Roger Christian

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Director, Screenwriter, Art Director, Set Designer, Songwriter
Born:
February 25, 1944 in London, England, UK
Biography:From his early work as a set designer on Star Wars (1977) and art director on Alien (1979) to making of one of the biggest box-office turkeys in cinematic sci-fi history, Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Christian has consistently proven himself a man of extraordinary vision -- even if he has yet to successfully focus that vision into a successful directorial career. It was his work on the first Star Wars and Alien films that initially got Christian interested in a career as a filmmaker, and the remarkable detail he bestowed upon those classics showed much stylistic promise. He subsequently tested the waters as a writer, and with surprising success. He penned the screenplay for a film biography of legendary visionary Nostradamus and enrolled in film school in an effort to broaden his horizons. Though his script for a medieval fantasy entitled The Black Angel (1979) was deemed too expensive to produce in a... Full Biography
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