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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 American epic period war-drama film co-written, produced and directed by Peter Weir, set during the Napoleonic Wars. The film's plot and characters are adapted from three novels in author Patrick O'Brian 's Aubrey–Maturin series , which includes 20 completed novels of Jack Aubrey 's ...
Peter Lindsay Weir AM (/ w ɪər / WEER; born 21 August 1944) is an Australian retired film director.He is known for directing films crossing various genres over forty years with films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Gallipoli (1981), The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), Witness (1985), Dead Poets Society (1989), Fearless (1993), The Truman Show (1998), Master and Commander: The Far ...
Peter Weir is an Australian film director.. He was a leading figure in the Australian New Wave cinema movement (1970–1990), with films such as the mystery drama Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), the supernatural thriller The Last Wave (1977) and the historical drama Gallipoli (1981).
Peter Weir directed the film, w. ... draw on the first book in Patrick O’Brian’s beloved Aubrey–Maturin series. Those novels inspired the 2003 epic “Master and Commander: The Far Side of ...
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 adventure film directed by Peter Weir.He and screenwriter John Collee based the film on several novels in the Aubrey–Maturin series written by Patrick O'Brian.
In 2006, he played the domineering husband of wartime diarist Nella Last, in the TV drama Housewife, 49. [9] His film credits include John le Carré's The Russia House, [9] Patriot Games, [9] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, [9] Elizabeth: The Golden Age alongside Cate Blanchett, [9] and as John Lennon's Uncle George in Nowhere ...
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His recent films include Shiner (2000, directed by John Irvin), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001, directed by Stephen Whittaker), Last Orders (2001, directed by Fred Schepisi), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003, directed by Peter Weir), Things To Do Before You're 30 (2005, directed by Simon Shore), Stardust ...