Scott Mann (filmmaker)

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Scott Mann is a British film director originally from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham and now living in Los Angeles. [1]

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Career

Before making feature films Mann directed several award-winning short films including Chaingangs (2003) and Tug of War (2006), which starred Julie Goodyear, Marsha Thomason, Scott Neal and Jo Guest.

Mann has also directed several programmes for Granada Television.

His first feature film, The Tournament , [2] an action movie released on 20 October 2009, produced by Keith Bell and written by Gary Young, Jonathan Frank, and Nick Rowntree stars Robert Carlyle, Ving Rhames, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder and Scott Adkins. [3] In 2011, he signed on to direct The Weinstein Company's planned remake of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai , to be set in contemporary Thailand, but the project never materialized. [4] Mann's second feature film, Heist , [2] originally Bus 657, was released on 13 November 2015, starring Robert De Niro, Kate Bosworth, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Dave Bautista. [5]

Filmography

Short films

YearTitleDirectorWriter
1995The SneezeYesNo
2003ChaingangYesNo
2006Pocket ThiefYesYes
Tug of War YesNo

Feature films

YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerNotes
2005Down Amongst the Dead MenYesYesNoCo-directed with Nick Rowntree
2009 The Tournament YesNoNo
2015 Heist YesNoNo
2018 Final Score YesNoNo
2022 Fall YesYesYes

Television

YearTitleDirectorProducerNotes
1999Antique FairYesNo
2001Stars in Their Eyes: KidsYesNo
2004Celebrities ExposedYesYes
2011The Betty Driver StoryYesExecutiveTV movie
2018 Six YesNoEpisode "Indian Country"
2019 The Oath YesNo3 episodes

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References

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