Crew
Martyn Pick (Director)
Martyn Pick's credits include the 2009 film The Age of Stupid as animation director; London 2012, the promotional film for the 2012 Olympics; and the celebrated BBC promotional trailers for the Euro 2004 soccer tournament; and the Budweiser 2001 NBA commercials. Martyn is recognised for his distinctive fusion of live-action and animation, and the fluid, painterly style of his film-making.
David Kerney (Producer)
Head of Production for Codex Pictures Ltd, David Kerney is an experienced media accountant, working with such companies as Working Title, Zenith, Universal, 20th Century Fox and, on the original BIONICLE ® films, for the LEGO Company.
Bob Thompson (Producer)
Bob Thompson is best-known for co-creating the hugely successful BIONICLE ® IP for for the LEGO Company and producing the original multi award-winning BIONICLE ® movies.
Dan Abnett (Screenwriter)
Dan Abnett is a best-selling author, with more than 25 titles for Games Workshop's Black Library to his credit, and sales in excess of 1.2m copies. He also writes regularly for 2000AD, Marvel Comics and DC Comics, and has recently seen publication of the first of three novels for Harper Collins' new sci-fi, fantasy and horror imprint, Angry Robot.
Roddy McManus (Co-Producer)
Roddy McManus is responsible for creative affairs at Pop6, producing, writing and directing film, television and multimedia. He has held key production and management positions with Discreet Logic, Softimage, Microsoft and The National Film Board of Canada. Roddy began his career as a musician and recording artist for CBS / Sony BMG Music.
Michael Carter (Associate Producer)
Michael Carter is an award-winning Technical Producer, specialising in CGI production pipeline design and implementation. Years in advance of a production, Michael works to enhance the creative and visual story through the creation and development of new digital CGI cinematic techniques. He has held key positions at Aardman Animation, Alliance Atlantis/Calibre Digital Pictures and Improv Technologies and was previously Professor of the School of Animation, Art and Design at Sheridan Institute.
Alexander Lentjes (Line Producer)
Alexander has worked as animation producer, director and stereographer on international animated feature film and television productions. A specialist in 3D stereoscopic animation production, Alexander is versed in a wide variety of animation software and hardware applications, from 2D and 3D designing, modelling and rigging, through 2D and 3D animation to compositing, colour correction and digital cinema delivery.
Dan Fausett (Head of Storyboards)
An highly-experienced storyboard artist with more than 100 movie and TV credits, Dan Fausett has worked on productions including the original BIONICLE ® trilogy of DVDs, Space Jam and the X-Men TV series.
Cast
Terence Stamp (Severus)
Terence Stamp was born in 1939 in London, England. His first big break was in 1962, when his performance as a naive sailor in Peter Ustinov's Billy Budd earned him an Academy Award nomination. The following year he went to Hollywood to play the title role in William Wyler's The Collector, for which he was awarded Best Actor at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.
John Hurt (Carnak)
Born in 1940 in Derbyshire, England, John Hurt studied acting at RADA. For nearly half a century, Hurt has acted in numerous international film, television and theatre productions, among them The Naked Civil Servant, I, Claudius, A Man for All Seasons, The Caretaker, Man and Superman, Midnight Express and The Elephant Man, earning Oscar nominations and BAFTAs for the latter two.
Sean Pertwee (Proteus)
Sean Pertwee was born in London, England in 1964 into a family of actors; most notably, his father was former Doctor Who star Jon Pertwee. After graduating from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Sean toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years, and, until 2003, co-owned the Natural Nylon film production company.
Steve Waddington (Verenor)
Born in Yorkshire, England in 1968, Steven Waddington trained at East 15. A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Waddington made his screen debut playing the title role in Derek Jarman's award-winning film Edward II and he has since starred in numerous other films including The Last of the Mohicans, Carrington, Face, Sleepy Hollow and The Parole Officer.
Donald Sumpter (Pythol)
Donald Sumpter was born in 1943 in Northamptonshire, England. In a long and illustrious career stretching back to the mid-1960s, Donald's many television credits include Game of Thrones, Into the Storm and Einstein and Eddington, two series of Being Human, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Doctor Who, The Buddha of Suburbia, Poirot - The ABC Murders, The Blackheath Poisonings and Our Friends in the North as well as adaptations of Dickens' novels Bleak House, Great Expectations and Nicholas Nickleby.
Johnny Harris (Nidon)
Born in London, England in 1973, Johnny Harris' first screen appearance was in 2000 playing the lead role in the acclaimed short film Big. Making his mainstream film debut in Gangster No. 1, his breakthrough came in the award-winning London to Brighton. His other credits include Atonement, Daylight Robbery, RocknRolla, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus and Dorian Gray, as well as many television appearances.
Ben Bishop (Crastor)
Ben Bishop was born in 1976 in Hampshire, England. His recent stage commitments include two seasons at Shakespeare`s Globe Theatre in London and the ENO production Gaddafi. His film credits include Terkel in Trouble, The Little Polar Bear 2, My Last Five Girlfriends, Don't Look Back!, The Libertine, Sense and Sensibility and Bad Call, winner of a Sony Short Film award.
Christopher Finney (Boreas)
Born in Cheshire, England in 1977, Christopher Finney's extensive talents as a voiceover artist have been employed in numerous TV and radio commercials; specialising in animated characters, he has, among other things, brought to life a grain of rice for Uncle Ben's and the Raspberry and Blackcurrant characters for Vimto!
Gary Martin (Hypax)
A highly experienced voiceover artist, heard regularly on film trailers and featured in over 2500 cartoons, Gary Martin is most familiar as the Sugar Puffs Honey Monster. Born in London, England, he made his West End debut in Jesus Christ Superstar and has appeared in The Rocky Horror Show, Cats and Grease.
