Max Makowski
Max Makowski
Director, producer, screenwriter
Max Makowski was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil but has lived all over the world in countries such as England, the Philippines, Peru, Bahrain, the U.S.A, Germany, Cuba, and Hong Kong where he became a director, producer, writer, editor, and cameraman for Salon Films as well as CNBC and NBC Asia - where he also produced the TODAY SHOW for the Asian market.
Max will direct the bigscreen adaptation of the 1970s TV series Kung Fu which revolved around a Shaolin monk forced to flee to the Wild West, where he used his martial arts skills to fend off various evildoers. It will be shot entirely in mainland China.
Max says he hopes the remake will be "edgier, faster-paced, less Zen contemplation and more action. We want to take advantage of the fact that our hero is a Shaolin monk stuck in the lawless tough world of the wild West."
The Hollywood studio Legendary Pictures, which made Superman Returns and 300, is leading the project and Warner Bros. is co-financing and distributing.
Max's credits include the movies The Pigeon Egg Strategy (premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in 1998), One Last Dance (premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in 2006 and went on to Cannes), and television series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (2003) and The Agency (2005).
He is also working on writing and directing a Universal film based on the Japanese movie Shinobi, a Studio Canal film based on Le Professionnel, and he has rewritten the screenplay for the bigscreen version of Hawaii Five-O.
The characters on the lower right side of his doodle mean "Kung Fu".
To read more about Max and his projects, visit FilmOrient.
