Peter Hyams
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Peter Hyams (born July 26, 1943) is an American screenwriter, director and cinematographer, probably best known for directing the 1984 sci-fi adventure 2010 (the sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey), and the 1999 horror/action hit End Of Days starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Hyams was born in New York City, New York, the son of Ruth Hurok and Darren Hyams, who was a theatrical producer and publicist on Broadway. His maternal grandfather was Sol Hurok, the Russian Jewish impresario. His stepfather was blacklisted Arthur Lief. His sister is casting director Nessa Hyams.
[edit] Career
Studied Art and Music at Hunter College and Syracuse University, before working as producer/anchorman for a Chicago TV station. He has described himself as "one of the very few writer/directors of major films who also photographs his own pictures". During his time with CBS (where he worked from 1964 to 1970), he began to shoot documentary films. Hyams moved to Los Angeles in 1970, selling his first screenplay to Paramount Pictures (T.R. Baskin, 1971).
Hyams worked in Television through the early to mid 1970's. His first major film was Capricorn One (1978), a conspiracy thriller about a faked mission to Mars. This was followed by Hanover Street (1979), and Outland (1981), which starred Sean Connery in a 'High Noon' scenario set on Io, one of Jupiter's moons. In 1983, he produced, directed, and wrote the screenplay for 2010 (1984), collaborating closely with author Arthur C. Clarke (2010).
Hyams also co-authored with Clarke The Odyssey File: The Making of 2010, published 1985, a collection of their email correspondence which illustrates their fascination with the then pioneering medium and its use for them to communicate on an almost daily basis at the time of planning and production of the film.
Other notable films Hyams has directed/photographed include: The Star Chamber (1983), Running Scared (1986), The Presidio (1988), Narrow Margin (1990), Timecop (1994), The Relic (1997), and End of Days (1999). In addition, Hyams also directed various episodes of Steven Spielberg's television show, Amazing Stories, executive produced the 80's cult kids movie, The Monster Squad (1986), and co-wrote the screenplay for the Charles Bronson thriller, Telefon (1977). Since the mid-1980s, Hyams has directed several Hollywood-based movies with varying degrees of commercial and critical success. His two most recent films are The Musketeer (2001) and A Sound of Thunder (2005). The Musketeer(2001) was a box office success in the United States. But A Sound of Thunder(2005), which faced many troubles during its production(including the bankruptcy of the original production company during post-production[1]), performed particularly poorly at the box office worldwide.
Hyams is well known for acting as his own cinematographer on the movies he directs.
[edit] Personal life
On December 19, 1964 he married George-Ann Spota, with whom he has three children. (Trivia note: in all his movies appears a minor character named Spota.)
[edit] Filmography
| film (as director) | released | box office | adjusted[1] | |
| A Sound of Thunder | May 15, 2005 | $1,891,821 | [2][DP] | |
| The Musketeer | September 9, 2001 | $27,053,815 | [2][DP] | $30mio |
| End of Days | November 24, 1999 | $66,889,043 | [2][DP] | $82mio |
| The Relic | January 10, 1997 | $33,956,608 | [2][DP] | |
| Sudden Death | October 26, 1995 | $20,214,270 | [2][DP] | |
| Timecop | September 16, 1994 | $44,450,000 | [2][DP] | |
| Stay Tuned | August 14, 1992 | $10,736,401 | [2][DP] | |
| Narrow Margin | September 21, 1990 | $10,873,237 | [2][DP][W] | |
| The Presidio | June 10, 1988 | $20,036,242 | [3][DP] | $31mio |
| Running Scared | June 27, 1986 | $38,500,726 | [2][DP] | |
| 2010 | December 7, 1984 | $40,200,000 | [4][DP][W] | |
| The Star Chamber | August 5, 1983 | $5,600,000 | [2][W] | |
| Outland | May 22, 1981 | $17,374,595 | [5][W] | |
| Hanover Street | May 18, 1979 | $3,000,000 | [2][W] | |
| Capricorn One | June 1978 | [W] | ||
| Peeper | 1975 | |||
| Busting | February 1974 | [W] | ||
| Our Time | 1974 | [W] |
Additionally he directed in 1972 the TV movies Goodnight, My Love and Rolling Man.
Currently working on Capricorn Two, a remake of Capricorn One, with projected release date in 2008.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ also screenwriter
- ^ also director of photography
- ^ inflation adjusted using movies (released at the same time) from The Numbers - All Time Highest Grossing Movies in the United States Since 1977, Inflation Adjusted
- ^ taken from Peter Hyams Box Office Data
- ^ taken from Business Data for Outland
- ^ taken from Business Data for 2010
- ^ taken from Business Data for The Presidio
[edit] External links
- Peter Hyams at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview with Peter Hyams by Luke Ford
- Box Office Data at The Numbers
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