Science fiction and fantasy are known for their amazing comebacks . Just like the Heron that genre fiction celebrates , many of the advantageously - loved creators of science fiction and fantasy have come back from huge blow , or left the writing style all and then come roar back . Because we always support our writing style heroes .
Here are 10 creators of science fiction and fantasy who ’ve made ( or are making ) awing counter .
1 ) Peter Jackson
really you could fence that Jackson has made two comebacks in his life history , both thanks to J.R.R. Tolkien . The first came after his bountiful movie , The Frighteners , flop in 1996 — and then he amount back with the Lord of the Rings trilogy . But there ’s also the comeback he ’s launching right on now . King Kong was a huge dashing hopes , although it probably made back its money in the destruction . And his adaptation of The Lovely Bones was an unlimited failure , both critically and at the box office . So Jackson must be number his lucky stars that Guillermo del Toro drop out of direct The Hobbit , allowing him to return and direct what ’s almost certain to be a mega - megahit .
2 ) Mark Hamill
Of of course , he got his big break play Luke Skywalker in Star Wars . After this , though , he did n’t have much of a film career , perhaps because he was stress to avoid typecasting . He was successful in afew movies , though he expend a lot of time on Broadway . And then occur … vox work . His self-aggrandising repercussion back into the mainstream come from voicing some of our favorite fictitious character . In particular , some of his most famous employment since Star Wars is likely his role as the Joker in various animated Batman TV series , video game , motion-picture show , and other medium . A whole contemporaries of nerds now thinks of Hamill as “ the voice of the Joker . ”
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3 ) Christopher Lee
Leemade a lot of flick in the 50 , but most of them were n’t too memorable . He became known for horror movies starting in 1957 and 1958 , when he play Frankenstein ’s monster in The Curse of Frankenstein and the title character in Dracula . He continued playing Dracula and other characters in horror films — as well as both Holmes brothers — from that point until the tardy 70 . It looks like he die to get a drawing string of use that might have really done something for his career since then — includingthe titular scoundrel in Dr. No , Dr. Loomis in Halloween , andMagneto in ten - homo . His Rotten Tomatoes profile also shows several “ rotten ” films in the 90 . A major turnround come when he played Saruman in The Lord of the Rings . From there , he play Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequels and had small-scale part in a several Tim Burton movies . Last year , he had a little role in Hugo as the bookstore proprietor , Monsieur Labisse . The approaching films for The Hobbit will in all likelihood give him another life history boost .
4 ) Katsuhiro Otomo
Otomo not only write and drew the Akira manga , a in an elaborate way complex narrative of epic proportionality , but successfully adapted it to the covert in what is surely one of the secure cyberpunk film of all time , and a picture that redefined anime as a whole . Despite Akira ’s achiever , Otomo kept a low visibility during the 90s , lending his talent to other artists Satoshi Kon ( Perfect Blue ) , Enki Bilal , and productions likes 1998 ’s Spriggan . Otomo returned to the limelight in 2001 alongside famed director Rintaro , with the visually stunning adaptation of Ozamu Tezuka ’s Metropolis . briefly after , Otomo released his long - brew pet project , Steamboy , which , despite falling unretentive in the plot department , remains a tremendous shovelful of steampunk optic candy .
5 ) Philip K. Dick
Dick notoriously hit a rough patch in the 70s , after two decades of prolific , non - stop written material ( indeed , Dick write 40 - leftover novel from 1950 to 1970 ) . His divorcement in 1970 reportedly go to his admixture with street masses and drugs , and culminated in a full - on dependency to speed ( a habit he had been nurturing for some time ) . He stopped writing , and only resurfaced in the public middle age by and by with the semi - autobiographical A Scanner Darkly , which recounts his experience during this flow and is widely hailed as one of his full efforts .
6 ) Ridley Scott
It is interesting to think that the Godfather of modern SF motion-picture show has n’t touched the genre in 30 year , after the failure of his 1985 fantasy film Legend . He was in line to direct Isobar , a movie about a killer alien on a super railroad train , in the late eighties , with H.R. Giger doing output design , but the project fall through . Since then , he ’s certainly been keeping busy , and with successful blockbuster such as Thelma and Louise , Gladiator , Black Hawk Down and American Gangster , he ’s for certain stay successful outside of genre film . But Prometheus marks the first time he revisit a writing style he aid define in the late 70s and early eighty with Alien and Blade Runner . With Good Book that he is also work on a Blade Runner prequel / subsequence / spin - off , perhaps it ’s not too much to hope he keep at it for a while .
7 ) David Lynch
Lynch ’s career began with the seminal midnight motion picture , Eraserhead . Its unexpected winner , in plus to the critically and financially successful The Elephant Man , led the studios to permit Lynch to helm the large - budget film adaptation of Frank Herbert ’s Dune , to consentient dashing hopes . To be comely , the end result is not Lynch ’s vision ( he tried to Alan Smithee the project ! ) , as he pass the intact production in a creative tower - a - warfare with the studio apartment . Thankfully , these consequence precede Lynch to try his handwriting at goggle box , from which go up the dateless supernatural thriller , Twin Peaks .
- J. Michael Straczynski
Straczynski created Babylon 5 , and write 92 of its 110 episodes , until the remnant of the show ’s run in 1998 . Unfortunately , he never quite managed to muster enough impulse for his next TV projects , Crusade and Jeremiah , to take off , but he did keep busybodied write The Amazing Spider - Man from 2001 - 2007 . Recently , however , Straczynski has been involved with several high profile projects , including Joel Silver and the Wachowskis ’ Ninja Assassin , a Forbidden Planet reboot , World War Z , and Thor .
- Tim Burton
Here ’s another Lord who ’s made a couple of riposte — he got fired by Disney early in his career , when he was making eldritch , spooky hooey like Frankenweenie that the Mouse House did n’t apprize . ( And of path , now a full - length Frankenweenie motion picture is on its way … from Disney . ) But he bounced back from that and became a major managing director in the 1980s , culminate in the first two Batman movies . And then … a string of flops in the
late nineties and other 2000s , include Ed Wood , Mars Attacks , Sleepy Hollow , bighearted Pisces the Fishes and the financially successful but critically panned Planet of the Apes . And then he bounced back in a self-aggrandizing fashion , mostly thanks to doing slightly more Disney - friendly fare like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland . Even his more macabre Sweeney Todd did respectably , thanks to another collaborationism with Johnny Depp .
9 ) George R.R. Martin
Almost punishing to think now , but there was a metre when George R.R. Martin was a fail TV producer . He was a producer on Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast , and then spent five punishing year in Hollywood , pitch appearance that never got off the ground . ( let in one that was suspiciously close to Sliders , which was made a year afterward . ) As Martin isfond of sayingin interview , “ In some substitute humanity , perhaps I became Joss Whedon or J. J. Abrams . ” Instead , he pull up stakes Hollywood and go off … to compose A Game of Thrones . Which ended up conquering television . “ Jon Snow , you hump nothing . ” Indeed .
10 ) Joss Whedon
It ’s not too soon to throw Whedon in here . sure enough , he will always have his Browncoats and Buffy fantatics — but he was on the verge of becoming a rage icon rather than a literal , honorable - to - gosh creator of stuff the general public sees . And this is shaping up to be the twelvemonth of the Joss . First of all , it ’s almost impossible to imagine any scenario where Avengers is n’t a hit , at this point . And there ’s stacks of bombination for Cabin in the Woods , the long - delayed indie horror movie that Whedon co - write and produced . Plus thesupernatural rom - comhe wrote , In Your eye , also might come out this yr . It ’s almost concentrated to call up that Whedon had one fully grown - screen flop ( sorry , Browncoats ) , a Wonder Woman projection that kick the bucket , and a TV show that hitch into oblivion .
Additional reporting by Charlie Jane Anders .
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