E. J. Foerster

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Eric J. Foerster is an American stuntman, film director, second unit director, and actor most known for his collaborations with Tom Dey, Breck Eisner, and Brian Levant.

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Career

In 1993, Foerster started his second unit directing career on Patrick Hasburgh's Aspen Extreme . In a 2021 interview, Hasburgh credits Foerster with shooting Doug Coombs, saying "Doug Coombs. I mean, fuck, Doug Coombs. It was done with movie magic, but boy did that work as a piece of film. I have to give credit to E.J. Foerster [second unit director]; he shot that part. Even to this day, that film captures Doug." [1]

His next credit as second-unit director is James Cameron's 1994 film True Lies , with him taking over the big chase scene. According to cinematographer Russell Carpenter, Foerster and the second unit continued work on the scene after Cameron and the rest of the first unit crew left to shoot more scenes. "We shot a lot of the sequence at Boreal, a ski resort near Lake Tahoe, and the rest at Donner Pass, in California... The first unit spent three or four days there, and the second unit, led by director E.J. Foerster and cinematographer Shelly Johnson, spent about five more days. While the first unit was off shooting other scenes, the second unit blocked in the lighting for all four quadrants. Fill light was usually just bounced off the snow. Our thinking was, 'We've got the world's biggest bounce cards right here/ so we would fill by bouncing a conventional HMI into the snow." [2]

Foerster joined the Rhythm & Hues Commercial Studios in early 2009. [3]

In 2023, Foerster made his directorial debut with the father-daughter coming-of-age comedy-drama film Gringa, starring Steve Zahn. [4]

The films Foerster has directed second unit on include The Chronicles of Riddick , Year One , Snow Dogs , Vice , Godzilla , Tropic Thunder , Sahara , The Crazies , and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer . [5]

Filmography

YearTitle Stunts Second unit director Director
1993 Aspen Extreme NoYes Patrick Hasburgh
1994 True Lies NoYes James Cameron
1996 Alaska NoYes Fraser Clarke Heston
1997 Private Parts NoYes Betty Thomas
Out to Sea NoYes Martha Coolidge
Kundun NoYes Martin Scorsese
1998 Deep Impact NoYes Mimi Leder
The X-Files NoYes Rob Bowman
Patch Adams NoYes Tom Shadyac
1999 The 13th Warrior NoYes John McTiernan
2000 Shanghai Noon NoYes Tom Dey
2002 Snow Dogs NoYes Brian Levant
Showtime NoYesTom Dey
2003 Shanghai Knights NoYes David Dobkin
The Rundown NoYes Peter Berg
Dreamcatcher NoYes Lawrence Kasdan
2004 The Chronicles of Riddick NoYes David Twohy
2005 Sahara NoYes Breck Eisner
2006 The Shaggy Dog NoYes Brian Robbins
Charlotte's Web NoYes Gary Winick
Eragon NoYes Stefen Fangmeier
2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer NoYes Tim Story
2008 Tropic Thunder NoYes Ben Stiller
The X-Files: I Want to Believe NoYes Chris Carter
2009 Year One NoYes Harold Ramis
2010 The Crazies YesYesBreck Eisner
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse NoYes David Slade
2011 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 NoYes Bill Condon
2012 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 NoYes
2013 Carrie NoYes Kimberly Peirce
2014 Godzilla NoYes Gareth Edwards
2015 Hot Pursuit YesYes Anne Fletcher
2016 Office Christmas Party NoYes Will Speck and Josh Gordon
2017 Max 2: White House Hero NoYesBrian Levant
Snatched NoYes Jonathan Levine
The Greatest Showman NoYes Michael Gracey
2018 Vice YesYes Adam McKay
Death Wish YesYes Eli Roth
2023 Murder Mystery 2 YesYes Jeremy Garelick

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References

  1. "The Writer of 'Aspen Extreme' Had an Entirely Different Movie in Mind". June 2, 2021. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
  2. "The American Society of Cinematographers - True Lies Tests Cinema's Limits" . Retrieved October 29, 2024.
  3. "Rhythm+Hues Adds Director E.J. Foerster". March 6, 2009. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
  4. "Steve Zahn Escapes "Planet of the Apes" for "Gringa"". July 2019. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
  5. "E.J. Foerster" . Retrieved October 29, 2024.