Brian Trenchard Smith talks to Andrew Staton about everything from almost filming Bruce Lee, giving Nicole Kidman her big break in movies and much more.
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In depth interview
Brian Trenchard-Smith is the famous and prolific Anglo-Australian film/ television director, producer, and writer, renowned for epic movies on a budget. Quentin Tarantino calls him his “favourite obscure director.”
- Brian Trenchard Smith talks to Andrew Staton about everything from;
- Bruce Lee
- Golden Harvest
- Hong Kong
- George Lazenby on fire
- Jimmy Wang Yu in skydive death dive
- Sammo Hung
- Grant Page
- Nicole Kidman
- Mitzi Kapture
- Roger Ward
- Ayers Rock/ Uluru
- Dead End Drive-In
- BMX Bandits
- Silk Stalkings
- Sky High song
- Australian cinema
- Comedy
- Action cinema
- Stunts
- Fire stunt
- And much, much more
Surprise phone guest appearance from outstanding actress Mitzi Kapture.
“Born in England, where his Australian father was in the RAF, Trenchard-Smith attended UK’s prestigious Wellington College, where he neglected studies in favor of acting and making short films, before migrating to Australia. He started as a news film editor, then graduated to network promos before he became one of a group of young people that, as he recalls, “pushed, shoved, lobbied and bullied the government into introducing investment for Australian made films.””
“He persuaded Australia’s largest distributor at the time, the Greater Union Theater Organization, to form an in-house production company that he would run. The company made three successful films in a row, and his career was underway. In parallel careers, he was also founding editor of Australia’s quarterly Movie magazine for 6 years, and has made over 100 trailers for other directors in Australia, Europe, and America.”
“Among early successes were The Man From Hong Kong, a wry James Bond/Chop Sockey cocktail, the Vietnam battle movie Siege Of Firebase Gloria, and the futuristic satire Dead End Drive-In, a particular Tarantino favorite. BMX Bandits showcased a 15-year old Nicole Kidman, won the Prix Chouette in Europe, as Best Saturday Matinee Movie.”
“Miramax’s The Quest/ Frog Dreaming starred ET’s Henry Thomas, and won a prize at Montreal’s Children’s Film Festival. He has directed 43 episodes of television series as diverse as Silk Stalkings, Time Trax, Five Mile Creek, The Others, Flipper, Chemistry, and the Showtime docu-drama DC 9/11: Time Of Crisis, one of five movies he made for the network.”
“Recent films are Long Lost Son, starring Gabrielle Anwar and Chace Crawford for Lifetime, and the family drama disaster movie Arctic Blast, starring Michael Shanks and Bruce Davison, which premiered on Spanish television as the number 1 movie with a 15.6 market share, and more than 2.5 million viewers. In Dublin, he made The Cabin, a rom-com starring Lea Thompson for the Hallmark Channel. He produced and directed Absolute Deception, a thriller starring Academy Award Winner Cuba Gooding Jr. Recently released through Image is Drive Hard, an offbeat action comedy with John Cusack as the bank robber and Thomas Jane as his reluctant driver.”
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