More recently, I've loved what Alexandre Aja has been doing; «High Tension» was
a huge inspiration for this film.
Not exact matches
Herzog introduced Zhao's
film at the Telluride
Film Festival saying, «He, as you can imagine, is a
huge inspiration for me.
Ripping
huge chunks of
inspiration from the likes of Luc Besson's sci - fi spectacle Lucy, Chan's own kiddie romp The Spy Next Door and... oh, let's go with Roland Emmerich's Universal Soldier, Zhang's hyper - charged, hardly - coherent head - spinner is a star - vehicle concoction
for both old and new generations of Asia's favourite
film stars.
It's both a
huge departure
for the director in that it's the first
film of his directly based on someone else's work (the
inspiration for There Will Be Blood was very different from the final
film), but somehow it also perfectly fits into his career.