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Rocky Morton (born 1955) is an English director. He is the co-creator of the TV series Max Headroom and co-director of the 1993 Hollywood Pictures film Super Mario Bros. Various music videos by Tom Tom Club, Talking Heads, Gravity Kills, Orgy, George Harrison and Miles Davis are credited to Morton.
Rocky Morton was born in 1955 in England, UK. He is a director and actor, known for Super Mario Bros. (1993), D.O.A. (1988) and The M Word (2004). He was previously married to Annabel Jankel.
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Jun 7, 2016 · Rocky Morton, one of the directors of the 1993 film Super Mario Bros., reveals the challenges and controversies of making the movie. He talks about the script changes, the cast, the sets, and the difficulties of working with Dennis Hopper.
Rocky Morton is a British-born director who has created acclaimed music videos, TV shows and feature films. He is known for his work with The Talking Heads, Max Headroom, The Wall and more.
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Roland Joffé (producer): I thought there was something inside that story that could be very interesting. I went and negotiated on my own with Nintendo. I think it took me a week staying in a ryokan in Japan and going every day with different kinds of tea, which I presented to the secretary of the then-owner of Nintendo. He said to me, “Lots of big ...
Fiona Shaw: The genius of the film was that the design was fantastic. It was shot in this big huge cement factory. Probably illegal now. It meant you could crash things and build a city. David L. Snyder (production designer):Because the steel concrete framework was there, we would do basically what they do in England: build scaffolding and hang the...
Roland Joffé: It was a dangerous shoot. There were an enormous number of stunts and it was a tough environment. Fiona Shaw: The real stunts were done by Hell’s Angels and the guys that could drive those futuristic cars. Fiona Shaw: The animal people said, “Would you mind taking the snake [that Lena holds in scenes] home?” I was asked to keep the sn...
Roland Joffé: This is a story of a hothouse of creativity, emotion, danger, imagination, all at white-hot heat, and it would be odd to expect that to not have its own extraordinary set of tensions. It was like going to war. Fiona Shaw: Bob used to get special whiskey sent from England — single malts — and we would drink those copiously in his carav...
Rocky Morton: There’s a scene missing, that the producers cut out. The scene was right at the very very end when the Mario brothers were back in Brooklyn. And there’s a knock-knock-knock on the door, and it’s two executives from Japan from Nintendo. They’ve come to buy this story — the life story of the Mario brothers — because they want to use it ...
Co-director Rocky Morton reveals the behind-the-scenes chaos of the first live-action video game movie. He talks about the original script, the actors' revolt, the deleted ending and the legacy of the film.
Apr 7, 2023 · To Rocky Morton, who directed the movie with Annabel Jankel, that was the point. Morton and Jankel were British music video filmmakers who also had been behind the creation of the...
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Rocky Morton was born in 1955 in England, UK. He is a director and actor, known for Super Mario Bros. (1993), D.O.A. (1988) and The M Word (2004). He was previously married to Annabel Jankel.
