Die One other Day director Lee Tamahori has died peacefully at residence on the age of 75, his household confirmed in a press release. He had been battling Parkinson’s Illness for a while. In a touching tribute the New Zealand born filmmaker’s family members wrote: “His legacy endures together with his whānau, his mokopuna, each filmmaker he impressed, each boundary he broke, and each story he informed together with his genius eye and sincere coronary heart. A charismatic chief and fierce artistic spirit, Lee championed Māori expertise each on and off display screen. He in the end returned residence to inform tales grounded in whakapapa and id, with Mahana and his newest movie The Convert, reaffirming his deep connection to Aotearoa. We’ve misplaced an immense artistic spirit.”
Lee directed Pierce Brosnan in his fourth and closing outing as James Bond in 2002 in Die One other Day. It was the twentieth film total within the lengthy working franchise and have become the sixth highest grossing film of that yr. Hollywood famous person Halle Berry took on the position of “Bond lady” co-starring as Giacinta “Jinx” Johnson. Pop music famous person Madonna additionally had a cameo within the film and provided the theme tune.
Having shot to fame in 1994 when his directorial debut, As soon as Had been Warriors was a essential and business hit, on the time changing into New Zealand’s highest grossing movie of all time, he discovered himself in demand in Hollywood.
Previous to taking the helm of Bond he had labored on movies together with 1997’s The Edge, which starred Anthony Hopkins and 2001’s Alongside Got here a Spider, which starred Morgan Freeman.
Different notable motion pictures included the sequel to 2002’s XXX in 2005 titled XXX: State of the Union starring Ice Dice and Willem Dafoe. In 2011 he directed The Satan’s Double starring Dominic Cooper, which was a dramatisation of Latif Yahia’s claims that he was pressured to grow to be physique double to Uday Hussein, son of Saddam.
His closing movie the historic drama The Convert, starring Man Pearce and Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, hit screens in 2022.
As information of his dying broke followers paid tribute to the filmmaker. “Kiwi Legend R.I.L Lee Tamahori you had been a unprecedented man along with your skills a lot love and condolences to your whanau,” one wrote on Fb.
“I cherished his directorial enterprise like Die one other Day and we had been warriors ….RIP,” one other added.
“Moe mai ra. A completely enormous loss. Ideas n prayers together with his whanau and prolonged xx,” a 3rd penned.
In the meantime a fourth chimed in: “Gosh, how unhappy. He was wonderful directing that film. Honest condolences to whanau and pals. RIP Lee Tamahori.”
