David Karlak Explained

David Karlak
Birth Place:Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Occupation:Film director
Website:http://www.davidkarlak.com/

David Karlak is a Mexican-American director and writer, known for short films, The Candidate and Rise.

Biography

David Karlak is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California.[1] In 2010 Karlak directed the short film The Candidate that went on to make the Viewfinder List in 2011.[2] Following The Candidate, Karlak sold an original sci-fi pitch to Warner Brothers titled Rise with Roy Lee producing,[3] and then a second original pitch titled Outliers to 20th Century Fox with Peter Chernin producing.[4] Karlak is attached to direct both films. In recent years, Karlak has been exploring the use of virtual reality to tell narratives, having directed a virtual reality experience set in the world of Rise[5] which premiered it at the Storyscapes series at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014.[6]

Karlak most recently has been working with 20th Century Fox to direct two virtual reality experiences for Ridley Scott's film .[7] [8] [9] [10] The first experience, Alien: Covenant In Utero premiered April 26, 2017 for Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR.[11]

On March 3, 2017, Deadline Hollywood reported that Filmula's Johnny Lin and Cross Creek's Brian Oliver acquired the feature film rights to Rise from Warner Brothers with Karlak attached to direct.[12] [13] [14] Rise is about a dystopian future where robots are targeted for elimination after they develop emotional symmetry to humans and a revolutionary war for their survival begins. Anton Yelchin starred in the short, which was based on a screenplay Karlak penned with writers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton (the Saw series).

Filmography

As director

As writer

References

  1. Web site: // about. DAVID KARLAK. en-US. 2017-03-12.
  2. Web site: Best 2011 Short Films, Ads, Music Videos?. Fleming. Mike Jr.. 2011-12-09. Deadline Hollywood. 2017-03-12.
  3. News: Warner Bros Buys Action/Sci-Fi Pitch 'Rise' For Roy Lee & Underground. https://web.archive.org/web/20150303043941/http://deadline.com/2011/12/warner-bros-buys-actionsci-fi-pitch-from-roy-lees-underground-204511/. dead. March 3, 2015. . 2011-12-13. Deadline Hollywood. 2017-03-12. en-US.
  4. News: Fox Acquires 'Outliers' Pitch for Peter Chernin to Produce (Exclusive). The Hollywood Reporter. 2017-03-12. en.
  5. Web site: I Lived Through a Robot Insurrection in Virtual Reality - Motherboard. Motherboard. en-us. 2017-03-12.
  6. Web site: How a Virtual Reality Demo Showed Us the Future of Movies Movie News Movies.com. Movies.com. 2017-03-12.
  7. News: Fox Plans Virtual Reality Experience For ‘Alien: Covenant’. Lieberman. David. 2017-01-03. Deadline Hollywood. 2017-03-12. en-US.
  8. News: Ridley Scott, Fox Innovation Lab Team Up for ‘Alien: Covenant’ Virtual Reality Experience. Roettgers. Janko. 2017-01-03. Variety. 2017-03-12. en-US.
  9. Web site: Alien: Covenant is getting its own virtual reality experience. 2017-01-03. The Verge. 2017-03-12.
  10. News: Alien: Covenant is getting a VR spin-off. Kamen. Matt. WIRED UK. 2017-03-12. en-GB.
  11. News: Alien: Covenant Births New Virtual Reality Experience With In Utero for Oculus - Watch. Erbland. Kate. IndieWire. 2017-05-02.
  12. News: Filmula’s Johnny Lin & Brian Oliver Acquire Rights To ‘Rise’ From Warner Bros. Busch. Anita. 2017-03-04. Deadline Hollywood. 2017-03-12. en-US.
  13. News: Sci-Fi Short Film 'Rise' Getting Feature Adaptation (Exclusive). The Hollywood Reporter. 2017-03-12. en.
  14. News: Anton Yelchin’s Sci-Fi Short ‘Rise’ Being Developed Into Feature-Length Movie. McNary. Dave. 2017-03-04. Variety. 2017-03-12. en-US.

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