October 12, 2023

27. Breaking Down the Casting Life (Part 3) Continued: Casting Director's Relationships with Directors - Director Corin Hardy

47 minutes

From a young age, Corin developed a dark and distinctive flair for creating monsters, animations and Super-8 horror films. He studied Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art before spending 5 years making his award-winning stop-motion film, BUTTERFLY. With a keen interest in music, he directed cinematic promos for many artists including: The Prodigy, Biffy Clyro, Keane, The Horrors, Paolo Nutini and Ed Sheeran. In 2011, Screen International selected Hardy as one of their ‘Stars Of Tomorrow.’

In 2015 Corin’s debut feature THE HALLOW launched at Sundance to international acclaim, taking home numerous awards including best horror film in Empire Film Awards, Best feature at Fantastic Fest, Strasbourg, and taking home 5 awards at the LA Scream Fest, including best director. He was nominated as Best Debut Director at BIFA. In 2018, Corin directed his second feature THE NUN. THE NUN went on to become the highest grossing film of the Conjuring franchise and is the 9th highest grossing horror movie of all time.

Most recently, he became lead director, co-showrunner and executive producer of Season 2 of Sky & AMC+’s action crime saga GANGS OF LONDON. He directed half of the episodes in Season 1, which became Sky’s most binge-watched show of 2020.

On this episode Jess and Jenn dive into Corin's journey as a director starting out in stop motion, moving into music videos as well as his most recent years working in film and Television

*SPOILER ALERT- there are lots of spoilers for the show Gangs of London. If you haven't caught up on the show yet, make sure to go watch the show on AMC+ (in America) and Sky (in the UK)

Corin's origin story and his love for monster making and art turning into directing films for horror and action.

How he made the transition from music videos into film and television

How he came to be director and then co-showrunner for Gangs of London

The casting process for Gangs of London including all the diversity and searches for the cast

His creative process for Gangs of London and all the action sequences and the actors willingness to be a part of it

Casting in the Indie space vs. Studio films

Getting indies cast with certain levels of star names and how to create stars in the new world of streamers and studios

Exciting projects coming up for Corin

Corin's Drink of Choice (or 3!)

Resources:

Butterfly Stop Motion Short Film

Corin Hardy IMDB

Corin's Instagram

Gangs of London Podcast with Corin

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By Jessica Sherman and Jenn Presser

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