American director and screenwriter Ryan Johnson was born in the last month of the outgoing 1973 in the city of Maryland, USA. The future promising filmmaker grew up in the town of San Clemente, Orange County, in sunny California. After successfully graduating from high school, he enters the University of South California and graduates from the School of Motion Picture Arts in 1996.
Company handwriting
From the very beginning of his creative career, Ryan Johnson personally wrote scripts for his directorial works, but this is not the only formal attribute by which his cinema can be called "author". The giftedness of a person who has something to say, as a rule, is easily recognized, regardless of whether the success of the project with a wide audience is deafening or not. The director’s signature style - “authorship within the framework of the genre” (meaning the presence of a personal directorial statement within a certain genre structure) - sooner or later will provide the author with the status of a “cult”. Director Ryan Johnson is an outstanding visionary of our time, for his debut film he received a special prize from the jury of the Sundance Film Festival for "original author's vision."
Debut
The author wrote the script for his debut picture back in 1997, but the search for project financing lasted for a long six years. His incredibly stylish and uniquely non-standard detective "Brick" (IMDb: 7.40) was named by famous film critics as one of the best film debuts of the decade. The tape tells about the murder of a girl and a lone detective who becomes avenger. The trick of the creator was that high school students became the heroes of the canonical story for noir, the viewer was transferred to the school yard and canteen instead of the usual smoke-filled bars and rainy streets. Filming took place in the hometown of the director. Ryan Johnson went to the very school that he showed in his debut film.
Then, in 2008, the author makes the light film “The Bloom Brothers” (IMDb: 6.90) about the adventures of adventurers with the names of Joyce's “Ulysses”. The tape failed at the box office, although this fact is not an indicator of the quality of the picture.
Flirting with genres
The director Ryan Johnson, whose films are familiar to every film fan, in 2012 directed his third work, The Time Loop, in which he continued to boldly flirt with cultural codes and genres. An exceptionally promising director shot the futuristic action movie very elegantly, in which the near future was invented without the burdensome pathos of designer nonsense. In a word, Johnson's future turned out to be extremely plausible, although jet skis soar in the air, and gangsters continue to wear cowboy hats. The plot of the picture exaggerates the theme of criminal movements in time and their consequences that does not lose its relevance. The director, possessing a pronounced postmodern thinking, in his third project completely refuses to close the vicious loop, becoming an erudite collector of annoying stamps. In The Loop of Time, the heroes of the present and future met in a deadly duel almost like Anthony Johnson & Ryan Bader.
For the future
In 2017, the premiere screening of the next picture from the cult saga "Star Wars" is planned. "Episode VIII", in fact, is a continuation of the internal chronology of the epic and acts as a sequel to previous films, simultaneously the second and third trilogies. Even before the production of the episode “The Force Awakens” began, it was planned that Johnson would shoot it, but after the director's chair, JJ Abrams took over. In the eighth episode, the director was Ryan Johnson, Abrams took the place of executive producer. Co-producers were Ram Bergman, Kathleen Kennedy and Lawrence Kazdan, ex-screenwriter of The Force Awakens. Johnson co-wrote the script for the project with George Lucas. Ryan, being very impressed by watching Henry King's paintings “Vertical Take-Off” and “Unsent Letter” by Mikhail Kalatozov, made all the actors to review these films before filming.
The final ninth episode of the Star Wars trilogy will be filmed by Colin Trevorrow, author of Jurassic World, and Johnson will act as a screenwriter.