Edward John Drake | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 December 1990 Melbourne, Australia |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Website | Official website |
Edward John Drake (born 26 December 1990) is an Australian screenwriter and film director based in Los Angeles, California. [1]
Drake's first production was Where Were You (2010), a short web series in the zombie genre which was made for just under $150. [2] The series explores the ways in which a real-world pandemic would affect the modern world by looking at seven key interwining stories at different stages of the infection. WWY was a finalist in the inaugural competition of Movie Network's Movie Extra WebFest. [3]
Animals (2012), Drake's first feature film, began shooting in Newport on January 14, 2012, [4] starring Sweeney Young, Melissa Howard, Jeremy Kewley, Reg Gorman and Scott Brennan. [5]
Drake worked repeatedly with Bruce Willis: He wrote and directed the films Cosmic Sin , starring Bruce Willis, Frank Grillo, and Adelaide Kane, [6] and Apex (2021), starring Neal McDonough and Bruce Willis. [7] He wrote and executive produced Breach , starring Willis and Thomas Jane. [8]
Of his non-Willis-work, he wrote and directed Broil, starring Johnathan Lipnicki, Lochlyn Munro, and Timothy V. Murphy. [9] The film was selected for Fantaspoa 2020 and several other film festivals. [10]
Drake is the 2020 winner of the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Award (Dramatic) for The Young Woman. [11]
Jay Bauman of Red Letter Media has described Drake as "the worst filmmaker in history" and as "his archnemesis" for his work on Apex, American Siege, and Gasoline Alley. [12] [13]
Nerdbot described Drake as "the American Uwe Boll, making bad films solely for the purpose of being about to do so" and that his work on Geezer teasers are an "insult to screenwriting" while describing Cosmic Sin as "one of the worst films of its kind in recent memory." [14] WKRO-FM ranked Cosmic Sin as the sixth worst sci-fi film of all time. [15]