Danny Cannon

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Danny Cannon born 1968 in Luton England is a film and television screenwriter director and producer Cannon began making films at the age of 16 in 1984 and started a youth experimental theatre group at 33 Arts Centre Using the centres facilities he was a very prolific director of video dramas and collaborated with a number of other directors in different roles including cameraman A major influence was the centres video maker Dermot Byrne with whom he worked on a number of projects It was at 33 that he met the future film composer David Arnold who played in a band that rehearsed there Cannon convinced Arnold that he could compose soundtracks for his and other peoples videos Arnolds first but not the last soundtrack for Byrne was The Undead written by Keith Moyes In 1987 Cannon then a teenager entered a competition in the British comic 2000 AD to design a poster for a possible future film of Judge Dredd His work was published in the comics Prog 534 edition In his poster a clearly Blade Runnerinspired Cannon imagined that the director of the film would be Ridley Scott with Harrison Ford starring in the title role and Daryl Hannah costarring as PSI Anderson By 1987 he was awarded the BBC Young Filmmaker of the Year Award for a 40minute short called Sometimes He enrolled at the National Film and Television School in 1988 from which he graduated in 1990 He wrote and directed Strangers 1990 and The Young Americans 1993 the latter having as its title song Play Dead sung by Icelandic diva Björk Based on his work on the later gangster film producers signed him to direct the bigbudget but ultimately poorly received film Judge Dredd 1995 starring Sylvester Stallone Since then he has also directed Phoenix 1998 and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer 1998 Beginning in 2000 he has directed and produced various CSI television series In 2005 he directed Goal Cannon also plays football regularly with Hollywood United FC The team mostly features celebrities and former professional footballers They do however occasionally play against professional teams for friendly matches and charity events He directed a 2006 CBS television pilot Capital Law about a group of legal associates trying to make partner at a powerful Washington DCbased law firm More recently Cannon cocreated TNTs crime drama series starring Dylan McDermott called Dark Blue Cannon also directed the pilot episode for Dark Blue In 2010 Cannon joined The CW action series Nikita as director and executive producer In 2011 Cannon executive produced and directed the pilot for the FOX crimemystery Alcatraz