David Slade
{{short description|British film and television director}}
{{for|the co-owner of A-League club Western Sydney Wanderers|David Slade (businessman)}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
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| birth_name = David Aldrin Slade
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| birth_place = United Kingdom
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| occupation = Actor, director
| years_active = 1994–present
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David Aldrin Slade (born 26 September 1969) is an English film and television director and actor. His works include the films Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Slade is also a director for television, directing episodes for Breaking Bad, Awake, Hannibal, Crossbones, Powers, American Gods and Black Mirror. Before he was a film director, Slade was a director of commercials and music videos.
Career
File:David slade eclipse premiere.jpg
He started his career making amateur music videos for local bands in the south of England. He had his films processed by an elderly woman who developed super 8 films for cheap in her bathtub. His first professional job was directing a commercial for the video game Silent Hill, for the English market.{{cite web|url=http://www.myfirstshoot.com/interview/david-slade/|title=David Slade - My First Shoot|website=Myfirstshoot.com|access-date=1 November 2017}} His first feature film, Hard Candy, was released in 2005 by Lions Gate Entertainment, who purchased the independent movie at the Sundance Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20562|title=Press Conference: Interviews with the Cast & Crew of 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'|date=14 June 2010|publisher=BloodyDisgusting}} He went on to direct the vampire film 30 Days of Night in 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/36238/twilight-saga-eclipse-gets-a-new-editor-muse-dropped-soundtrack|title=Twilight Saga: Eclipse Gets a New Editor; Muse Dropped from Soundtrack|date=9 August 2012|publisher=DreadCentral}} Slade directed The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,{{cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/37949/david-slade-talks-twilight-saga-eclipse-new-tv-spot-something-new|title=David Slade Talks Twilight Saga: Eclipse; New TV Spot "Something New"|date=10 June 2010|publisher=DreadCentral}} the third film in the Twilight film series.{{cite press release |title=David Slade to Direct Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse |publisher=Summit Entertainment |date=22 April 2009 |url=http://www.summit-ent.com/news.php?news_id=111 |access-date=22 April 2009 }}
Personal life
Slade listed his favourite films as Performance, Wings of Desire, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Possession.{{cite tweet|user=DAVID_A_SLADE|author=DAVID A SLADE|number=176587265768824832|date=5 March 2012|title=ALL TIME top 5 "PERFORMANCE"Roeg/Cammell. "WINGS OF DESIRE" Wim Wenders. "2001/Clockwork Orange" Kubrick "POSSESSION" Zulawski No surprises}} He also attributes Performance as his main inspiration for becoming a film director.{{cite tweet|user=DAVID_A_SLADE|author=DAVID A SLADE|number=176602128343777283|date=5 March 2012|title=@AussieBecka Nic Roeg/Donald Cammell's "Performance".}}
Filmography
=Feature films=
- Hard Candy (2005)
- 30 Days of Night (2007)
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
- Nightmare Cinema (2018) (segment: This Way to Egress)
- Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
- Dark Harvest (2023)
=Music videos=
- Scheer's "Wish You Were Dead"
- Beaumont Hannant's "Utuba"
- DJ Hooligan's "Rave Nation"
- Speedy J's "Symmetry" (animated video piece titled "Corpus Porpoise Posthumous Non Polhemus")
- EMF's "Bleeding You Dry"
- Aphex Twin's "Donkey Rhubarb"
- Collapsed Lung's "Eat My Goal"
- LFO's "Tied Up"
- C. J. Bolland's "Sugar Is Sweeter"
- Babybird's "If You'll Be Mine"
- DJ Rap's "Good to Be Alive" (original UK version)
- 3 Colours Red's "Beautiful Day"
- Apollo 440's "Stop the Rock"
- Stone Temple Pilots' "Sour Girl"
- OPM's "Heaven Is a Halfpipe"
- Maxim's "Carmen Queasy"
- P.O.D.'s "School of Hard Knocks"
- Stereophonics' "Mr. Writer"
- Muse's "New Born"
- Muse's "Bliss"
- Muse's "Hyper Music"
- Muse's "Feeling Good"
- Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girl"
- David Gray's "This Year's Love"
- System of a Down's "Aerials"
- The Music's "Take the Long Road and Walk It"
- Rob Dougan's "Clubbed to Death"
- Starsailor's "Poor Misguided Fool"
- AFI's "Girl's Not Grey"
- Turin Brakes' "Pain Killer"
- The Killers' "Goodnight, Travel Well" for UNICEF in conjunction with MTV EXIT
=Short films=
- I Smell Quality (1994)
- Do Geese See God? (2004)
- MEATDOG: What's Fer Dinner (2008){{cite web|publisher=Microsoft|date=23 July 2008|access-date=14 August 2008|title=So Funny, It's Scary: Hollywood's Top Horror Directors to Bring Original Comedy Pilots to Xbox 360 This Fall|url=http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/jul08/07-23ComicConXboxLivePR.mspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905045847/http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/jul08/07-23ComicConXboxLivePR.mspx|archive-date=5 September 2008}}
=Television series=
- Breaking Bad
- Episode 4.03 – "Open House"
- Awake
- Episode 1.01 – "Pilot"
- Hannibal
- Episode 1.01 – "Apéritif"
- Episode 1.03 – "Potage"
- Episode 1.13 – "Savoureux"
- Episode 2.11 – "Kō No Mono"
- Episode 2.13 – "Mizumono"
- Crossbones
- Episode 1.01 – "The Devil's Dominion"
- Powers
- Episode 1.01 – "Pilot"
- Episode 1.02 – "Like a Power"
- American Gods
- Episode 1.01 – "The Bone Orchard"
- Episode 1.02 – "The Secret of Spoons"
- Episode 1.03 – "Head Full of Snow"
- Black Mirror
- Episode 4.05 – "Metalhead"
- Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
- Episode 7.04 – "Plaything"
- Barkskins
- Episode 1.01 "New France"
- Episode 1.02 "The Turtle King"
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1720541}}
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Category:Alumni of Sheffield Hallam University
Category:British film directors
Category:British music video directors