Christophe Gans expressed his early passion for cinema by writing for several fanzines and magazines including the ultra-cult “Starfix,” a film lovers’ bible whose committed tone and audacious editorial line definitively influenced several generations of movie junkies. In 1994, at the instigation of producer Samuel Hadida, he moved into directing with one segment of the Lovecraftian anthology Necronomicon entitled The Drowned. The following year, he adapted one of the monuments of Japanese comic books, Ryoichi Ikegami and Kazuo Koike’s Crying Freeman, revealing a sensibility fusing pop, classical, Western and Eastern influences. In 2001, he went off to explore the 18th century with the adventure film Brotherhood of the Wolf, which garnered a huge worldwide audience. In 2006, he directed a film adaptation of the horror video game masterpiece Silent Hill, once again captivating audiences around the globe. He returned to screens in 2014 with a new adaptation of the celebrated fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.
Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer
