Andrew Niccol
Andrew M. Niccol( born 10 June 1964) is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director.
He wrote and directed" Gattaca"( 1997)," Simone"( 2002)," Lord of War"( 2005)," In Time"( 2011)," The Host"( 2013), and" Good Kill"( 2014).
He also wrote and co-produced" The Truman Show", which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1999 and won a BAFTA award for Best Screenplay.
His films tend to explore social, cultural and political issues, as well as artificial realities or simulations.
His film" Good Kill" was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival.
Joseph Zito
Joseph Zito( born May 14, 1946) is an American film director and producer, best known for directing several cult and genre films throughout the 1980s, such as" Missing in ActionInvasion U.S.A.Red Scorpion The Prowler", and, In 1985- 1986, Zito spent a year of pre-production on the Cannon version of" Spider- Man", a film that was evidently never actually made.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is a 1984 American slasher film directed by Joseph Zito, produced by Frank Mancuso Jr., and starring Kimberly Beck, Corey Feldman, Crispin Glover, and Ted White as Jason Voorhees.
It is the fourth installment in the "Friday the 13th" film series.
Picking up immediately after the events of "Friday the 13th Part III", the story follows a presumed-dead Jason Voorhees brought to the morgue, where he spontaneously revives and escapes, returning to Crystal Lake to continue his killing spree.
Much like "Part III", the film was originally supposed to be the final installment in the series.
Mancuso Jr. wanted to conclude the series as he felt nobody respected him for his assisting work on the series regardless of how much the films earned at the box office, as well as wanting to work on other projects.
Paramount Pictures supported the decision, as they were aware of the declining popularity of slasher films at the time of its release.
As a result, the film was marketed as "The Final Chapter" to ensure it as such.
Make-up artist Tom Savini, who worked on the first film, returned because he wanted to help kill off Jason, whom he helped create.
The film was originally scheduled to be released in October, but was pushed up to April 13, 1984.
Upon its theatrical release, the film grossed $33 million in the U.S. on a budget of $2.6 million, making it the fourth most attendance of the "Friday the 13th" series with approximately 9,815,700 tickets sold.
The film received generally negative reviews from critics.
Despite being billed as the final film, its success prompted another sequel, , one year later.
Walt Gorney
Walter J. Gorney( April 12, 1912 – March 5, 2004) was an Austrian- born American actor.
He was best known for his role as" Crazy" Ralph in the 1980s slasher films" Friday the 13th"( 1980) and" Friday the 13th Part 2"( 1981).
He returned to the series in( 1988) as the narrator.
His other film credits include" Heavy Traffic"( 1981)," King Kong"( 1976), and" Day of the Animals"( 1977).
Walter's character Ralph was parodied by" Robert Donner" in the 1983 film" Hysterical".
On March 5, 2004, Gorney died in New York City, aged 91.
Gattaca
Gattaca is a 1997 American science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol.
It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, with Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin appearing in supporting roles.
The film presents a biopunk vision of a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents.
The film centers on Vincent Freeman, played by Hawke, who was conceived outside the eugenics program and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination to realize his dream of going into space.
The film draws on concerns over reproductive technologies that facilitate eugenics, and the possible consequences of such technological developments for society.
It also explores the idea of destiny and the ways in which it can and does govern lives.
Characters in" Gattaca" continually battle both with society and with themselves to find their place in the world and who they are destined to be according to their genes.
The film's title is based on the letters G, A, T, and C, which stand for guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA.
It was a 1997 nominee for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
The film flopped at the box office, but it received generally positive reviews and has since gained a cult following.
Friday the 13th Part III
Friday the 13th Part III( also known as Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D) is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Steve Miner, produced by Frank Mancuso Jr., and starring Dana Kimmell, Paul Kratka, and Richard Brooker as Jason Voorhees.
It is the third installment in the" Friday the 13th" film series.
Set immediately after the events of" Friday the 13th Part 2", the plot follows a teenage girl and her friends at a house on Crystal Lake, where a wounded Jason Voorhees has taken refuge.
The film marks the debut of Voorhees wearing his signature hockey mask, which has become a trademark of both the character and the franchise, as well as an icon in American cinema and the horror genre in general.
The original storyline was supposed to focus on a post-traumatic
Ginny Field who began learning self defense and returned to college after surviving her ordeal in the previous film.
After finding Paul's corpse inside her dormitory, she prepares to track down Voorhees and face him in a final confrontation.
However, this concept was abandoned when Amy Steel declined to reprise her role.
" Part III" was theatrically released in 3D, and is the only film in the series to be released in that format.
The film was intended to end the series as a trilogy, however the film did not include a moniker in its title to indicate it as such.
The film was theatrically released on August 13, 1982, grossing$ 36.7 million at the US box office on a budget of$ 2.2 million and received negative reviews from critics.
It was the first film to remove" E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial" from the number- one spot and became the second highest- grossing horror film of 1982, behind" Poltergeist".
It has the third most attendance of the" Friday the 13th" franchise, with approximately 11,762,400 tickets sold.
It was followed by.
Alex Ebel
Alex Ebel( November 14, 1932 – December 6, 2013) was a science fiction and fantasy illustrator.
Ebel painted the poster for the original" Friday the 13th"( 1980), and an unused poster for" Friday the 13th Part 2".
Nick Mennell
Nick Mennell is an American actor known for his stage work as well as his roles in the horror/ slasher remakes of" Halloween", and" Friday the 13th".
Friday the 13th Part 2
Friday the 13th Part 2 is a 1981 American slasher film produced and directed by Steve Miner in his directorial debut, written by Ron Kurz, and starring Amy Steel and John Furey.
The film also features the return of Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer and Walt Gorney, who respectively portrayed Alice Hardy, Pamela Voorhees, and Crazy Ralph in the prior installment.
It is the second installment in the" Friday the 13th" film series and a direct sequel to" Friday the 13th"( 1980).
It picks up five years later, where a new murderer begins stalking the camp counselors at a nearby training camp on Crystal Lake.
Originally," Part 2" was intended to be part of an anthology series of films based on the Friday the 13th superstition.
However, after the popularity of the original film's surprise ending, the filmmakers opted to continue the story and mythology surrounding Camp Crystal Lake, a trend which would be repeated in every film in the franchise.
Like the original film," Part 2" faced opposition from the Motion Picture Association of America, who noted its" accumulative violence" as problematic, resulting in numerous cuts being made to allow an R rating.
The film was released theatrically in North America on April 30, 1981.
Although it did not gross as much as the original, the sequel grossed$ 21.7 million in the U.S. on a budget of$ 1.2 million.
A sequel," Friday the 13th Part III", was released the following year.
Friday the 13th (2009 film)
Friday the 13th is a 2009 American slasher film directed by Marcus Nispel and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift from a screen story by Shannon, Swift and Mark Wheaton.
It is a reboot of the" Friday the 13th" film series, which began in 1980.
Nispel also directed the 2003 remake of Tobe Hooper's" The Texas Chain Saw Massacre"( 1974), while Shannon and Swift wrote the screenplay for the 2003 crossover" Freddy vs. Jason".
The film was produced by Platinum Dunes and Crystal Lake Entertainment and distributed by New Line Cinema and Paramount Pictures.
It stars Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Aaron Yoo, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, and Derek Mears and follows Clay Miller( Padalecki) as he searches for his missing sister, Whitney( Righetti), who is captured by Jason Voorhees( Mears) while camping in woodland at Crystal Lake.
The film was originally conceived as an origin story, but the project evolved into a re-imagining of the first four" Friday the 13th" films.
The character Jason Voorhees was redesigned as a lean, quick killer with a backstory that allows the viewer to feel sympathy for him, but not enough that he would lose his menace.
In keeping with the tone of the film, Jason's mask was recreated from a mold of the original mask used for" Part III"; though there were subtle changes.
" Friday the 13th" includes some of Harry Manfredini's musical score from the previous" Friday the 13th" films because the producers recognized its iconic status.
" Friday the 13th" was theatrically released in the United States on February 13, 2009, by New Line Cinema in North American territories and by Paramount Pictures internationally.
The film had grossed over$ 92.7 million at the box office on a budget of$ 19 million, becoming the first highest- grosssing film in the franchise.
It received mostly negative reviews from critics, who felt that did not add anything new to the franchise.

Question: Do both films Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter and Gattaca have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no