Christophe Gans
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Born in 1960 in Antibes (in the South of France), Christophe Gans
became crazy about movies at an early stage. As a teenager, he made a
lot of samurai and kung fu super-8 films with his friends. At the end
of the seventies, he founded the fanzine "Rhesus Zero" about B-movies.
In 1980, he studied at the French cinema school Idhec and directed a
short movie called "Silver Slime", a tribute to Mario Bava. In 1982, he
founded the magazine "Starfix" and defended directors like David
Cronenberg, Dario Argento, Russel Mulcahy, David Lynch, John Carpenter
or Sergio Leone. He decided to make movies and directed one of the
three parts of _Necronomicon (1994)_ called "The Drowned", then "Crying Freeman" from
the famous Japanese manga. Gans created the video collection "HK"
devoted to Hong Kong movies. He worked for two years on a free
adaptation of Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" but the project
failed. In 1999, he was asked to make Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) ("Brotherhood of the
Wolf") about the Beast of Gévaudan, an unknown animal who killed more
than one hundred people in France at the end of 18th century. The movie
was released in January 2001 and was a great success (more than five
million people saw it).
