Greg McLean

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Greg Mclean
Born	Australia
Occupation	Film director Film producer Screenwriter

Greg McLean is an Australian film director, producer and writer.

[edit] Biography

His original ambition was to be an artist. He studied to become one for many years, but then had an epiphany that "films are basically the art of the 21st century".

His first full length film, in 2005, was Australian independent horror film Wolf Creek. It did fairly well with both critics and at the box office. Audiences praised the film's ability to be truly frightening, although some critics and audience disliked the film, apparently because of its gory content and subject matter - film critic Roger Ebert, for example, gave the film 0 stars. The film, nevertheless, has something of a cult following.

Mclean's next film Rogue is about a group of tourists in Australia's Northern Territory, including an American journalist played by Michael Vartan, who become prey to a deadly salt-water crocodile. The film received an R rating in the US, unlike McLean's previous movie Wolf Creek, which received an NC-17 rating until being edited to obtain an R rating.

Rogue was released in Australia on November 8, 2007, with other countries to follow.