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Stephen Hopkins is a Jamaican-born^{[citation needed]} British-Australian^{[citation needed]} director and producer of film and television. He directed Predator 2, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, Blown Away, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Lost in Space and Under Suspicion. He also produced and directed several episodes of the first season of 24.

Career

Film

In Australia Hopkins made Dangerous Game (1987). This helped him get the job directing A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. Hopkins later said, "I went at it like a dog, and had a wild, fun time. But when I look back, I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world because I don't understand how it all happened."[1]

He went on to make Predator 2, of which he said, "I'm pretty immature, really, so it was kind of a laugh".[1] He followed it with Judgment Night ("a real, absolute, total bomb" according to Hopkins[1]), Blown Away ("made a lot of mistakes"[1]) and The Ghost and the Darkness ("It was a mess. I haven't been able to watch it."[1]).

In 2016, Hopkins directed Race, a biopic about athlete Jesse Owens for Focus Features.[2][3] Stephan James plays Jesse Owens, opposite Jason Sudeikis and Jeremy Irons. The film was released in February 2016.

Hopkins said that after Predator 2 he "looked around for a good film for a long time, and I couldn't get anything I wanted to do... I didn't realise the Hollywood trick. In American action movies, people get shot to death and their arms are blown off, and they get up and they're fine. These films are supposed to be fun things that people can laugh at. I always thought, 'That's wrong, that's not what violence is like.' I took these films too seriously and tried to add profound depths, and that's not what's wanted. You either do that film or you do the other one, but I kept mixing the two up, and probably unsuccessfully.'"[1]

Television

Hopkins has directed a number of episodes for television. He was a co-executive producer for the first season of the Fox action drama 24, and also directed half of the season's episodes, including the first and last episodes. He is also co-executive producer on 24: Legacy, and director of the show's pilot episode. Hopkins has also directed a number of episodes of Showtime's series House of Lies starring Don Cheadle which premiered on 8 January 2012. He is also a producer on the series.

In 2004, Hopkins directed the controversial biographical film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, which was broadcast by HBO in the United States but received a theatrical release in a number of countries. The film provoked the ire of the actor's son Michael Sellers and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special.[4]

in 2019 Hopkins directed the pilot episode for a potential The Dark Tower series for Amazon.[5] However Amazon passed on the series.[6]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Notes
1986	Highlander	Second Unit Director
1987	Dangerous Game	Director / Co-writer
1989	A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child	Nominated for: Fantasporto Critics Award Fantasporto Film Festival Award for Best Film
1990	Predator 2	Nominated for: Fantasporto Film Festival Award for Best Film
1993	Judgment Night
1994	Blown Away
1996	The Ghost and the Darkness
1998	Lost in Space	Producer / Director
1999	Tube Tales	Producer and director/ writer 1 segment
2000	Under Suspicion	Producer / Director
2007	The Reaping	Producer / Director
2016	Race	Producer / Director

Television

Year	Title	Notes
1991-94	Tales from the Crypt	3 episodes
2001-02	24	Director / co-executive producer Pilot and 12 episodes Nominated: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series
2004	Traffic	Miniseries – executive producer / director 3 episodes Nominated: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie
	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Television film Won: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Movie Nominated: Palme d'Or DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television
2007-13	Californication	Executive producer / director Pilot and 2 episodes
2009	The Unusuals	Executive producer / director Pilot Episode
	In Plain Sight	1 episode
2010	Thorne	Executive producer / director 4 hour mini series Won: Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries
2011	Shameless	1 episode
2012-14	House of Lies	Executive producer / director Pilot and 23 episodes
2016	Houdini & Doyle	Executive producer / director Miniseries Pilot and 1 episode
2016-17	24: Legacy	Executive producer / director Pilot and 2 episodes
2019	The Dark Tower	Executive producer / director Pilot
2020	The Fugitive	14 episodes

References

External links

• Stephen Hopkins at IMDb
• Stephen Hopkins at AllMovie

На других языках

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[de] Stephen Hopkins (Regisseur)

Stephen Hopkins (* 1958 auf Jamaika) ist ein britisch-australischer Regisseur und Produzent.

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- [en] Stephen Hopkins (director)

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[es] Stephen Hopkins (director)

Stephen Hopkins (1 de junio de 1958) es un director y productor de cine británico-australiano nacido en Jamaica.

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[ru] Хопкинс, Стивен (режиссёр)

Стивен Хопкинс (англ. Stephen Hopkins; род. 1958 (1958), Ямайка) — американский кинорежиссёр и продюсер. Он снял фильмы «Хищник 2», «Сметённые огнём», «Кошмар на улице Вязов: Дитя сна», крайне успешный фильм «Жизнь и смерть Питера Селлерса» и байопик о Джесси Оуэнсе «Сила воли». Он также был продюсером и режиссёром нескольких эпизодов очень успешного первого сезона сериала «24 часа».

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