Neil Marshall
Neil Marshall ( born May 25, 1970 in Newcastle upon Tyne ) is a British film director and screenwriter.
Already as a teenager turned Marshall on Super 8 mm his first films. After graduating film school in Newcastle, he worked first as an editor.
With Dog Soldiers put Marshall 2002, his debut. The produced with little money werewolf movie was released in England quite successfully in the cinema, but emigrated to other countries, most directly in the video analysis. 2005 Marshall succeeded with the horror film The Descent of the international break. Since 2005 he has next to Alexandre Aja, Darren Lynn Bousman, Greg McLean, Eli Roth, Robert Rodriguez, James Wan, Leigh Whannell and Rob Zombie for Splat Pack, a group of the so- Alan Jones of Total Film, because of their brutality and extreme hardness was titled. Marshall won for The Descent British Independent Film Award for " Best Director of a British Independent Film" and also won the Saturn Award for Best Horror Movie.
After this success, Marshall turned his dystopian sci-fi action-thriller Doomsday (2008) and the historical action film Centurion (2010). In 2011 he directed the ninth episode of the second season of the HBO series Game of Thrones. In May 2012, he superseded David Slade as a director of the vampire thriller The Last Voyage of the Demeter, in which Ben Kingsley and Noomi Rapace play the main role. In September 2013 he was the director at the U.S. remake of the Norwegian found-footage documentary horror film Troll Hunter.