Question: Who was the director of the 1998 action-thriller disaster film produced by Mark Gordon for which Graham Yost is best-known?
Context: Mission to Mars is a 2000 American science fiction film directed by Brian De Palma from an original screenplay written by Jim Thomas, John Thomas, and Graham Yost.  In 2020, a manned Mars exploration mission goes awry.  American astronaut Jim McConnell (Gary Sinise) coordinates a rescue mission for a colleague.  Principal support actors were Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell, and Kim Delaney. Dam 999 is a 2011 3-D science fiction disaster film.  It is an English language UAE–Indian co-production film produced by BizTV Network, UAE and directed by Sohan Roy.  The film is based on the award winning short documentary "DAMs - The Lethal Water Bombs".  and the Banqiao dam disaster of 1975 that claimed the lives of 250,000 people in China and anticipated calamity for outdated dams in the world.  The film falls in the category of an emotional thriller.  The ancient Indian concept of "Navarasas", or the nine human emotions, are represented by an assortment of actors from India and Hollywood.  The movie also portrays the concepts of kamasutra as well as lost love against the backdrop of the story of a dilapidated colonial dam. Graham John Yost (born September 5, 1959) is a Canadian film and television screenwriter.  His best-known works are the films "Speed", "Broken Arrow", and "Hard Rain" and the TV series "Justified".  In 2002, he created the widely acclaimed, yet short-lived drama series "Boomtown". Hard Rain is a 1998 action-thriller disaster film produced by Mark Gordon, written by Graham Yost, and directed by former cinematographer-turned director Mikael Salomon.  It stars Christian Slater, Morgan Freeman, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, and Ed Asner.  It is an international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, and Japan.  The plot centers around a heist and man-made treachery amidst a natural disaster in a small Indiana town. The Apocalypse is a 2007 American direct-to-DVD disaster film produced by The Asylum and released via its Faith Films label.  It has heavy similarity to the 1998 films "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact", however the storyline is drastically different, a recurring theme of some The Asylum's mockbusters. Ice is a 1998 television disaster film starring Grant Show, Udo Kier, and Eva La Rue.  The film has a similar premise as "The Day After Tomorrow", a science fiction disaster film released six years later.  Though completely in English, it first premiered in Germany in 1998 before being aired on ABC in the United States in 2000. Broken Arrow is a 1996 American action film directed by John Woo, written by Graham Yost, and starring John Travolta and Christian Slater.  It deals with the theft of two American nuclear weapons. Fire!  is a 1977 American made-for-television action-drama disaster film produced by Irwin Allen starring Ernest Borgnine, Vera Miles, Patty Duke Astin, Alex Cord, Donna Mills, Lloyd Nolan, Neville Brand, Ty Hardin and Erik Estrada.  It was directed by Earl Bellamy, who directed another made-for-TV disaster film one year before titled "Flood! ". Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an American actor, producer, businessman, former model, and former rapper.  Wahlberg was known as Marky Mark in his early career as frontman for the group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, releasing the albums "Music for the People" and "You Gotta Believe".  Wahlberg later transitioned to acting, appearing in films such as the drama "Boogie Nights" and the satirical war comedy-drama "Three Kings" during the 1990s.  In the 2000s, he starred in the biographical disaster drama "The Perfect Storm", the science fiction film "Planet of the Apes", the heist film "The Italian Job", and the Martin Scorsese-directed neo-noir crime drama "The Departed", for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.  In the 2010s, he starred in the action comedy "The Other Guys" alongside Will Ferrell, the biographical sports drama "The Fighter" (for which he earned an Academy Award nomination as a producer for Best Picture), the comedy "Ted", the war film "Lone Survivor", the crime comedy "Pain & Gain", the science fiction action film "" and the sequel "", the comedy "Daddy's Home", the disaster film "Deepwater Horizon", and the thriller "Patriots Day". Boomtown was a U.S. television action/drama series produced by NBC.  Created by Graham Yost, the show's title is a nickname for its setting, Los Angeles, California.
Answer: Mikael Salomon