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{{short description|British film and television director}}
'''David Slade''' (born September 26, 1969) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[film director]] who began his career making [[music videos]]. His work includes videos for artists such as [[Aphex Twin]] ("[[Donkey Rhubarb (EP)|Donkey Rhubarb]]"), [[Rob Dougan]] ("[[Clubbed To Death]]"), [[Stone Temple Pilots]] ("[[Sour Girl]]"), [[Tori Amos]] ("[[Strange Little Girl"]]), as well as four videos for [[Muse (band)|Muse]] ("Hypermusic," "Feeling Good," "Bliss" and "Newborn").
{{for|the co-owner of A-League club Western Sydney Wanderers|David Slade (businessman)}}
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'''David Aldrin Slade''' (born 26 September 1969) is a British film and television director and actor. His works include the films ''[[Hard Candy (film)|Hard Candy]]'', ''[[30 Days of Night (film)|30 Days of Night]]'' and ''[[The Twilight Saga: Eclipse]]''. Slade is also a director for television, directing episodes for ''[[Breaking Bad]]'', ''[[Awake (TV series)|Awake]]'', ''[[Hannibal (TV series)|Hannibal]]'', ''[[Crossbones (TV series)|Crossbones]]'', ''[[Powers (American TV series)|Powers]]'', ''[[American Gods (TV series)|American Gods]]'' and ''[[Black Mirror]]''. Before he was a film director, Slade was a director of commercials and music videos.
His first [[feature film]] ''[[Hard Candy (film)|Hard Candy]]'' was released in 2005 by Lions Gate Films who purchased the Independent movie at the [[Sundance Film Festival]]. His second feature project is the vampire horror "[[30 Days of Night]]" which is currently in production for [[Columbia Pictures]].

==Life and career==
[[File:David slade eclipse premiere.jpg|thumb|Slade at the London premiere of ''The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'', 2010]]
He started his career making amateur music videos for local bands in the south of [[England]]. He had his films processed by an elderly woman who developed super 8 films for cheap in her bathtub. His first professional job was directing a commercial for the video game ''[[Silent Hill (video game)|Silent Hill]]'', for the English market.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myfirstshoot.com/interview/david-slade/|title=David Slade - My First Shoot|website=Myfirstshoot.com|access-date=1 November 2017}}</ref> His first feature film, ''[[Hard Candy (film)|Hard Candy]]'', was released in 2005 by [[Lions Gate Entertainment]], who purchased the independent movie at the [[Sundance Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20562|title=Press Conference: Interviews with the Cast & Crew of 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'|date=14 June 2010|publisher=BloodyDisgusting}}</ref> He went on to direct the vampire film ''[[30 Days of Night (film)|30 Days of Night]]'' in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/36238/twilight-saga-eclipse-gets-a-new-editor-muse-dropped-soundtrack|title=Twilight Saga: Eclipse Gets a New Editor; Muse Dropped from Soundtrack|date=9 August 2012|publisher=DreadCentral}}</ref> Slade directed ''[[The Twilight Saga: Eclipse]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/37949/david-slade-talks-twilight-saga-eclipse-new-tv-spot-something-new|title=David Slade Talks Twilight Saga: Eclipse; New TV Spot "Something New"|date=10 June 2010|publisher=DreadCentral}}</ref> the third film in the ''Twilight'' film series.<ref name=Slade>{{cite press release |title=David Slade to Direct Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse |publisher=[[Summit Entertainment]] |date=22 April 2009 |url=http://www.summit-ent.com/news.php?news_id=111 |access-date=22 April 2009 }}</ref>

In a [[Twitter]] post, Slade listed his favorite films as ''[[Performance (film)|Performance]]'', ''[[Wings of Desire]]'', ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]'', and ''[[Possession (1981 film)|Possession]]''.<ref>{{cite tweet|user=DAVID_A_SLADE|author=DAVID A SLADE|number=176587265768824832|date=5 March 2012|title=ALL TIME top 5 "PERFORMANCE"Roeg/Cammell. "WINGS OF DESIRE" Wim Wenders. "2001/Clockwork Orange" Kubrick "POSSESSION" Zulawski No surprises}}</ref> Slade also attributes ''Performance'' as his main inspiration for becoming a film director.<ref>{{cite tweet|user=DAVID_A_SLADE|author=DAVID A SLADE|number=176602128343777283|date=5 March 2012|title=@AussieBecka Nic Roeg/Donald Cammell's "Performance".}}</ref>

==Filmography==
===Feature films===
* ''[[Hard Candy (film)|Hard Candy]]'' (2005)
* ''[[30 Days of Night (film)|30 Days of Night]]'' (2007)
* ''[[The Twilight Saga: Eclipse]]'' (2010)
* ''[[Nightmare Cinema]]'' (2018) (segment: ''This Way to Egress'')
* ''[[Black Mirror: Bandersnatch]]'' (2018)
* ''[[Dark Harvest (2023 film)|Dark Harvest]]'' (2023)

===Music videos===
* [[Scheer (band)|Scheer]]'s "Wish You Were Dead"
* [[Beaumont Hannant]]'s "Utuba"
* [[Da Hool|DJ Hooligan]]'s "Rave Nation"
* [[Speedy J]]'s "Symmetry" (animated video piece titled "Corpus Porpoise Posthumous Non Polhemus")
* [[EMF (band)|EMF]]'s "Bleeding You Dry"
* [[Aphex Twin]]'s "[[Donkey Rhubarb (EP)|Donkey Rhubarb]]"
* [[Collapsed Lung (band)|Collapsed Lung]]'s "Eat My Goal"
* [[LFO (British band)|LFO]]'s "Tied Up"
* [[C. J. Bolland]]'s "Sugar Is Sweeter"
* [[Babybird]]'s "If You'll Be Mine"
* [[DJ Rap]]'s "Good to Be Alive" (original UK version)
* [[3 Colours Red]]'s "[[Beautiful Day (3 Colours Red song)|Beautiful Day]]"
* [[Apollo 440]]'s "[[Stop the Rock]]"
* [[Stone Temple Pilots]]' "[[Sour Girl]]"
* [[OPM (band)|OPM]]'s "[[Heaven Is a Halfpipe]]"
* [[Maxim (musician)|Maxim]]'s "Carmen Queasy"
* [[P.O.D.]]'s "School of Hard Knocks"
* [[Stereophonics]]' "[[Mr. Writer]]"
* [[Muse (band)|Muse]]'s "[[New Born]]"
* Muse's "[[Bliss (Muse song)|Bliss]]"
* Muse's "[[Hyper Music/Feeling Good|Hyper Music]]"
* Muse's "[[Hyper Music/Feeling Good|Feeling Good]]"
* [[Tori Amos]]' "[[Strange Little Girl#Tori Amos version|Strange Little Girl]]"
* [[David Gray (British musician)|David Gray]]'s "[[This Year's Love (song)|This Year's Love]]"
* [[System of a Down]]'s "[[Aerials (song)|Aerials]]"
* [[The Music]]'s "Take the Long Road and Walk It"
* [[Rob Dougan]]'s "[[Clubbed to Death (instrumental)|Clubbed to Death]]"
* [[Starsailor (band)|Starsailor]]'s "[[Poor Misguided Fool]]"
* [[AFI (band)|AFI]]'s "[[Girl's Not Grey]]"
* [[Turin Brakes]]' "[[Pain Killer (Turin Brakes song)|Pain Killer]]"
* [[The Killers]]' "Goodnight, Travel Well" for UNICEF in conjunction with MTV EXIT

===Short films===
*''I Smell Quality'' (1994)
*''[[Do Geese See God?]]'' (2004)
*''MEATDOG: What's Fer Dinner'' (2008)<ref name="08pilots">{{cite web|publisher=[[Microsoft]]|date=23 July 2008|access-date=14 August 2008|title=So Funny, It's Scary: Hollywood's Top Horror Directors to Bring Original Comedy Pilots to Xbox 360 This Fall|url=http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/jul08/07-23ComicConXboxLivePR.mspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905045847/http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/jul08/07-23ComicConXboxLivePR.mspx|archive-date=5 September 2008}}</ref>

===Television series===
* ''[[Breaking Bad]]''
** Episode 4.03 – "[[Open House (Breaking Bad)|Open House]]"
* ''[[Awake (TV series)|Awake]]''
** Episode 1.01 – "[[Pilot (Awake)|Pilot]]"
* ''[[Hannibal (TV series)|Hannibal]]''
** Episode 1.01 – "[[Apéritif (Hannibal)|Apéritif]]"
** Episode 1.03 – "[[Potage (Hannibal)|Potage]]"
** Episode 1.13 – "[[Savoureux (Hannibal)|Savoureux]]"
** Episode 2.11 – "[[Kō No Mono]]"
** Episode 2.13 – "[[Mizumono (Hannibal)|Mizumono]]"
* ''[[Crossbones (TV series)|Crossbones]]''
** Episode 1.01 – "The Devil's Dominion"
* ''[[Powers (American TV series)|Powers]]''
** Episode 1.01 – "Pilot"
** Episode 1.02 – "Like a Power"
* ''[[American Gods (TV series)|American Gods]]''
** Episode 1.01 – "The Bone Orchard"
** Episode 1.02 – "The Secret of Spoons"
** Episode 1.03 – "Head Full of Snow"
* ''[[Black Mirror]]''
** Episode 4.05 – "[[Metalhead (Black Mirror)|Metalhead]]"
** ''[[Black Mirror: Bandersnatch]]'' (2018)
* ''[[Barkskins (TV series)|Barkskins]]''
** Episode 1.01 "New France"
** Episode 1.02 "The Turtle King"

==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*{{IMDb name|1720541}}
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm{{{1|1720541}}}/ {{{2|David Slade}}}] at the [[Internet Movie Database]]

*[http://www.mvdbase.com/tech.php?last=Slade&first=David David Slade Videography at The Music Video Database]
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Latest revision as of 21:12, 26 April 2024

For the co-owner of A-League club Western Sydney Wanderers, see David Slade (businessman).

David Slade
Slade at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con
Born
David Aldrin Slade

(1969-09-26) 26 September 1969 (age 55)
United Kingdom
Occupation(s)Actor, director
Years active1994–present

David Aldrin Slade (born 26 September 1969) is a British film and television director and actor. His works include the films Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Slade is also a director for television, directing episodes for Breaking Bad, Awake, Hannibal, Crossbones, Powers, American Gods and Black Mirror. Before he was a film director, Slade was a director of commercials and music videos.

Life and career

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Slade at the London premiere of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, 2010

He started his career making amateur music videos for local bands in the south of England. He had his films processed by an elderly woman who developed super 8 films for cheap in her bathtub. His first professional job was directing a commercial for the video game Silent Hill, for the English market.[1] His first feature film, Hard Candy, was released in 2005 by Lions Gate Entertainment, who purchased the independent movie at the Sundance Film Festival.[2] He went on to direct the vampire film 30 Days of Night in 2007.[3] Slade directed The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,[4] the third film in the Twilight film series.[5]

In a Twitter post, Slade listed his favorite films as Performance, Wings of Desire, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Possession.[6] Slade also attributes Performance as his main inspiration for becoming a film director.[7]

Filmography

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Feature films

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Music videos

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Short films

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Television series

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References

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  1. ^ "David Slade - My First Shoot". Myfirstshoot.com. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Press Conference: Interviews with the Cast & Crew of 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'". BloodyDisgusting. 14 June 2010.
  3. ^ "Twilight Saga: Eclipse Gets a New Editor; Muse Dropped from Soundtrack". DreadCentral. 9 August 2012.
  4. ^ "David Slade Talks Twilight Saga: Eclipse; New TV Spot "Something New"". DreadCentral. 10 June 2010.
  5. ^ "David Slade to Direct Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" (Press release). Summit Entertainment. 22 April 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
  6. ^ DAVID A SLADE [@DAVID_A_SLADE] (5 March 2012). "ALL TIME top 5 "PERFORMANCE"Roeg/Cammell. "WINGS OF DESIRE" Wim Wenders. "2001/Clockwork Orange" Kubrick "POSSESSION" Zulawski No surprises" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  7. ^ DAVID A SLADE [@DAVID_A_SLADE] (5 March 2012). "@AussieBecka Nic Roeg/Donald Cammell's "Performance"" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  8. ^ "So Funny, It's Scary: Hollywood's Top Horror Directors to Bring Original Comedy Pilots to Xbox 360 This Fall". Microsoft. 23 July 2008. Archived from the original on 5 September 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2008.
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