Brett Ratner: Filmography

Brett Ratner is a well-known Hollywood director and producer, whom the audience knows from the films "Rush Hour", "Red Dragon", "X-Men: The Last Battle", "After Sunset" and many others. Let's see what else was remarkable in the career of Brett Ratner.

Biography

Brett Ratner was born and raised in Miami. His father was the son of a famous American businessman, and his mother, a native of Cuba, moved to the US in the early 60's.

In 1990, Brett Ratner graduated from New York University.

Already becoming a well-known director, Brett Ratner recalled that the biographical fighter "Raging Bull" influenced his decision to join the world of cinema.

Careers in Hollywood

The career of Brett Ratner began in 1997. He made the comedy "Money decides everything," starring Chris Tucker and Charlie Sheen. With a budget of $ 25 million, the picture raised more than $ 48 million at the box office.

But this success fades in comparison with the next Brett Ratner film. Comedy thriller "Hour Rush" with Jackie Chan and Chris Takeer raised at the box office more than $ 240 million, received several prestigious film awards, received positive reviews from film critics and viewers. Of course, the next two sequels, too, put Brett Ratner. The "Rush Hour" movies are still very popular.

In 2002, Ratner took another very promising project - the adaptation of the novel "The Red Dragon" by the famous American writer Thomas Harris. Events of the "Red Dragon" occur long before the "Silence of the Lambs". The protagonist is a self-denying FBI agent named Graham, who contrived to detain the elusive Hannibal Lecter. After this triumph, Graham is going to leave the service, but he can not do it. A new ruthless serial killer appears in the city. Both the FBI and the police are powerless against him. The only way to stop it is to seek help from a psychiatrist who, like no one knows the inside world of the murderer - Hannibal Lecter.

This project of Ratner also won box-office success, not least thanks to the participation of such stars as Anthony Hopkins and Edward Norton. Critics rated the film highly, although not as "Silence of the Lambs".

Back in 1999, when the work on the fantasy thriller "X-Men" was just beginning, it was planned that the film would be put by Brett Ratner. But in the end he dropped out of the project, and his place was taken by Brian Singer. He also made the sequel of the film. In 2006, when Singer refused to withdraw the third part of the franchise, Brett Retner was still in the director's chair. It was he who made the film "The X-Men: The Last Battle". The commercial success of this film served as the impetus for creating several sequels and prequels to the original franchise.

The next notable picture in Brett Ratner's career is the comedy "How to Steal a Skyscraper" with Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy. The picture became one of the most successful commercially in 2011.

First failure

In 2013 Brett Ratner expected the first in his career failure. He took up the production of the comedy "Muvi 43". Star Hollywood actors such as Hugh Jackman, Keith Winslet and Emma Stone saved the picture from the box office failure, but they did not save from the total defeat of the critics. The film received three "Golden Raspberry", including for the worst directing. The reason for this was the lack of plot as such and frank humor, so to speak, an amateur.

Personal life

About the personal life of Brett Ratner is not known so much.

In 2011, he met with Russian TV presenter Marina Kim in the Caribbean islands. Marina, at the invitation of Brett, was present at the shooting of his film "Hercules". It is not known what the future plans are for Marina Kim and Brett Ratner.

For a time there were rumors about the novel of the director with the singer Mariah Carey. How long this novel lasted and why it ended - it is not known.