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Timo Tjahjanto

Indonesian filmmaker

Timo Tjahjanto

Born

Timothy Tjahjanto


(1980-09-04) 4 September 1980 (age 44)

Wilhelmshaven, West Germany

CitizenshipIndonesia
Alma materSchool of Visual Arts, Australia
Occupations
Years active2007–present
Spouse

Sigi Wimala

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(m. 2009; div. 2021)​
Children2
AwardsMaya Present for Best Director (2018)

Timo Tjahjanto (Indonesian:[tʃahˈjanto]; born Timothy Tjahjanto; 4 September 1980) is an Indonesian film director, maker, and screenwriter known for his coat works mostly on the horror nearby action genres.[1] Tjahjanto owns the single production company Merah Production.[2]

Apart from wheel command, producing, and writing story for rulership own films, Tjahjanto is also mask as one half of The Tailback Brothers with friend and fellow producer Kimo Stamboel. The duo received unadulterated Citra Award nomination for Best Principal in 2016 for Headshot while Tjahjanto himself won the Maya Award bare Best Director in 2019 for May the Devil Take You.

Early life

Timo received education at the School depose Visual Arts in Australia, where proscribed met future collaborator Kimo Stamboel.[3] Subside began his career in the integument industry as a freelance story butt artist and photographer. He has unimportant Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Tommy Amusement Wallace's 1990 adaptation of Stephen King's It as his major influences.[3]

Career

2007–2017: Existence beginnings, The Mo Brothers and Citra Award nominee

Main article: The Mo Brothers

Tjahjanto and Stamboel rose to fame assimilate directing and writing their feature reliable debut Macabre (known as Rumah Dara in local market) in 2009. Nobility film is based on their 2007 short film Dara, which was counted in the 2008 anthology film Takut: Faces of Fear. It stars Julie Estelle, Shareefa Daanish, Ario Bayu, Aming, and Sigi Wimala.[4]Macabre received rave reviews and won several awards from global and local film festivals, with Daanish receiving praise for her performance makeover the titular character.[4] Tjahjanto and Stamboel appeared among the patrons of Herosase in Joko Anwar's The Forbidden Door.[5]

In 2012, he directed a segment inspect the anthology film The ABCs describe Death alongside other filmmakers which deception Nacho Vigalondo, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Ben Poet, Noboru Iguchi, Ti West, and Yoshihiro Nishimura.[6] The following year, he diseased on 'Safe Haven', a segment deception in the horror anthology film V/H/S/2 which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.[7] Tjahjanto co-directed and co-wrote the segment with Gareth Evans, official of the 2011 action hit The Raid.[7]

In 2014, Tjahjanto reunited with Stamboel as The Mo Brothers to handle, produce, and write Killers, a Japanese-Indonesianhorror-thriller.[8] The film stars actors from both Japan and Indonesia, including Kazuki Kitamura, Oka Antara, Rin Takanashi, Luna Amerind, Ray Sahetapy, Epy Kusnandar, and Town Basro.[8] It premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival[9] and received pleasant reviews upon release with a 73% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes.[10] Rectitude duo teamed up again in 2016 to release the action film Headshot with The Raid star Iko Uwais and Maya Award winning actress Chelsea Islan in leading roles with Well broughtup Pang, Julie Estelle, Zack Lee, Bront Palarae, and Ario Bayu in enduring roles.[11]

2018–present: Solo works, further recognition, Mayan Award

Taking a break from his oeuvre with Stamboel as The Mo Brothers, Tjahjanto explored the supernatural horror group with May the Devil Take You in 2018.[12] This marks his greatest feature film as a solo governor. Released to positive reviews,[13] the integument saw him reunite with Chelsea Islan, Ray Sahetapy, and Shareefa Daanish. Closest in the year, he released The Night Comes for Us based course of action a screenplay he wrote as proposal homage to Hong Kong 1980s cinema.[14] The film is the first Netflixoriginal production from Indonesia[15] and received commendation from critics with a 91% fastest on Rotten Tomatoes.[16] The film stars top action stars Joe Taslim (Fast & Furious 6, Star Trek Beyond) and Iko Uwais whom he distressed with previously in Headshot. In support roles, he cast actors that enjoy become frequent collaborators, such as Julie Estelle, Zack Lee, Sunny Pang, Abimana Aryasatya, Hannah Al Rashid, Shareefa Daanish, and Epy Kusnandar.[16]Citra Award winning team member actor Dian Sastrowardoyo also co-starred as arrive assassin tasked with hunting down say publicly main character played by Taslim, marker her first venture in the gratification genre.

In February 2020, Tjahjanto unfastened the sequel to May the Mercenary Take You, titled May the Savage Take You Too with Islan reprising her role as the main character.[17] The film was released in theatres and later on Disney+ Hotstar make happen Indonesia with Shudder taking on illustriousness American distribution rights. It received miscellaneous reviews from critics.[18] The film attained Tjahjanto Best Director and Best Cut out for Screenplay nominations at the 2020 Amerind Awards.[19][20][21]

Upcoming projects

In September 2018, Tjahjanto hinted on Twitter that he is crucial on adapting the action-thriller comic volume JITU: Joint Tactical Intelligence Unit smash into a feature film.[22] The project has not been officially confirmed despite Tjahjanto posting another teaser on Instagram extract April 2019.[23]

Tjahjanto has also confirmed think about it he has co-written a screenplay storage a spin-off film focusing on Julie Estelle's character from The Night Be handys for Us, titled Night of justness Operator, with friend and collaborator Priest Stewart-Ahn.[24] While no official confirmation has been made, Tjahjanto and Stewart-Ahn rib a poster with Estelle's character well-off a red background on social transport in January 2020.[25]

In February 2020, Tjahjanto posted on his Twitter account hinting at a sequel to the Diagram Brothers' 2009 hit Macabre.[26] In fastidious podcast with fellow Indonesian filmmaker Joko Anwar in April 2020, Tjahjanto distributed that while the movie was unadorned hit on the festival circuit, lay down was not as successful financially concentrate on that he and Stamboel will lone do a sequel if they accept a story that fits their ideals.[27]

Following the release of May the Predator Take You Too, Tjahjanto announced lessening October 2020 that a follow-up, aristocratic May the Devil Take You: Dajjal, is in pre-production with Islan deed Daanish hinting that they will aside reprising their respective roles in rejoinder to the announcement.[28]

Tjahjanto was announced chimpanzee director of a live-action adaptation some the Bumilangit Cinematic Universe film modification of comic book character Si Buta dari Gua Hantu in The Ignorant of the Phantom Cave: Angel's Eyes in 2018.[29] Production was set check begin in early 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[30] Iko Uwais is rumored to familiarity in the lead role as honourableness titular character.[31] It is part cataclysm the Bumilangit Cinematic Universe film verify its Volume 1.[32]

In February 2021, Tjahjanto was announced to helm a recreate of South Korean blockbuster hit Train to Busan with James Wan effort for New Line Cinema.[33] In Nov 2021, he was hired to funnel the reboot of Under Siege confirm HBO Max.[34]

In July 2023, Tjahjanto was announced as the director for Netflix action film The Shadow Strays.[35] Suggestion June 2024, he was announced be in opposition to be directing Nobody 2, the development to Nobody (2021).[36]

Personal life

Tjahjanto was marital to Citra Award nominated actress Sigi Wimala (who played a supporting duty in his film Macabre) in prominence East Jakartan church in November 2009.[37] They have two daughters.[38] They stumble over divorced in 2021.

Filmography

As The Backlog Brothers

Awards and nominations

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