Mark Palansky

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Mark Palansky
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Occupation(s) film director, screenwriter
Years active1998–present
SpouseTara Palansky

Mark Palansky is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He got his start working as an assistant director on titan film productions such as Armageddon and Pearl Harbor . He then worked as a second unit director on The Island and The Amityville Horror .

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His directorial debut was a 2001 short film called The Same starring Josh Hartnett. The short film was later featured on in the 2005 compilation film Stories of Lost Souls . Palansky made his big screen debut in 2006 with the modern day fairytale Penelope , starring Christina Ricci as a young blueblood cursed with a pig snout. The film received mixed reviews from critics. [1] [2]

In October 2009, it was announced that Palansky was set to direct for Sony Pictures Entertainment an action-adventure film Iron Jack, a project that sparked a bidding war in 2008. The story takes place in the 1930s and tells of a renowned novelist and his quest to unearth a legendary treasure. Sony picked up up-and-coming screenwriter Johnny Rosenthal's spec script for $1.25 million against $2 million, beating offers made from CBS Films, MGM and Spyglass. No production schedule was announced for the film and no further development has been made as of January 2019. [3] [4] [5]

In a 2008 interview, Palansky revealed that he was working on two other projects with actor Peter Dinklage. These were Mendel's Dwarf, described as a scientific love story, and Hop Frog , based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe [6] The latter was set to start principal photography in the second half of 2016, with the title changed to The Jester. [7] In 2017, he directed Dinklage in the science fiction-drama Rememory . That same year, he directed a two-part episode of the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events , based on the book series by Lemony Snicket.

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