The height of Eminem fever, though, would have to be when the film 8 Mile was released, directed by the now-late Curtis Hanson, with that film going on to set the blueprint for odd, fictionalized rap biopics to come.
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“Confidential” who took our lines, gave them emotion, humour, life”, Hanson said in his Oscar acceptance speech. He directed the 1992 psychological thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, starring Rebecca De Mornay as a revenge-seeking nanny, which became a surprise box office hit. Confidential, 8 Mile, and In Her Shoes, has died. “I’m lucky I got to know him”, he told Billboard. While it appeared that he died of a heart attack, the LA police spokesperson can not confirm but said Hanson died of “natural causes”.
Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Liliana Preciado said Hanson died of natural causes, CNN reported. “Confidential” that really propelled him into Hollywood’s elite. It was nominated for nine Oscars, also winning best supporting actress for Basinger, and helped launch Crowe’s career. The film starred Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey and Kim Basinger, painting a picture of the violence between cops and Hollywood figures in Los Angeles in the 1950’s.
“So sad to hear about Curtis Hanson. great director. great man. Riding that river with him was one of the greatest gigs of my life”, tweeted Kevin Bacon, a co-star in “The River Wild”. He most recently directed the 2012 surfing movie Chasing Mavericks but left the production because of an undisclosed illness.
Hanson began his career by co-writing The Dunwich Horror in 1970, and eventually went on to direct and write his first film, Sweet Kill, in 1973.
RIP Curtis Hansen. Thank you for believing in me & standing your ground.
A native of Reno, Nevada, who grew up in Los Angeles, Hanson dropped out of high school to work as a photographer, writer and editor for the magazine Cinema.
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One of his last films was 2011’s “Too Big to Fail”, a TV-movie adaptation of financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book on the 2008 financial meltdown.
