John Harrison(I)
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
John Harrison began his career directing rock videos and working as 1st
Asst. Director for famed horror
director,George A. Romero
(Night of the Living Dead (1968)/Creepshow (1982)).
Harrison wrote and directed multiple episodes of Romero's classic TV
series,Tales from the Darkside (1983)m],
before helming
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990),
for Paramount Pictures, which won Harrison the Grand Prix du Festival
at Avoriaz, France. Harrison co-wrote the animated
feature,Dinosaur (2000), for Disney. He
also wrote the adaptation of
Clive Barker's fantasy novels,
"Abarat", also for Disney. In the Fall of
'06, Harrison reunited with mentor George Romero
to produce Romero's film,
Diary of the Dead (2007). His
action suspense thriller,
Blank Slate (2008), for
producer Dean Devlin, which Harrison wrote
and directed, aired as a twenty-episode micro-series on TNT in the Fall
of 2008. Clive Barker's
Book of Blood (2009), which he
wrote and directed, was released in the Fall 2009. His 6-hour
miniseries adaptation of
Frank Herbert's monumental
bestseller, Dune (2000), which he
directed, was an Emmy Award-winning success in the U.S., then
internationally, both in its broadcast premieres and subsequently in
home video. Harrison's
Children of Dune (2003),
another 6-hour miniseries encompassing the next two novels of
Frank Herbert's mythic adventure
series which he wrote and co-produced, was also an Emmy winner for the
Sci-Fi Channel.
