Steven Lisberger
Steven Lisberger ( born April 24, 1951 in New York City ) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.
Life
During his studies at MIT Lisberger lived in 1975 a presentation of MAGI / Synthavison (Mathematics Application Group, Inc.) computer system at. The head of the company, Phil Mittleman presented, for 17 minutes of computer animation for advertising purposes, Lisberger was immediately fascinated by the opportunities it offers. When he then saw the computer game Pong, he thought of a story that should play in a computer, similar to Spartacus, one of his favorite movies. Previously, he realized in 1980 the animated film The Jungle Olympics ( Animalympics ), whose success was rather low because of the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. From April to July 1981, he then turned with money from the Disney Studios, his dream project Tron. With a budget of 17 million U.S. $ of the film in the U.S. played just 33 million U.S. $ a (ET ran at the same time and broke all box office records ), but considered by fans of the genre long since become cult film. It was followed by two more feature films in the 1980s: Danny, always five minutes late ( Hot Pursuit ) with John Cusack and Slipstream with Mark Hamill. Then it was quiet around Steven Lisberger, the long-awaited sequel to Tron ended first with his involvement as a computer game Tron 2.0 for PC and Xbox. 2010, the Tron sequel Tron Legacy was in the cinema, Lisberger acts as producer and co - screenwriter.