The Holy Trinity of Geek Directors
by YourArgumentIsInvalid | created - 10 Nov 2011 | updated - 10 Nov 2011 | PublicThese are the three directors that I think of as the Trinity of Geekdom. Those of you that are total geeks (like myself) know what I am talking about. Whenever a fantasy/ science-fiction movie comes out with one of these people attached, we automatically know that this movie will be good.
1. Joss Whedon
Producer | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Joss Whedon is the middle of five brothers - his younger brothers are Jed Whedon and Zack Whedon. Both his father, Tom Whedon and his grandfather, John Whedon were successful television writers. Joss' mother, Lee Stearns, was a history teacher and she also wrote novels as Lee Whedon. Whedon was ...
Came up with the show Firefly (which is criminally underrated) and has now been tasked with directing the Avengers movie.
2. Peter Jackson
Producer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Sir Peter Jackson made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to direct three major feature films simultaneously. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King were nominated for and collected a slew of awards from around the globe, with The ...
Took three of the best books of all time and turned them into (at least I think) three of the best movies of all time. He also got us to take fantasy movies seriously, until Eragon and In the Name of the King came along and *beep* it all up.
3. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Tenet
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...
His crowning achievement is the resurrection of the Batman franchise, as well as getting us to take comic book movies seriously again
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