Marc Munden | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | |
| Occupation | Director |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Honours | British Academy of Film and Television Arts Royal Television Society Award International Emmy Award Contents
|
Marc Munden is an English film director best known for his work on Utopia , National Treasure and The Mark of Cain among others.
Munden was born in London, England. His father, Maxwell Munden, was a filmmaker who made films for the Ministry of Information (United Kingdom) during World War 2. [1] One such film was Song of the People which was a musical about factory workers. Munden studied Maths and Philosophy at University College London. [2]
Munden began his career as an assistant to Mike Leigh, Derek Jarman, and Terence Davies before directing documentaries for television at the BBC.
His first film, Bermondsey Boy (1991), was a documentary examining some of the myths of masculinity, which won a Silver Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival and was nominated for the BFI Award for Innovation.
In 2007 Munden directed The Mark of Cain , picking up the BAFTA Award for Best Single Drama and earning Munden his first nomination for Best Director. He also received BAFTA nominations for The Devil's Whore (2009) and The Crimson Petal and the White (2011).
Munden went on to direct the cult hit Utopia (2013–2014). The series received high praise for its striking visuals, but also some expressions of concern about its violence. Mark Monahan of The Daily Telegraph described it as “a dark, tantalisingly mysterious overture,” [3] while Sam Wollaston of The Guardian called it “a work of brilliant imagination,” “a 21st-century nightmare” that “looks beautiful,” but also wondered about the gratuitousness of its violence. [4] The series won an International Emmy Award for Best Drama Series in 2014 and Munden received a BAFTA nomination for Best Director.
In 2016 Munden directed National Treasure starring Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters and Andrea Riseborough. The series focuses on a beloved British TV comic who gets accused of rape. Over the course of the series, the show examines the psychology of this man as well as how his family perceive him. National Treasure received critical acclaim upon release with many reviewers noting the sensitivity of Jack Thorne's screenwriting, the nuanced character portrayals and Munden's distinctive artistic style. [5] Munden would go on to win the BAFTA for Best Director and the series overall won Best Miniseries.
In 2017 Munden teamed up with writer Tony Grisoni to make Crazy Diamond as part of the Channel 4/Amazon Video anthology series Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams . [6]
In 2018 it was announced that Munden was to helm the film The Secret Garden for David Heyman & Studiocanal. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 book, the story centers on Mary Lennox, a troubled, sickly, 10-year-old orphan who is sent to live with an uncle in England when her parents die in a cholera outbreak.
In 2020, Munden reunited with Utopia creator Dennis Kelly, directing the first three episodes of Kelly's HBO miniseries The Third Day . [7] In 2021, he teamed with Jack Thorne for the Channel 4 drama Help , about a young care home worker struggling during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.
Help was nominated for six British Academy Television Awards winning two for Jodie Comer and Cathy Tyson. [8]
In October 2022, it was announced that Munden's next project would be a series adaptation of Never Let Me Go . [9] The series is in the works with FX and will be produced by DNA TV, Searchlight Television and FXP. Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich and Melissa Iqbal are executive producing alongside Munden. [10] It will premiere on Hulu in the United States, Star in other territories and Star+ in Latin America with Viola Prettejohn, Tracey Ullman and Kelly Macdonald taking on starring roles. [11] FX ultimately chose not to move forward with the adaptation. [12]
In January 2023, Munden was announced as one of the directors for HBO's The Sympathizer , joining directors Park Chan-wook and Fernando Meirelles. Munden is set to direct the final three episodes of the series, which stars Hoa Xuande alongside Robert Downey Jr. and is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. [13]
In September 2024, it was announced that Munden's next project would be an adaptation of Lord of the Flies for the BBC. The series will see Munden reteam with writer Jack Thorne as well as be joined by composer Hans Zimmer.
Director
TV movies
TV series
| Year | Title | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | From Wimps to Warriors |
|
| 1993 | Forty Minutes |
|
| 1995 | Modern Times | |
| 1997 | Touching Evil |
|
| 1998 | Vanity Fair |
|
| 2000 | The Secret World of Michael Fry (2000 TV series) |
|
| 2003 | Canterbury Tales |
|
| 2004 | Conviction |
|
| 2008 | The Devil's Mistress |
|
| 2011 | The Crimson Petal and the White |
|
| 2014 | Black Sails |
|
| 2013-2014 | Utopia |
|
| 2015 | Quantico |
|
| 2016 | National Treasure |
|
| 2017 | Electric Dreams |
|
| 2020 | The Third Day |
|
| 2024 | The Sympathizer |
|
| 2025 | Lord of the Flies |
Alexander Medawar Garland is an English author, screenwriter, and director. He rose to prominence with his novel The Beach (1996). He subsequently received praise for writing the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later (2002) and Sunshine (2007), as well as Never Let Me Go (2010) and Dredd (2012). In video games, he co-wrote Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010) and served as a story supervisor on DmC: Devil May Cry (2013).
Benjamin John Whishaw is an English actor. After winning a British Independent Film Award for his performance in My Brother Tom (2001), he was nominated for an Olivier Award for his portrayal of the title role in a 2004 production of Hamlet. This was followed by television roles in Nathan Barley (2005), Criminal Justice (2008) and The Hour (2011–12) and film roles in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Brideshead Revisited (2008), and Bright Star (2009). For Criminal Justice, Whishaw received an International Emmy Award and received his first BAFTA Award nomination.
Never Let Me Go is a 2005 science fiction novel by the British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize, for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. Time magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included the novel in its "100 Best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME". It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017. A film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek was released in 2010; a Japanese television drama aired in 2016.
Dennis Kelly is a British writer and producer. He has worked for theatre, television, and film.
Gillian Schieber Flynn is an American author, screenwriter, and producer, best known for her thriller and mystery novels Sharp Objects (2006), Dark Places (2009), and Gone Girl (2012), all of which have received critical acclaim. Her works have been translated into 40 languages, and by 2016, Gone Girl had sold over 15 million copies worldwide.
Randall Thorne, better known by his pseudonyms RT! and R.T. Thorne, is a Canadian writer, producer and director. He began his career as a music video director for Sean Paul, George Nozuka, Keshia Chanté and Shawn Desman, before directing episodes of television series include Degrassi: The Next Generation, Make It Pop, Backstage and Find Me in Paris. He received three iHeartRadio MMVAs for directing.
James Bobin is a British filmmaker. He worked as a director and writer on Da Ali G Show and helped create the characters of Ali G, Borat, and Brüno. With Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, he co-created Flight of the Conchords. He directed the feature films The Muppets (2011), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), and Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) from Disney, and Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019) from Paramount Pictures.
Sandra A. Goldbacher is a British film director, TV director, and screenwriter.
Johnny Harris is an English actor, screenwriter, producer and director.
Cary Joji Fukunaga is an American filmmaker. He is known for directing critically acclaimed films such as the thriller Sin nombre (2009), the period drama Jane Eyre (2011), the war drama Beasts of No Nation (2015) and the 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die (2021). He also co-wrote the Stephen King adaptation It (2017). He was the first director of East Asian descent to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, as the director and executive producer of the first season of the HBO series True Detective (2014). He also directed and executive produced the Netflix limited series Maniac (2018), and executive produced and directed several episodes of the Apple TV+ miniseries Masters of the Air (2024).
Jack Thorne FRSL is a British playwright, television writer, screenwriter, and producer.
Adeel Akhtar is a British actor. In 2017, he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his role in Murdered by My Father. He was also nominated for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for his role on Channel 4's Utopia, as well as a British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Ali & Ava. Akhtar received critical acclaim for his performance in BBC One's Sherwood, receiving the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor. He is a two-time nominee for Outstanding Supporting Performance at the Children's and Family Emmy Awards for his role in Sweet Tooth, winning in 2023.
Nicola Shindler is a British television producer and executive, and founder of the independent television drama production company Quay Street Productions, having founded and run Red Production Company from 1998 to 2020. She has won eleven BAFTA TV Awards.
Utopia is a British thriller drama television series that was broadcast on Channel 4 from 15 January 2013 to 12 August 2014. The show was written by Dennis Kelly and starred Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Adeel Akhtar, Paul Higgins, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Alexandra Roach, Oliver Woollford, Alistair Petrie, and Neil Maskell. A second six-episode series was commissioned by Channel 4 and went into production in late 2013, and was broadcast in July and August 2014. The show has since gained a cult following.
Ben Bartlett is a British composer known for his numerous film and television scores, including Walking with Dinosaurs, Vera, The Tunnel and Lucky Man.
Juan Cristóbal Tapia de Veer is a Chilean-born Canadian film and television score composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is best known for his score of the British TV series Utopia, for which he won a Royal Television Society award in the best original score category in 2013, and Channel 4's National Treasure, which earned him a BAFTA in 2017. He has received awards from the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada in 2013 and 2017.
Susanna Fogel is an American director, screenwriter and author, best known for co-writing the 2019 film Booksmart and for co-writing and directing the 2018 action/comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me. Her many accolades include a DGA Award and nominations at the BAFTA Film Awards, the Primetime Emmy Awards and the WGA Awards.
Harry Bradbeer is a British director, producer, and writer. He is known for his work on the television series Fleabag and Killing Eve, and the films Enola Holmes and Enola Holmes 2.
The following is a list of unproduced David Fincher projects in roughly chronological order. During his career, American film director David Fincher has worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction. Some of these projects fell in development hell, were officially canceled, were in development limbo or would see life under a different production team.
Help is a 2021 British drama television film about the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, written by Jack Thorne and directed by Marc Munden. It follows Sarah, a young health care assistant who starts working at a care home in Liverpool, where she cares for Tony, a middle-aged man who has early-onset Alzheimer's disease; when the pandemic hits the UK, both their worlds are completely transformed. It premiered on Channel 4 on 16 September 2021.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| People | |
| Other | |
