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John Hillcoat (born 14 August 1961) is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and music video director.
John Hillcoat was born on 14 August 1961 in Queensland, Australia. He is a director and producer, known for The Proposition (2005), The Road (2009) and Lawless (2012).
Feb 27, 2016 · John Hillcoat, the most famously brutal Australian director this side of George Miller, lives on Mulholland Drive these days.
John Hillcoat (b. 1960), filmmaker, was born in Brisbane and grew up in Canada, the USA and Europe. Aged eighteen he returned to Australia and studied at the Swinburne Film School in Melbourne. In the 1980s he made music videos for Nick Cave and INXS before co-writing and directing his first feature film Ghosts … of the Civil Dead (1988).
Sep 7, 2021 · Australian director John Hillcoat, who cast Williams in his films The Road (2009) and Triple 9 (2016), says he was “shocked” to hear of the actor’s death, because “I thought he had sort of got through all that”.
When filmmaker John Hillcoat first heard about Cormac McCathy's apocalyptic novel The Road, his heart sank. A bleak and poetic work, the book concerns a man and his young son, and their journey through a land wasted by some unnamed disaster that has completely destroyed life as we know it.
Dec 19, 2023 · Filmmaker John Hillcoat has been confirmed as the director for Blood Meridian, following his successful adaptation of McCarthy's novel The Road, and the movie is expected to closely follow the novel's harrowing story of violence and nihilism in the American Southwest.
