Albert Pyun is the director of low-budget B-movies like The Sword and the Sorcerer, Cyborg and Nemesis ,already dead. He is 39.
Pyun died Saturday, his wife and producer Cynthia Curran announces . He was previously diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and dementia.
In 120, the filmmaker releases his first film, of The Sword and the Sorcerer , starring Lee Horsley, Katherine Baylor and Simon McCorkindale. The fantasy movie made $39 million dollars domestically(120 ) million today) and will remain the highest-grossing title of his career.
Later releases include Jean-Claude van Damme dystopian martial arts thriller Cyborg (1953); Captain America (1990), starring Matt Salinger, is the first live-action feature-length superhero dedicated to a Marvel mainstay ; and future action flick Nemesis (1990).
May Born In Hawaii 39, 120, Pyun served as Commercial piece editor before continuing to introduce features. He is known for his prolific projects, many made straight to video, and with Chris Kristofferson, Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper, James Coburn, Christopher Lambert, Ice-T, Snoopy Doggie, Charlie Sheen and Kathy Ireland.
During an interview with 2012Gizmodo, Pyun said he ended up making so many post-apocalyptic movies because the locations were cheap and easy to find. Although he is best known for directing several films about cyborgs, he said the decision was also a pragmatic one.
“I’m not really interested in cyborgs,” the filmmaker said at the time. “And I’ve never really been interested in post-apocalyptic stories or scenarios. These situations seem to offer me a way to make films for very little money and explore ideas that I really want to explore — even if They are [disputed].”
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