7 Best Candidates To Direct A Shadow Of The Colossus Movie

4. John Hillcoat

Australian music video director John Hillcoat made his film debut in 2005 with the acclaimed meta-Western The Proposition. His darkly lyrical vision, strengthened by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis moody notes, was enough for Hollywood to hand him over the adaptation of Cormack McCarthys masterful post-apocalyptic novel The Road.

Hillcoat excels in placing man into vast, desolate landscape. Desperation and loneliness are commonplace in his work. With a tendency for gracefully using lengthy moments of cinematic silence, he has accomplished uniquely bleak yet poetic atmospheres. In The Road, a father and his son wander along a barren, devastated earth, in search of the sea. The fathers persistence to bring his son to safety in a deadly, cannibal inhabited land, parallels Wanders dangerous roaming through the wastelands of the Colossi, in order to save Mono, pinpointing that Hillcoat will have a vital comprehension of the material.

He has yet to take over a big-budgeted, SFX-heavy project and Shadow of the Colossus is perhaps the most fitting to his idiosyncrasy.