- I Smell Quality (1994)
- Do Geese See God? (2004)
- MEATDOG: What's Fer Dinner (2008)[8]
Television series
- Breaking Bad
- Episode 4.03 – "Open House"
- Awake
- Episode 1.01 – "Pilot"
- Hannibal
- Episode 1.01 – "Apéritif"
- Episode 1.03 – "Potage"
- Episode 1.13 – "Savoureux"
- Episode 2.11 – "Kō No Mono"
- Episode 2.13 – "Mizumono"
- Crossbones
- Episode 1.01 – "The Devil's Dominion"
- Powers
- Episode 1.01 – "Pilot"
- Episode 1.02 – "Like a Power"
- American Gods
- Episode 1.01 – "The Bone Orchard"
- Episode 1.02 – "The Secret of Spoons"
- Episode 1.03 – "Head Full of Snow"
- Black Mirror
- Episode 4.05 – "Metalhead"
- Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
- Barkskins
- Episode 1.01 "New France"
- Episode 1.02 "The Turtle King"
References
- ^ "David Slade - My First Shoot". Myfirstshoot.com. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ^ "Press Conference: Interviews with the Cast & Crew of 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'". BloodyDisgusting. 14 June 2010.
- ^ "Twilight Saga: Eclipse Gets a New Editor; Muse Dropped from Soundtrack". DreadCentral. 9 August 2012.
- ^ "David Slade Talks Twilight Saga: Eclipse; New TV Spot "Something New"". DreadCentral. 10 June 2010.
- ^ "David Slade to Direct Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" (Press release). Summit Entertainment. 22 April 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
- ^ DAVID A SLADE [@DAVID_A_SLADE] (5 March 2012). "ALL TIME top 5 "PERFORMANCE"Roeg/Cammell. "WINGS OF DESIRE" Wim Wenders. "2001/Clockwork Orange" Kubrick "POSSESSION" Zulawski No surprises" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ DAVID A SLADE [@DAVID_A_SLADE] (5 March 2012). "@AussieBecka Nic Roeg/Donald Cammell's "Performance"" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "So Funny, It's Scary: Hollywood's Top Horror Directors to Bring Original Comedy Pilots to Xbox 360 This Fall". Microsoft. 23 July 2008. Archived from the original on 5 September 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2008.
External links
- David Slade at IMDb