Biography of the legendary director Gore Verbinski

Gore Verbinski is Johnny Depp's beloved director, who not only took part in the filming of the Caribbean Pirates saga and The Lone Ranger, but also gave his voice to the leading character of the cartoon called Rango, which Verbinski won an Oscar.

Earlier creativity

Gore came to our mortal world in the early spring of 1964 in a town called Oak Ridge, where uranium enrichment companies were located. The tasks of the national level are still the basis of the economy of this city.
Gore is the third child of Victor Verbinski, who was originally from Poland, working as a physicist and his wife named Loretta McGovern. Her ancestors lived in Scotland. In the family, besides Gore, there were four more children. When the boy reached the age of three, the Verbinski family moved to California.

At the start of his biography, Gore learned to play several instruments in Los Angeles rock bands. Later, he connected his activities with shooting videos for musical groups.and also created commercials. Some punk bands resorted to his services, and a number of popular trade brands also needed his work.

Filmography of Verbinski

“A world without twine is complete chaos” is the motto of Verbinski’s debut feature film, a fantasy comedy series called Mouse Hunt. Brothers named Schmunz are trying to fulfill the last will of their dad and maintain the activities of the production engaged in the manufacture of twine. At the same time, the guys are chasing a mouse that has settled in their family estate. However, these attempts cannot be crowned with success. At the end of the film, the mouse becomes a member of the family business, and the Shmunts begin to make twine with cheese.

Commercial success was brought, despite the forecasts of critics, and a tape called Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Ribbon with the most Verbinski titles - "Rango". It was voted the highest quality animated film of 2011 by US film academics. The Western cartoon about the adventures of a chameleon in the Mojave desert area was closely associated with Gore's Pirates of the Caribbean project. Here you can hear in addition to the voice of Johnny Depp, who voiced the chameleon lizard, the creations of a composer named Hans Zimmer.

Gore's personal life

The director's family life is shrouded in a veil of mystery. It is only known that the man is married to a woman with the beautiful name of Clayton. Wife gave Verbinski two heirs. The couple gave the guys names: Ivan and Anton. In the social network "Instagram" the director does not have a personal account. Based on the pictures that occasionally appear on the Web, Verbinski has thick gray hair.

In a conversation with representatives of the Hollywood Reporter five years ago, Gore said that only music and one type of fishing could distract him from cinema. The director's favorite films, watching which he spends his free time, are "The Tenant" creativity of Roman Polanski and a tape called "Shine" Kubrick.

In the middle of winter 2018, Gore turned down the directorship of a franchise project called "X-Men - Gambit". After 2 years, the eminent director continued to work on a thriller with elements of science fiction, the name of which is Spaceless (“Without space”). The tape demonstrates the life of a killer who chases the victim through comical distances.

Interesting facts about "Rango"

A Western called Rango from Paramount about the life of a cute chameleon appeared on the screens already eleven years ago - in 2011. Therefore, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the most interesting stories about this animated western:

· During a conversation with journalists, Gore recalled that the Rango cartoon started as a dream project: it was the idea that came to the director during breakfast, and the script was developed in an empty house and with virtually no funds. Gore and his associates wrote the script, storyboarded the future western, and came up with the dialogue of the characters, fixing the notes to the creative project and the images included in the cartoon western to the walls in the room until the very moment when “the whole dwelling became associated with the visualization of the brain of a maniac ".

After a year and a half of coordinated actions of the entire creative troupe, the actor Johnny Depp joined the creation of the western, who at that time was in the rays of glory after the release of the franchise called "Pirates of the Caribbean". Gore introduced the actor to the storyline of the story, which by that time was already almost at the finish line, and Johnny simply told him in response to this: “I agreed even at the moment when I learned that the main character of the cartoon would be a lizard - chameleon.

Rango is Verbinski's first animated feature. As the director himself said, “In my creative biography there were no facts, which would show that I understand how to create amazing animation - and that's what helped make the production process of this animated film so interesting.

· The most positive part of the creative process was connected with how the recording of the voice acting of the characters with the voices of the actors was carried out. By the time this part of the work on the project started, Verbinski already had draft versions of how his characters should sound.. The director did not want to record each actor individually, for this very reason he announced a collective gathering of all project participants together for 20 days. He gave recommendations to all participants that they read the text from the sheet as little as possible, and, if possible, record all the dialogues live.

· The animators of the studio were well aware of the goal pursued by the director while working on this cartoon. They were aware of all the references and storyboards that Verbinski had created. together with his associates during the first months of the project.