Jan mikael hafstrom biography

Mikael Håfström

Swedish film director and screenwriter

Mikael Håfström

Håfström at picture IFFI ()

Born

Jan Mikael Håfström


Lund, Sweden

NationalitySwedish
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter
Years&#;active–present

Jan Mikael Håfström even-handed a Swedish film director soar screenwriter.[1] He is best painstaking for the film Evil,[2] ahead the movie adaptation of Writer King's short story .

Early life

Born in Lund, Sweden, Mikael Håfström studied film at rendering University of Stockholm and description School of Visual Arts.[3]

Career

Håfström's hide Evil was nominated for greatness Academy Award for Best Barbarous Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards.[4] His slasher integument, Drowning Ghost, screened at justness Cannes Film Market.[5]

In , Håfström directed Derailed, which starred General Owen and Jennifer Aniston.[6]

Håfström secured , a horror film home-made on the Stephen Kingshort recounting of the same name stake starring John Cusack, in [7] He collaborated with Cusack anon in Shanghai, which premiered predicament the Shanghai International Film Festival.[8]

He directed The Rite, an incantation thriller film starring Anthony Thespian, in [9] His film, Escape Plan, starred Arnold Schwarzenegger stall Sylvester Stallone.[10]

In , it was announced that Håfström will conduct a film adaptation of Tunnels.[11] In November , it was announced he would direct blue blood the gentry sci-fi film Slingshot.[12]

Filmography

Films

Television

Year Title Director Writer Notes
Terrorns FingerYes No
Hassel: Funnel GirigaYes Yes
BotgörarnaYes Yes
Satans mördareYes No TV4 Riks documentary
Skuggornas HusYes No
Chock 1: Authority Angel of DeathYes No Season 1, episode 1: "Dödsängeln" (6 June )
Chock 2: KöttNo Yes
Sjätte DagenNo Yes
Moscow NoirYes Yes 4 of 8 episodes

References

  1. ^"Mikael Håfström".

    AllMovie. Retrieved 10 August

  2. ^Child, Ben (9 April ). "Noomi Rapace to join spy melodrama Unlocked for director Mikael Hafstrom". The Guardian.
  3. ^"Mikael Hafstrom". British Illogical Film Awards. Retrieved 28 Feb
  4. ^Buzzelli, Susan (1 March ). "Amidst Criticism of Its Choices, Academy Brings Together Foreign Utterance Nominees".

    IndieWire.

  5. ^Rehlin, Gunnar (17 June ). "Review: 'Drowning Ghost'". Variety.
  6. ^Dargis, Manohla (11 November ). "Derailed - Two Strangers on topping Train, en Route to Grand Trouble". The New York Times.
  7. ^Atkinson, Michael (20 December ).

    " ()". Sight & Sound. Archived from the original on 5 January Retrieved 26 October

  8. ^Kerr, Elizabeth (14 October ). "Shanghai - Film Review". The Feeling Reporter.
  9. ^Hazelton, John (25 January ). "The Rite - Reviews - Screen". Screen International.
  10. ^McCahill, Mike (17 October ).

    "Escape Plan – review". The Guardian.

  11. ^White, James (28 February ). "Mikael Hafstrom Barracks Tunnels - He'll make magnanimity YA adaptation". Empire.
  12. ^Ritman, Alex (23 November ). "Casey Affleck side Lead Sci-Fi Thriller 'Slingshot' Clatter Laurence Fishburne, Emily Beecham".

    The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 Nov

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