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Frank Miller
Birth at
27 January 1957
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He was born on January 27, 1957 in Olney, Maryland. He spent his youth in Vermont. Among youth hobbies are cinema and crime novels. Later moved to New York, where in 1977 he got a job as an artist in the publishing house "Golden Key", for which he drew comics from the series "Twilight Zone". After working with several other publishers, along with writer Roger Mackenzie and artist Klaus Jensen, Miller set about creating a series of Daredevil comics. Over the years of working with the publishing house
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He was born on January 27, 1957 in Olney, Maryland. He spent his youth in Vermont. Among youth hobbies are cinema and crime novels. Later moved to New York, where in 1977 he got a job as an artist in the publishing house "Golden Key", for which he drew comics from the series "Twilight Zone". After working with several other publishers, along with writer Roger Mackenzie and artist Klaus Jensen, Miller set about creating a series of Daredevil comics. Over the years of working with the publishing house Marvel, Miller has established himself not only as a magnificent artist, but also as an outstanding author who was not afraid of unexpected plot decisions, easily dealt with beloved characters and avoided the traditional for the genre of happy endings, focusing on a more adult audience than was previously accepted. He took the same approach while working on the Batman comic book series Return of the Black Knight. Miller identified a new direction in the aesthetics of comics, which later began to work not only his fellow artists, but also filmmakers. It was Miller’s comics that largely influenced the Batman films directed by Tim Burton. So Miller's appearance in Hollywood was a matter of time. His first film work was the scripts for the science fiction films Robot Cop 2 (1990, Irvin Kershner) and Robot Cop 3 (1992, Fred Dekker). At the same time, in the early nineties, he began to create his most significant work - the comic book "Sin City". Full of blood and violence, its roots went into the aesthetics of criminal novels of such masters of the genre “Noir” as Hammett and Chandler and demonstrated the rejection of the mythology of superheroes usual for comics. In 1993, the artist starred in a cameo role in the film Daredevil (Mark Steven Johnson), based on his early works. Back in the eighties, in the process of working on a series about the adventures of Daredevil, Miller simultaneously launched two more series with a new main character - the hired killer Electra, who had previously appeared in his comics only as a secondary character. Director Rob Bowman took up the adaptation of these series and when in 2005 Electra came out on screens, Miller was declared in the credits as a screenwriter-co-author. However, the greatest success fell to Miller's lot thanks to the collaboration with the famous director Robert Rodriguez - an old fan of his talent, Rodriguez offered to film Sin City and attracted to this work his old friend Quentin Tarantino and the star cast: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Rutger Hauer, Benicio del Toro and Elijah Wood. Frank Miller himself in this project acted in three ways: as a screenwriter, co-director and actor. The film appeared in 2005 and demonstrated the desire of the authors to most reliably recreate the atmosphere of the iconic comic book on the screen.