#DASBOOT INSTAGRAM MOVIE#

#DASBOOT INSTAGRAM MOVIE#

Petersen was riding high, but his next movie sank him. (Adjusted for inflation, Air Force One was the director's most successful film.) (Peter Kramer/Getty Images)īut in general, Petersen was helping to pioneer the critic-proof movie - Troy's worldwide gross was $497 million US, most of it from overseas. Troy, one of Petersen's most successful films, grossed $497 million US worldwide. The film was not well received by critics and didn't make any money, and indeed, Petersen did not make another film for six years.įrom left, actors Eric Bana, Peter O'Toole and Brad Pitt attend the premiere of Troy on May 10, 2004, in New York City. His next effort was Enemy Mine, about an astronaut (Dennis Quaid) who crash-lands on an alien planet and teams with a lizard-like alien (Louis Gossett Jr.) from the species he was battling in order to survive the harsh environment. However successful Petersen was in appealing to children, he quickly graduated to films geared toward adults. Roger Ebert said it managed to let kids know 'that the story isn't just somehow happening, that storytelling is a neverending act of the imagination,' and the film has been dearly loved by moviegoers since its release. His first feature in Hollywood was the 1984 fantasy adventure The NeverEnding Story, which he directed and co-scripted. A 'neverending act of imagination'īut the director started on very different films. In it, he accomplished the unlikely feat of making audiences feel for the ordinary men serving on the submarine, who were all at least nominally in service to the Nazi cause.ĭas Boot was nominated for six Oscars - an enormous number for a foreign film - including two for Petersen, for director and adapted screenplay. Petersen was perhaps best known for 1981's Das Boot, the harrowing story of life aboard a German U-boat during the Second World War. Petersen died Friday at his home in the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Brentwood after a battle with pancreatic cancer, said representative Michelle Bega. Wolfgang Petersen, who rode his acclaimed German-language film Das Boot into a career directing Hollywood blockbusters such as In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm and Troy, has died.

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