Acclaimed director James Foley has died at age 71. A consultant for the Foley household confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the filmmaker handed “peacefully in his sleep earlier this week following a years-long wrestle with mind most cancers.” It’s unclear when Foley was recognized and for a way lengthy his sickness was.
Foley most famously helmed the 1992 movie adaptation of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross,” starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, and Kevin Spacey. Foley would later reunite with Spacey for 12 episodes of Netflix’s first-ever collection, “Home of Playing cards.”
Foley made his function directorial debut in 1984 with “Reckless” starring Daryl Hannah and Aidan Quinn. He was greatest recognized for working within the home thriller style, regardless of defying filmmaker labels. His options embrace directing Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon in “Concern,” Halle Berry and Bruce Willis in “Good Stranger,” and “Fifty Shades Darker” and “Fifty Shades Freed” starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan.
As for TV, Foley directed episodes of “Home of Playing cards,” “Hannibal,” “Billions,” and “Twin Peaks.” He additionally famously helmed Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach” music video, together with the music movies for “Gown You Up” “Stay to Inform,” “True Blue,” “Who’s That Woman,” and “The Look of Love.”
Foley advised The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 that he most well-liked to work in a litany of genres and mediums. “The factor I might say I least like is there may be an comprehensible tendency to, in fact, pigeonhole any individual or determine them as, ‘He does this sort of film, so if we’re making that sort of film, we must always get him and he’ll make it like the opposite ones he’s made,’” he mentioned. “That’s of no curiosity to me, personally, to repeat myself. So I’ve at all times simply adopted my nostril, for higher or for worse, generally for worse.”
He added, “What’s greatest and what’s worst [about the industry] are nearly the identical to me. As a result of what’s worst is you get pigeonholed and what’s greatest is I haven’t been. It implies that I’m nonetheless making films, regardless of hopping everywhere, so there’s a wonderful thing about Hollywood the place it’s not so purely linear, when it comes to a director having successful critically and commercially and persevering with that in an unbroken stream, which is true of nobody, however the thought that you would be able to make missteps after which redeem your self by doing one thing else and then you definitely’re resurrected. What’s horrible is you’re buried so quick when you may have a misstep or flop however there’s resurrection probably and that’s the better part.”