Which of the films that Matt Villa's has worked on is based on a short story by Robert A. Heinlein?
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Matt Villa Matt Villa is an Australian film editor, most famous for editing "The Great Gatsby", for which he won Best Editing at the 3rd AACTA Awards alongside Jason Ballantine and Jonathan Redmond. Villa won his second AACTA Award the following year for "Predestination".
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Predestination (film) Predestination is a 2014 Australian science fiction thriller film written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. The film stars Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook and Noah Taylor, and is based on the short story ""—All You Zombies—"" by Robert A. Heinlein.
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Arrival (film) Arrival is a 2016 American science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Eric Heisserer, based on the 1998 short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. It stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker, and follows linguist Louise Banks, who is enlisted by the U.S. Army to help translate communications from one of several extraterrestrial craft that have appeared across the world. She must find out why they have arrived on Earth before tensions lead into war. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2016, and was released in the United States on November 11, 2016, in IMAX by Paramount Pictures.
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Unaccompanied Sonata "Unaccompanied Sonata" is a short story by American writer Orson Scott Card, first published in the March, 1979 issue of "Omni" magazine. It appears in his short story collections "Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories" and "Maps in a Mirror". It was nominated in 1979 for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story and in 1980 for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
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Matt Reeves Matthew George "Matt" Reeves (born April 27, 1966) is an American screenwriter, director and producer. Reeves began his career as a screenwriter for the films "" (1995) and "The Pallbearer" (1996), the latter of which marked his feature-length directorial debut. He then transitioned into television as a director and co-creator of the drama series "Felicity" (1998–2002) alongside J.J. Abrams. Reeves has since directed the found-footage horror film "Cloverfield" (2008), the romantic horror film "Let Me In" (2010), and the science fiction sequels "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" (2014) and "War for the Planet of the Apes" (2017). In February 2017, Warner Bros. announced that Reeves would direct "The Batman", to be set in the DC Extended Universe starring Ben Affleck as the titular character.
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The Lady of Death The Lady of Death (Spanish:Dama de la muerte) is a 1946 Chilean thriller film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen for Chile Films S.A. and starring Carlos Cores, Judith Sulian and Guillermo Battaglia. The film is based on the short story "The Suicide Club" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Space Cadet Space Cadet is a 1948 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about Matt Dodson, who joins the Space Patrol to help preserve peace in the Solar System. The story translates the standard military academy story into outer space: a boy from Iowa goes to officer school, sees action and adventure, shoulders responsibilities far beyond his experience, and becomes a man. It was published as the second of the series of Heinlein juveniles and inspired the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet media empire, including the 1950s television series and radio show which made "Space Cadet" a household phrase whose meaning later shifted in popular culture.
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Flesh and Sand Flesh and Sand (Spanish: Carne y arena ) is a 2017 American short virtual reality project directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, plunging "viewers into the harsh life of an immigrant". It premiered at the Virtual Reality section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and was later featured at the Prada Foundation in Milan, attracting significant international attention both for its highly innovative character and for its strong political message. The project is the result of a four years work with Mexican immigrants to the U.S.
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Soylent Green Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston and Leigh Taylor-Young. Edward G. Robinson appears in his final film. Loosely based on the 1966 science fiction novel "Make Room! Make Room!" by Harry Harrison, it combines both police procedural and science fiction genres; the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman and a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity due to the greenhouse effect, resulting in suffering from pollution, poverty, overpopulation, euthanasia and depleted resources.
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Hellraiser: Hellworld Hellraiser: Hellworld (also known as Hellraiser VIII: Hellworld) is a 2005 horror film directed by Rick Bota. It is the eighth installment in "Hellraiser" series. The "Hellworld" script is based on a short story called "Dark Can't Breathe" by Joel Soisson. "Hellraiser: Hellworld" was released straight to DVD in the United States on September 6, 2005, after a handful of minor film festival and private screenings.
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Direct Descent Direct Descent (1980) is a short science fiction novel by Frank Herbert. It was based on the short story "Pack Rat Planet" published in 1954 in "Astounding Science-Fiction".
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The Blue Villa The Blue Villa (French title: Un bruit qui rend fou, "A noise that renders one crazy") is a 1995 French crime thriller film, directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet and starring Fred Ward. It was entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Casey's Shadow Casey's Shadow is a 1978 drama Metrocolor film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Walter Matthau. The film was based on the short story "Ruidoso" (published 1974) by John McPhee. Much of the exterior shots were done in the town of Opelousas, LA (20 miles north of Lafayette, LA).
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The Nostalgist The Nostalgist is a 2014 science fiction short film, written and directed by Giacomo Cimini, based on the short story "The Nostalgist" by Daniel H. Wilson. It was produced by Giacomo Cimini, Tommaso Colognese and Pietro Greppi for Wonder Room Productions. It stars Lambert Wilson as the father and Samuel Joslin as the son. The short film was filmed in London and explores the themes of loss, nostalgia and robotics.
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Pandane to Tamago Hime Pandane to Tamago Hime (パン種とタマゴ姫 , lit. "Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess") is a 2010 Japanese animated fantasy short film by Hayao Miyazaki made for the Studio Ghibli Museum. It premiered at the museum on November 20, 2010. Miyazaki conceived the idea for the film from the painting "The Harvesters" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
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Nightbreed Nightbreed (also Night Breed on publicity material, or Clive Barker's Nightbreed) is a 1990 American dark fantasy horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his 1988 novella "Cabal", and starring Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Hugh Quarshie, and Doug Bradley. The film features an unstable mental patient who is falsely led to believe by his doctor that he is a serial killer. Tracked down by the police, his doctor, and his girlfriend Lori, Boone eventually finds refuge in an abandoned cemetery called Midian among a "tribe" of monsters and outcasts known as the "Nightbreed" where they hide from humanity.
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When the Nines Roll Over When the Nines Roll Over (and Other Stories) is the 2004 novel by David Benioff. A short film adaptation of the first of the seven total stories, for which Benioff wrote the screenplay, directed and produced was released in 2005.
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Waterclap "Waterclap" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story was written at the request of a movie company and was intended to serve as the basis of a film treatment. However, the author disliked the proposed characters and storyline and deliberately set out to write a story that he hoped would be rejected. The story was indeed rejected by the studio and was later published in the May 1970 issue of "If" and reprinted in the 1976 collection "The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories".
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Pirates of Treasure Island Pirates of Treasure Island is a 2006 American comedy-drama film produced by The Asylum, loosely adaptated from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Treasure Island".
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The Last Mimzy The Last Mimzy is a 2007 American science fiction adventure drama film directed by Robert Shaye and loosely adapted from the 1943 science fiction short story "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett (the pseudonym of husband and wife team Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore). The film features Timothy Hutton, Joely Richardson, Rainn Wilson, Kathryn Hahn, Michael Clarke Duncan, and introducing Rhiannon Leigh Wryn as seven-year-old Emma Wilder and Chris O’Neil as ten-year-old Noah.
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Erik Matti Erik Charles Matti (born 1970) is a Filipino filmmaker. He rose to prominence when his 1996 film "Magic Temple" became a box office success, winning numerous awards including "Best Screenplay" (shared with Peque Gallaga and Lore Reyes) at the 1996 Metro Manila Film Festival. He became one of the Philippines' lead directors after the critical success of his later films "On the Job" and "Honor Thy Father", which earned him nominations for Best Director in the Gawad Urian Awards and Film Academy of the Philippines Awards, winning the latter.
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Robert A. Heinlein bibliography The science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) was productive during a writing career that spanned the last 49 years of his life; the Robert A. Heinlein bibliography includes 32 novels, 59 short stories and 16 collections published during his life. Four films, two TV series, several episodes of a radio series, and a board game derive more or less directly from his work. He wrote a screenplay for one of the films. Heinlein edited an anthology of other writers' SF short stories.