Adrian Lyne

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Adrian Lyne
Born (1941-03-04) 4 March 1941 (age 83)
Peterborough, England
EducationHighgate School
Occupations
  • Film director
  • film producer
  • screenwriter
Years active
  • 1976–present
Spouse
Samantha Lyne
​
(m. 1974)​
Children1
RelativesOliver Lyne (brother)

Adrian Lyne (born 4 March 1941)[1] is an English film director. In the mid 1970s, he directed television commercials for DIM Lingerie (France).

Lyne's career in feature length films began in 1980 with

Foxes (1980 film)
.

Lyne is known for sexually charged narratives, conflicting passions, the power of seduction, moral ambiguity, betrayal, and the indelibility of infidelity.

Lyne has crafted a recognizable visual style that borrows from Sven Nykvist but is not reductive. The grain is richly pigmented in suffused duotones lit from the heavens. Stark monochrome yields to gloaming amber, each frame an oil painted microcosm.[2][3]

He is best known for directing Flashdance, 9½ Weeks, Fatal Attraction, Jacob's Ladder, Indecent Proposal, Lolita, and Unfaithful. Lyne received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director.[4]

Early life

Lyne was born in Peterborough, Northamptonshire (now Cambridgeshire) and raised in London.[1] He was educated at Highgate School in North London;[5] together with his younger brother, Oliver Lyne (1944–2005), a classical scholar and academic at the University of Oxford.[6] Their father was a teacher at the school.[5]

Career

An avid moviegoer during his school days at

London Film Festival. Lyne made his feature filmmaking debut in 1980 with Foxes, a look at the friendship of four teenage girls growing up in the San Fernando Valley, starring Jodie Foster
.

His next film, 1983's Flashdance, was an innovative blend of rock 'n' roll, new dance styles, and visual imagery. Lyne's visuals (reminiscent of his 1970s UK commercials for Brutus Jeans), wedded to Giorgio Moroder's score, propelled the story of an aspiring ballerina (Jennifer Beals, in her film debut) who works in a factory by day and dances in a club at night.[7] The film generated over $200 million worldwide and was the third highest-grossing film of 1983.[8] The film was also nominated for four Academy Awards, with the theme song, "What a Feeling", winning the Oscar for Best Song. In 1986, Lyne attracted controversy with 9½ Weeks. Based on a novel by Elizabeth McNeill, the tale of a sexually abusive relationship starred Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. Although considered too explicit by its American distributor, and cut for U.S. release, it became a huge hit abroad in its unedited version.

Lyne's fourth film was Fatal Attraction, which generated over $320 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 1987.[9] Based on James Dearden's British erotic thriller Diversion, the story of a happily married lawyer (Michael Douglas) who tries to break off an affair with an attractive single woman (Glenn Close), only to have her become obsessed with him and endanger his family, the film struck a chord with audiences. Deemed "the zeitgeist hit of the decade" by Time magazine, Fatal Attraction earned six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Glenn Close), Best Supporting Actress (Anne Archer), Best Screenplay and Best Editing.

In 1990, Lyne directed Jacob's Ladder. Written by Academy Award-winner Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost) and starring Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña and Danny Aiello, the film takes audiences on a journey through Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer's (Robbins) post-war life where apparent reality is interleaved with nightmarish hallucinations, leading to a twist ending. With Indecent Proposal, Lyne examined how the sexes look at relationships and money. Starring Robert Redford, Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore, Indecent Proposal became a worldwide box office hit.[10]

Lyne's version of

Golden Globe Award
and an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Twenty year gap

After Unfaithful, Lyne did not direct another movie for nearly twenty years.

In 2012, Lyne was in talks to direct a film adaptation of the

A.S.A. Harrison novel Silent Wife.[12] The next year, Michael Douglas and Halle Berry were connected to another Lyne project called Silence.[13] As of 2022
nothing has come out of any of those projects.

Return to directing

He most recently directed the erotic thriller Deep Water, based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith.[14] Disney's 20th Century Studios released the film on Hulu in the United States and on Amazon Prime Video in other countries.[15] It is Lyne's first directorial effort in 20 years, and the first erotic film released by Disney since Color of Night in 1994.[16][17]

Filmography

As director:

As writer:

References

  1. ^ a b "Adrian Lyne". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 19 March 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Adrian Lyne & Nicole Kidman Team For Hot AFM Pic 'Silent Wife'". Deadline. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Come Back to the Cinema Plex, Adrian Lyne". Musée magazine. Retrieved 21 January 2022. Your films gather characters' dysfunctions and mend their gloomy lives through the delicate haze of soft and natural lighting
  4. ^ "1988 | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences".
  5. ^ a b Highgate School Register 7th Edn 1833–1988, Ed. Patrick Hughes & Ian F Davies 1989
  6. ^ Currie, Bruno (1 April 2005). "Professor Oliver Lyne: Olympian Balliol classicist". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  7. ^ a b c Delaney, Sam (23 August 2007). "The British admen who saved Hollywood". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  8. ISBN 0-688-04889-7
    .
  9. ^ "Fatal Attraction". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 5 August 2007.
  10. ^ "Indecent Proposal". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
  11. ^ Trumbore, Dave (13 April 2012). "Adrian Lyne May Direct the Adaptation of John Grisham's THE ASSOCIATE". Collider. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  12. ^ "Adrian Lyne & Nicole Kidman Team for Hot AFM Pic 'Silent Wife'". 30 October 2015.
  13. ^ "Michael Douglas & Halle Berry to Star in Adrian Lyne's 'Silence' – Cannes". 13 May 2016.
  14. ^ "Adrian Lyne Deep Water Ana de Armas, Ben Affleck Patricia Highsmith novel – Deadline". August 2019.
  15. ^ Palmer, Roger (13 December 2021). ""Deep Water" Moving To Hulu". What's on Disney Plus. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  16. ^ "Full Frontal Nudity From the Company That Patented the Cute Wiggly Tush - Los Angeles Times". Los Angeles Times. 3 April 1994.
  17. ^ "New Regency Bringing Adrian Lyne Back To Directing With 'Deep Water;' Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas In Talks For Patricia Highsmith Adaptation". August 2019.

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