Biography
Roland Emmerich is an American director of German origin, famous for cash blockbusters and fantastic ribbons. He also realized as a screenwriter and producer. Attention presses Emmerich attracts not only due to creative activity. The director is a representative of the LGBT community and is married to Omar de Soto.Childhood and youth
Roland Emmerich was born on November 10, 1955 in Stuttgart. The parents of the boy had a good financial income, as the father owned a Garden Inventory Company. Cinema attracted Roland since childhood. Among the favorite directions, the guy called Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas. It was fascinated by the fantastic films of these director.
After graduating from high school, the young man decided to tie a biography with creative activities and entered the school of television and cinema in Munich. Emmerich became a student of the department of director.
Personal life
Roland Emmerich is an open homosexual. In 2009, he met Omar de Soto. Meeting men occurred in Los Angeles, and since then the couple has not parted. In 2017, their official marriage was held.The public did not expect it, since Roland claimed that he was not a supporter of marriage. Details of his personal life appeared in all media. In the 2020th Emmerich and Soto are still together. Periodically, the director lays out a photo with a spouse in the personal account "Instagram".
The growth of the director is 180 cm, and the weight is unknown.
Films
During the training, the beginning of the director took off the short picture of Franzmann. In 1984, he presented to mentors the graduation work "Flight into the Universe". It was a science fiction project with a million budget. In the same year, his film "The Naoo Ark principle" film was nominated for the main prize of the Berlin Film Festival. Such a great success helped Emmerich to establish his own production company, which he called Centropolis Films.
Already a year later, the tape "Entering contact" came to the screens. Critics accepted her friendly. It motivated Roland to move to Hollywood, who opened great prospects for a talented director. In a short time, he replenished with Kinocarten "Hollywood Monsters" and "Luna-44" filmography, and already in 1992 he removed the "universal soldier", thanks to which a broad audience learned about the director. The film not only brought Emmerich popularity, but also marked the beginning of cooperation with the producer Dina Davlin.
In 1994, the Duet presented the "Star Gate" premiere. The box office fees were phenomenal and made it possible to make large investments in the shooting of the next project - the militant "Independence Day". The main role in the film went to Will Smith. The painting received Oscar for visual effects and marked the new stage of the creative path of Roland Emmerich.
After 4 years, he removed the remake of the movie "Godzilla" of Japanese production. The picture did not discharge the expected success in the audience and critics. But the drama "Patriot" with Chalk Gibson was nominated immediately at 3 Oscar figurines in 2000. In 2004, Emmerich returned to the Blockbaster habitual genre and took the "day after tomorrow" tape. The picture narrated about the cataclysms that swept the planet.
After a short break, the director began working on the film "10,000 years BC", and then followed the premiere of the "2012" picture. The tape again turned out to be popular among the public, confirming that the best Emmerich managed to work in a particular direction - action.
In 2012, the film "Anonymous" film was released on the cinema screens, telling about William Shakespeare. After 2 years, the premiere of the Stonewall tape took place, raising the question of the 1960s gay community of the 1960s. The taught unusual for his creative style of theme, Emmerich returned to the militants and released the "drop of the White House".
Roland Emmerich now
The news in the world of cinema has become Roland's ribbon Emmerich "Midway", the premiere of which took place in 2019. The man performed the producer and film director with Woody Harrelson in the lead role. Now the director remains in demand in Hollywood and continues to work on new movie castors, including a film-catastrophe "Fall of the Moon".Filmography
- 1979 - "Franzmann"
- 1984 - "Flight into the Universe"
- 1990 - "Moon 44"
- 1992 - "Universal Soldier"
- 1998 - "Godzilla"
- 2000 - "Patriot"
- 2004 - "Overavtra"
- 2009 - "2012"
- 2011 - "Anonymous"
- 2015 - Stonewall
- 2019 - "Midway"