In the independent filmmaking world, Albert Pyun is a little more independent than most. Having made his directorial debut with "The Sword and the Sorcerer" in 1982 after serving an apprenticeship under Akira Kurosawa, Pyun carved out a unique niche as a director of low-budget, high-concept genre films starring casts slightly past their prime.
Some will think that's a charitable description for Pyun, who has been derided as "the new Ed Wood," but consider that his pairings of rap stars and action stars (beginning with the 1997 Ice-t/Christopher Lambert team-up "Mean Guns") begat the trend Joel Silver popularized in the early naughts, and he was once just two weeks shy of directing "Spider-Man" (which he'll explain below).
These days, Pyun's movies rarely see the inside of a theater, but that's made him a pioneer in another arena: streaming video-on-demand. With his latest film, "Tales of an Ancient Empire," a spiritual "not...
Some will think that's a charitable description for Pyun, who has been derided as "the new Ed Wood," but consider that his pairings of rap stars and action stars (beginning with the 1997 Ice-t/Christopher Lambert team-up "Mean Guns") begat the trend Joel Silver popularized in the early naughts, and he was once just two weeks shy of directing "Spider-Man" (which he'll explain below).
These days, Pyun's movies rarely see the inside of a theater, but that's made him a pioneer in another arena: streaming video-on-demand. With his latest film, "Tales of an Ancient Empire," a spiritual "not...
- 6/22/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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