John Carpenter is an American director, producer, composer, screenwriter, etc from Carthage, New York. He is known for his work on many films such as The Thing, Halloween, Escape From New York, as well as Big Trouble, Little China. He has won Academy Awards such as the Award for Best Live Action Short Film for the film The Resurrection of Billy Bronco.
In the 1970s, he directed his first major film Dark Star which he cowrote with Dan O’Bannon, the genius behind the story of cult classic Alien and later went on to work with George Lucas on Star Wars.
Carpenter has worked with famous actor Kurt Russell on multiple occasions using him as the main protagonist in many of his films such as the ones listed above, excluding Halloween. Russell also stared in the Carpenter directed television movie, Elvis.
Carpenter has even adapted some of Stephen King’s work such as Christine and Firestarter.
Halloween is known as one of Carpenter’s greatest work and the famous score from the film was composed by Carpenter himself. The budget for the film was $300,000 which in the movie industry doesn’t amount to much but the film ended up grossing over $65 million.
Carpenter doesn’t see much work today due to him being in his 70’s but his son Cody Carpenter is a film score composer who, to bring it full circle, composed some of the music in the 2018 remake of Halloween.
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