September 26, 2020
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GORE VERBINSKI
Gore Verbinski, one
of American cinema's most inventive directors who was a punk-rock guitarist as
a teenager and had to sell his guitar to buy his first camera is now the
director of Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man's Chest (2006) which made the
industry record for the highest opening weekend of all time ($135,600,000) and
grossed over $1 billion dollars worldwide.
He was born Gregor
Verbinski on March 16, 1964, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to Laurette Ann (McGovern)
and Victor Vincent Verbinski, a nuclear physicist who worked at the Oak Ridge
Lab. His paternal grandparents were Polish. In 1967, the family moved to
California and young Gregor grew up near San Diego. His biggest influences as
a kid were Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Black Sabbath's Master of Reality.
He started his professional career as a guitarist for punk-rock bands, such as
The Daredevils and The Little Kings, and also made his first films together
with friends. After having developed a passion for filmmaking, he sold his guitar
to buy a Super-8mm camera. Then Verbinski attended the prestigious UCLA Film
School, from which he graduated in 1987 with his BFA in Film. His first
professional directing jobs were music videos for alternative bands, such as
L7, Bad Religion, and Monster Magnet. Then he moved to advertise and directed
commercials for Nike, Canon, Skittles, United Airlines, and Coca-Cola. In 1993
he created the renowned Budweiser advertising campaign featuring croaking
frogs, for which he was awarded the advertising Silver Lion at Cannes and also
received four Clio Awards.
Verbinski
made his feature directorial debut with Musehunt (1997), a remarkably
visual cartoonish family comedy. His next effort, The Mexican (2001), came to a modest result. However, Verbinski
bounced back with a hit thriller The Ring (2002),
grossing over $230 million dollars worldwide. His biggest directorial success
came with the Disney theme park ride based Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003),
with a brilliant acting ensemble, grossing over $650 million dollars, and
bringing five Oscar nominations and many other awards and nominations. Disney
ordered two more films which Verbinski shot one after another on location in
the Caribbean islands, for which he had to endure both tetanus and typhoid
immunization shots. After having survived several hurricanes, dealing with sick
and injured actors, and troubleshooting after numerous technical difficulties
of the epic-scale project, Verbinski delivered. He employed the same stellar
cast in the sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and the third installment of the 'Pirates'
franchise Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007).
Gore Verbinski does not like publicity. He has
been enjoying happy family life with his wife and his two sons. He resides
with his family in Los Angeles, California.
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