The filmmaker James Foley, whose production career has experienced clips, television and cinema, with stars such as Madonna, Al Pacino and Bruce Dern, died.
Florent Lamy, a Foley representative, confirmed Thursday the death of the director born in Brooklyn at the time. Lamy did not provide the case of death, but according to the media, in particular The Hollywood ReporterThe filmmaker had fought against brain cancer. Foley was 71 years old.
“James Foley was not only a talented director but also a dear friend,” Lamy told Times. “He was one of my very first customers, and over time, he became someone very special in my life.”
The Foley career of production – which included in particular the films “Glengarry Glen Ross”, “at close range” and the “Fifty Shades” consequences – began in the mid -1980s. The 1984 film “Reckless” marked its beginnings as director and gave it the opportunity to work alongside actors Daryl Hannah and Aidan Quinn and a prolific producer Chris Columbus.
In the following years, Foley made films – including “At Close Range” of 1986 (with Sean Penn and Christopher Walken) and “After Dark, My Sweet” from 1990 (with Dern) – as well as clips and other visuals from Madonna, which was on the way to the world's celebrity of pop at the time. From 1985 to 1990, Foley made clips for clips for “Dress You Up” from Madge and “True Blue”. He produced both his clip “Who is this girl?” and his 1987 comedy of the same name.
Foley also made clips for the rock group Deep Purple and Marky Mark, the former rap character of actor Mark Wahlberg. He would later find Wahlberg for the 1996 thriller “Fear” and “The Corruptor” from 1999, with Chow Yun-Fat.
In 1992, Foley directed the Cinematographic adaptation From “Glengarry Glen Ross” of the playwright David Mamet. One of the most popular works in Foley, the adaptation included a starry cast of Pacino, Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey and Jonathan Pryce. Pacino received the Oscar and Golden Globe appointments for his work on black comedy.
Foley's final film credits, “Fifty Shades Darker” and “Fifty Shades Freed”, was also among his popular works. Foley took over the film franchise, based on El James erotic novels, after the director of “Fifty Shades of Gray”, Sam Taylor-Johnson dispute With the author, who was also a producer. The films “Fifty Shades” featured Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan.
Foley also made episodes for the series “Twin Peaks”, “Hannibal”, “House of Cards” (which gathered it with Spacey) and “Billions”, among other programs.
In a Interview 2017 With the Hollywood Reporter, Foley said that he had embraced the variety of his career for several decades. “I had a very fluid career of ups and down and left-handers and rights, and I have just answered what interested me at the moment and I was very unconscious about the genre,” he said.
“I have always just followed my nose, for the better or for the worst, sometimes for the worst. What is best and what is worse (about industry) is almost the same for me,” he added. “Because what is worse is that you are a pigeonnier and what is best is that I have not been. It means that I always make films, despite the jump of jumps everywhere.”
Foley's survivors include his brother Kevin, the Sisters Eileen and Jo Ann, and the nephew Quinn, in several reports. He was preceded in death by his other brother Gerard.
