Profile
Name:
Wyatt
Channel Views:
5,535
Total Upload Views:
199,969
Style:
Variety
Age:
47
Joined:
Feb 6, 2007
Latest Activity:
2 months ago
Subscribers:
80
Website:
The Youtube destination for shorts, commercials, and trailers created by Wyatt Weed, writer, producer, and director with St. Louis-based company Pirate Pictures.
About Me:
Moving from his hometown of Springfield, Illinois to St. Louis in 1980, Wyatt attended Webster University for film production, Meramec College for still photography, and Southern Illinois University for acting. He dabbled in American Cablevision's "public access" opportunities, introducing him to the growing field of video as well as live television. After a string of short film and video projects, Wyatt landed his first film job in 1986 on the St. Louis portion of the Taylor Hackford - directed HAIL, HAIL, ROCK AND ROLL.
Longing for bigger and better opportunities, Wyatt took the trek west to Los Angeles in 1988 and soon found himself working as a jack of all trades in a variety of television shows and feature films, including FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, STAR TREK: VOYAGER, LORD OF ILLUSIONS, JAY-JAY THE JET PLANE, MUPPETS FROM SPACE, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2, and RED PLANET.
Wyatt soon moved from building miniatures and art department work into second unit directing and visual effect supervision on the features KUNG FU RASCALS, GUYVER: DARK HERO, and DRIVE. He also directed STAR RUNNERS, a science fiction television pilot. The pilot was purchased by Universal but unfortunately was never aired.
Wyatt met fellow filmmaker Robert Clark while working on long-time friend Ted Smith's GUARDIAN OF THE REALM, and joined Pirate Pictures after the completion of that feature. He recently returned to St. Louis permanently, writing and directing the short film TIMELINE, the music video RECAP, and the award-winning 48 Hour Film Project BAG OF TRICKS.
In 2007 Wyatt wrote and directed the vampire feature SHADOWLAND, which will debut theatrically in the summer of 2009 and be released to DVD later that same year.
Country:
United States
Occupation:
Director, Writer
Companies:
Pirate Pictures
Schools:
Urbana High, SIU Edwardsville, Webster University
Interests:
Movies, anything Retro, unique types of food, old diners, toys, books
Movies:
Movies: Retro: Ben Hur, Fantastic Voyage, War of the Worlds, Crack in the World, To Have and Have Not, Citizen Kane, In Harm's Way Modern: Superman (1978), Jaws, Alien, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ghostbusters, Silence of the Lambs, The Italian Job, Out of Sight, Princess Mononoke Television: ER, The West Wing (possibly the best show EVER ON TELEVISION), Studio 60, Friends, Unwrapped, Inside the Actor's Studio, Barney Miller (yes, I'm that old), Mad About You, News Radio. Original Star Trek is still the best.
Music:
INXS, No Doubt, 80's alternative, Radio Nigel
Books:
20 Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, The Devils of D-Day, The Ragman's Son, Dune, The Dark Knight (graphic novel), Hamlet
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I look forward to checking your future works, and I'm going to try and get my hands on the past works. (Guardian looks like fun)
Keep at it!!!
- VINCENT PRICE
Is the Ted Smith you mention someone from SIU that also did the LA program, maybe summer of 1996? Trying to reconnect with him.
be well!