David Zucker (filmmaker)

David Zucker ( born October 16, 1947 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ) is an American film director and screenwriter, filmmaker and member of the trio ZAZ.

Career

David Zucker began his career in the late 1960s, together with his brother Jerry Zucker and their friend Jim Abrahams with the founding of the Kentucky Fried Theatre, as they brought a program called Vegetables on the stage, which consists of a series of satirical sketches, plain nonsense and attacks on the American way of life was. After unexpected success - the show was sold out for months - went the troops in 1969 to Los Angeles, where continued her triumph. In 1977 there was the first work in Hollywood, as sugar, Abraham and sugar the screenplay for the film Kentucky Fried Movie (directed by John Landis ) wrote.

The common way of three continued with similar crazy films whose typical feature is the parody whole film genres. They committed for their movies exactly the actors who previously played in the sincere cinematic role models, and let them take themselves to the arm. Among her best-known films of this period include The Incredible Journey in a crazy airplane ( 1980), Top Secret! (1984) and The Incredible kidnapping the crazy Mrs. Stone ( 1986).

From the late 1980s, David Zucker concentrated more on his solo career, but his comedies High School High or BASEketball could not repeat his earlier successes. Only in 2003 was sugar again successful worldwide, as it was committed for the third installment of the Scary Movie series. He hired Pat Proft this as a screenwriter, with whom he had previously worked at the Naked Gun series. The fourth part, Scary Movie 4 Scary Movie was the fifth part, highly successful, 5 appeared in 2013. Came in 2008 Superhero Movie in theaters.

Filmography

* Sugar had mostly small cameo appearances, that is, he was either seen only briefly or had to speak a few lines of text in his films.