FILMOGRAPHY

2003] Visitors [director & producer]
2002] "Flatland"
1999] "The Lost World"
1999] The Lost World (TV)
1997] One Way Ticket (TV)
1996] Brilliant Lies [director, producer & co-writer]
1995] Hotel Sorrento [director, producer & co-writer]
1994] Running Delilah (TV)
1991] F/X2
1987] "Beauty and the Beast" [directed pilot episode]
1986] Link [director & producer]
1984] Cloak & Dagger
1983] Psycho II
1981] Roadgames [director & producer]
1980] The Blue Lagoon [producer]
1978] Patrick [director & producer]
1976] Fantasm
1975] The True Story of Eskimo Nell [director, producer & co-writer]
1973] Loveland
1964] "Homicide"

LINKS

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Richard Franklin's Profile of John Ford
IMDB

Richard Franklin

Born July 15, 1948 Melbourne, Australia

Studied at: the University of Southern California (Cinema Major) 1969 - MA equiv & from 1954 to 1965 Haileybury College - Primary and Secondary

In 1974 Richard wrote, produced & directed a short film for the Victorian Tourist Commission called 'Convention Checkout'.

Directed a handful of Beastmaster episodes.

Richard has directed over 30 commercials including for Uncle Toby's, the Army Reserve, Pioneer, Dunlop, Ford & many more.

Australian film critic David Stratton on Richard:
"Richard Franklin is rare among Australian directors in that he studied film in Hollywood; Alfred Hitchcock was one of his tutors, and the two became friends - it was Franklin who directed the first, and best, of the Psycho sequels."

Richard on casting Radha Mitchell in 'Visitors':
“I visited Radha on the set of Pitch Black and thought she was doing a great job. We’d met in Cannes a few years earlier when I was there for Hotel Sorrento and she was promoting Love and Other Catastrophes. She struck me then as having a wonderful, innocent quality. She’s very talented and the camera loves her, so when her name came up I thought it would be great to work with her.”

Richard on working in confined spaces on 'Visitors':
“I think containment is a great asset. At the time Hitchcock was making Lifeboat, he said that it would be possible to make a thriller that was set in a wardrobe. You just had to have the right ingredients in the wardrobe and establish the character in the right way before you put them there - as he did with Janet Leigh in Psycho. I asked Everett if he could write something for me that took place in one room like Patrick. ‘Could it be on a boat?’ he asked. I couldn’t see why not and that’s how we started.”

Actor Ray Barrett [Visitors, Hotel Sorrento] on Richard:
“He sees the end result. He makes you feel terribly comfortable when you walk onto a set because you know that somebody is in charge. I’ve worked with people who give no direction, hence you feel helpless because they’re ‘not a Richard Franklin.’ You walk onto Richard’s set and he’ll say, ‘this is what I want.’ But at the same time he’ll ask how you feel and maybe glean a little bit that way within the context.”

Quentin Taratino on Richard:
"I am a huge fan of Richard Franklin and Roadgames. Did you see the little Patrick reference there [in Kill Bill Volume 1] when the comatose Bride spits? That's Patrick."

Australian film critic David Stratton on 'Visitors':
"Visitors marks the reunion of Franklin and screenwriter Everett DeRoche, who collaborated years ago on now classic Aussie thrillers, Patrick and Road Games, and they've tackled a Hitchcockian idea inspired by Lifeboat: almost all of the action is confined to the ship itself, which has proved a challenge for all concerned. Franklin's skills as a director are amply demonstrated in the way he uses the limited space to highly charged claustrophobic effect, and he's backed by some excellent talents in cinematographer Ellery Ryan and designer Stewart Burnside; Radha Mitchell is excellent, too, as the heroine whose 'visitors' may be ghosts or may be the result of her mind giving way under the strain of her lonely voyage. Some elements in this ambitious film don't work as well as others, and the conclusion's a bit of a disappointment, but Visitors is worth a look if you're interested in something genuinely original and unusual, and deserves to be seen on the cinema screen."

Richard on the visitors in 'Visitors':
“I told Everett that if we were going to make a film called Visitors, I wanted lots of them! Hence we have all kinds, from very real pirates and a stowaway, to quite surreal manifestations of Georgia’s suicidal mother Carolyn – and many variations in between.”