Chris Gorak is an American film director who started as an art director and production designer. He directed the 2006 film ''

Right at Your Door ''Right at Your Door'' is a 2006 American thriller film about a couple and follows the events surrounding them when multiple dirty bombs detonate in Los Angeles. Chris Gorak both wrote the screenplay and directed the film in his writing and direc ...

'' and the 2011 film '' The Darkest Hour''. Gorak began working in the film industry in the 1990s as an art director. In the 2000s, he worked on several films as a production designer before becoming a film director.

Background

Gorak attended

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where he earned an

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degree. He changed his career to film and worked as an art director for directors like David Fincher, the

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, and

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. When Gorak worked as production designer on the 2004 film '' The Clearing'', he expressed afterward to its producers interest in film direction. They challenged him to provide something viable, and he wrote a script for an intended short film titled ''Right at Your Door''. He eventually directed the 2006 feature thriller film ''Right at Your Door'', which he said was reflective of authorities being impotent in a world after the

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. He had initially worried about his film being too similar to ''

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'' but found inspiration in filming on a low budget. After ''Right at Your Door'', he planned to write and direct a cop drama titled ''SIS''. The film was not realized, and Gorak instead directed the alien invasion film ''The Darkest Hour'', released in 2011. In October 2013, Paramount Pictures bought Gorak's science fiction spec script ''Attach'' and began to develop a film, which Gorak is attached to direct. By February 2017, ''Attach'' was no longer under Paramount, and actor Alex Russell was cast to star in the film. Gorak is a member of the

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Filmography

Art director *'' Tombstone'' (1993) *'' The Grass Harp'' (1995) *''

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'' (1997) *'' Music from Another Room'' (1998) *''

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'' (1998) *''

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'' (1999) *'' The Man Who Wasn't There'' (2001) *'' Minority Report'' (2002) (supervising art director) Production designer *'' The Clearing'' (2004) *'' Blade: Trinity'' (2004) *''

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'' (2005) Film director *''

'' (2006) (also writer) *'' The Darkest Hour'' (2011)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gorak, Chris American film directors American art directors American production designers Living people Tulane University alumni American screenwriters Year of birth missing (living people)