A Director’s Commentary
In 1995, I saw a photograph in the Los Angeles Times of a plexiglass box on...
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ACCLAIMED WRITER, producer, & director
Christian Gudegast
Early career
Biography
CHRISTIAN GUDEGAST (WRITER-DIRECTOR) graduated Magna Cum Laude from UCLA film school. He began his career as a screenwriter, selling his first script, Black Ocean, to Oliver Stone. Starting his career as a writer on Jerry Bruckheimer’s first TV show, “Soldier of Fortune, Inc.”, Gudegast wrote A Man Apart, The Rundown, and London Has Fallen, among others, and worked as one of Hollywood’s most sought-after script doctors for years.
RAW AND REAL
From Sequestro to Den of Thieves
In 2009, he produced the award-winning documentary Sequestro about kidnapping in Sao Paolo, and directed, shot, and edited the documentary Shotcaller.
Gudegast also produced and directed Den of Thieves and Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, and will next be writing and directing Mafia X for Thunder Road.
DEPTH OF FIELD
Inside the world of Christian Gudegast
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