Tag: American History X
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‘American History X’ Director Making ‘African History Y’, Starring Djimon Hounsou
American History X director Tony Kaye has another piece of history coming our way – African History Y. Specific details about the film are still under wraps, but we now know the project twill star Djimon Hounsou. Kaye had a notoriously difficult time making American History X, clashing with star Edward Norton as well as…
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‘Civil’: ‘American History X’ Director Tony Kaye’s Next Film is a Civil Rights Drama
Nearly a decade after his last feature film, Tony Kaye is returning to the director’s chair to helm the Civil Rights drama Civil. The British filmmaker, best known for his explosive 1998 debut feature American History X, will be directing a script written by Austin Wright and Adam Knox, which follows two men from opposite…
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‘American History X’ Director Tony Kaye to Helm ‘Civil,’ a Drama About Racial Justice
When it comes to contemporary American auteurs, there are few who have as wild and incendiary a career as Tony Kaye. Known for iconic music videos from artists like Johnny Cash, Roger Waters, and Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kaye broke through in a major way with 1998’s American History X, a provocative film about a…
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Edward Norton Made the Biggest Bet of His Career With ‘Motherless Brooklyn’
Three-time Oscar nominee Edward Norton does not think small. After years of uncredited rewriting and editing room consulting (“American History X”), he directed “Keeping the Faith” in 2000. And over nine years of trying to make an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 novel “Motherless Brooklyn”, which he wrote and produced, he decided to direct himself…