Wolfgang Petersen (born 14 March 1941) is a German film director, producer and screenwriter.
His other films include The NeverEnding Story (1984), Enemy Mine (1985), In the Line of Fire (1993), Outbreak (1995), Air Force One (1997), The Perfect Storm (2000), Troy (2004), and Poseidon (2006). ==Early life== Petersen was born on 14 March 1941 in Emden, Germany.
From 1953 to 1960, Petersen attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in Hamburg.
From 1953 to 1960, Petersen attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in Hamburg.
In the 1960s he was directing plays at Hamburg's Ernst Deutsch Theater.
The success of the former helped his Radiant Productions company to signed a deal with Warner Bros. Petersen's $160 million epic film Poseidon, a re-telling of the 1969 Paul Gallico novel The Poseidon Adventure (previously adapted for the 1972 disaster film), was released by Warner Bros.
The success of the former helped his Radiant Productions company to signed a deal with Warner Bros. Petersen's $160 million epic film Poseidon, a re-telling of the 1969 Paul Gallico novel The Poseidon Adventure (previously adapted for the 1972 disaster film), was released by Warner Bros.
In its time, the film was considered so radical that when first broadcast in Germany, the Bavarian network turned off the transmitters rather than broadcast it. His next feature was the World War II epic Das Boot, released in early 1982.
He hit his stride in 1993 with the assassination thriller In the Line of Fire.
The 1997 Petersen blockbuster Air Force One did very well at the box office, with generally positive critical reviews from movie critics.
For both Air Force One and Outbreak, Petersen teamed up with the German cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, who has also worked frequently with director Martin Scorsese. By 1998, Petersen was an established Hollywood director, with the power to both re-release his classic Das Boot in a new director's cut and to helm star-studded action-thrillers.
Petersen pulled out of the running in March 2000. In the 2000s, Petersen continued to direct two summer blockbusters, the films The Perfect Storm (2000) and Troy (2004).
The film performed poorly in the US, barely cracking $60 million in domestic box office receipts by early August, although international sales surpassed $121 million. Although hired to direct the film adaptation of Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card that was scheduled for release in 2008, he later "moved on" from the project.
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