David Karlak

David Karlak is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California.{{Cite web|url=http://www.davidkarlak.com/about/|title=// about|website=DAVID KARLAK|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-12}}{{Self-published source|date=March 2017}} In 2010 Karlak directed the short film The Candidate that went on to make the Viewfinder List in 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2011/12/2011-viewfinder-cites-best-and-brightest-short-video-and-blurb-helmers-202933/|title=Best 2011 Short Films, Ads, Music Videos?|last= Fleming|first=Mike Jr.|date=2011-12-09|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=2017-03-12}} Following The Candidate, Karlak sold an original sci-fi pitch to Warner Brothers titled Rise with Roy Lee producing,{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2011/12/warner-bros-buys-actionsci-fi-pitch-from-roy-lees-underground-204511/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150303043941/http://deadline.com/2011/12/warner-bros-buys-actionsci-fi-pitch-from-roy-lees-underground-204511/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 3, 2015|title=Warner Bros Buys Action/Sci-Fi Pitch 'Rise' For Roy Lee & Underground|author=|date=2011-12-13|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=2017-03-12|language=en-US}} and then a second original pitch titled Outliers to 20th Century Fox with Peter Chernin producing.{{Cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/fox-acquires-outliers-pitch-peter-571737|title=Fox Acquires 'Outliers' Pitch for Peter Chernin to Produce (Exclusive)|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=2017-03-12|language=en}} Karlak is attached to direct both films. In recent years, Karlak has been exploring the use of virtual reality to tell narratives, having directed a virtual reality experience set in the world of Rise{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-visited-a-robot-insurrection-in-virtual-reality/|title=I Lived Through a Robot Insurrection in Virtual Reality - Motherboard|website=Motherboard|language=en-us|access-date=2017-03-12}} which premiered it at the Storyscapes series at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014.{{Cite web|url=http://www.movies.com/movie-news/tribeca-storyscapes-2014/15567|title=How a Virtual Reality Demo Showed Us the Future of Movies {{!}} Movie News {{!}} Movies.com|website=Movies.com|access-date=2017-03-12}}

Karlak most recently has been working with 20th Century Fox to direct two virtual reality experiences for Ridley Scott's film Alien: Covenant.{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2017/01/fox-plans-virtual-reality-experience-alien-covenant-1201877798/|title=Fox Plans Virtual Reality Experience For ‘Alien: Covenant’|last=Lieberman|first=David|date=2017-01-03|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=2017-03-12|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/alien-covenant-vr-experience-1201951388/|title=Ridley Scott, Fox Innovation Lab Team Up for ‘Alien: Covenant’ Virtual Reality Experience|last=Roettgers|first=Janko|date=2017-01-03|work=Variety|access-date=2017-03-12|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/3/14155368/alien-covenant-virtual-reality-experience-ridley-scott|title=Alien: Covenant is getting its own virtual reality experience|date=2017-01-03|website=The Verge|access-date=2017-03-12}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/alien-covenant-vr-game|title=Alien: Covenant is getting a VR spin-off|last=Kamen|first=Matt|work=WIRED UK|access-date=2017-03-12|language=en-GB}} The first experience, Alien: Covenant In Utero premiered April 26, 2017 for Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR.{{Cite news|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2017/04/alien-covenant-virtual-reality-in-utero-oculus-1201808555/|title=Alien: Covenant Births New Virtual Reality Experience With In Utero for Oculus - Watch|last=Erbland|first=Kate|work=IndieWire|access-date=2017-05-02}}

On March 3, 2017, Deadline Hollywood reported that Filmula's Johnny Lin and Cross Creek's Brian Oliver acquired the feature film rights to Rise from Warner Brothers with Karlak attached to direct.{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2017/03/rise-movie-filmula-johnny-lin-brian-oliver-acquire-rights-1202036177/|title=Filmula’s Johnny Lin & Brian Oliver Acquire Rights To ‘Rise’ From Warner Bros|last=Busch|first=Anita|date=2017-03-04|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=2017-03-12|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/sci-fi-short-film-rise-getting-feature-adaptation-983089|title=Sci-Fi Short Film 'Rise' Getting Feature Adaptation (Exclusive)|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=2017-03-12|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/anton-yelchin-rise-short-feature-movie-1202001998/|title=Anton Yelchin’s Sci-Fi Short ‘Rise’ Being Developed Into Feature-Length Movie|last=McNary|first=Dave|date=2017-03-04|work=Variety|access-date=2017-03-12|language=en-US}} Rise is about a dystopian future where robots are targeted for elimination after they develop emotional symmetry to humans and a revolutionary war for their survival begins. Anton Yelchin starred in the short, which was based on a screenplay Karlak penned with writers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton (the Saw series).

• The Candidate (short, 2011)
• Rise (virtual reality experience, 2014)
• Rise (short, 2016)
• Alien: Covenant In Utero (virtual reality experience, 2017)

• Rise (story by, 2018)

• [http://www.davidkarlak.com Official website]
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