Vincenzo Natali

Vincenzo Natali (born 6 January 1969) He is of Italian and English descent. His cinematic influences included Samuel Beckett, David Cronenberg, and Terry Gilliam.

Career Natali's directing debut came in 1997, when he directed Cube which he also co-wrote. The film became a success worldwide, especially in Japan and France, grossing over $10 million in the latter country, and breaking box office records for a Canadian film. At the 19th Genie Awards, the film received five nominations, and also won the award for Best Canadian First Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival. After this success, Natali went on to direct Cypher (2002) and Nothing (2003).

Following the June 2010 release of Splice (2009), Natali's next efforts were expected to be an adaptation of J. G. Ballard's 1975 novel High Rise and a 3D adaptation of the Len Wein/Berni Wrightson comic book character Swamp Thing, for producer Joel Silver. A May 2010 item in The Hollywood Reporter, however, announced that Natali was to replace Joseph Kahn as director of the highly anticipated adaptation of cyberpunk author William Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer.

Natali was nominated for the 4th Annual Splatcademy Awards under the category "Best Director" presented by Cadaver Lab for his work Splice. In 2013 his series Darknet, an adaptation of the Japanese series Tori Hada, began airing on Super Channel in Canada. In 2014, he directed the episodes "Su-zakana" and "Naka-choko" of the second season of the crime drama series Hannibal and in 2015 the episodes "Antipasto", "Primavera" and "Secondo" of the third season of the same TV series. in 2015, he also directed the second episode (entitled "Simon") of the first season of the American supernatural drama television series The Returned. In 2016, he directed the fourth episode ("Dissonance Theory") of the HBO series Westworld. In 2017, he directed the fifth episode ("Lemon Scented You") of the Starz series American Gods. He directed a pilot for a new Tremors TV series starring Kevin Bacon reprising his role from the 1990 film but it was not picked up by SyFy as a series.

A television adaptation of William Gibson's The Peripheral was put into development in April 2018 by Amazon, with Natali among the executive producers. Natali directed the show's pilot, plus three other episodes of the first season.

He directed the last two episodes of the first season for the Locke & Key TV series, distributed by Netflix.

In 2024, he was awarded the Trailblazer Award at the 28th Fantasia International Film Festival.

Filmography Short film Year Title Director Writer Notes 1996 Elevated 2006 Quartier de la Madeleine Segment of Paris, je t'aime 2014 U is for Utopia Segment of ABCs of Death 2

Executive producer Eyes on the Road (2006) Cube (2021)

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Documentary

Television Year Title Episode 1996 Space Cases "The Sporting Kind" 1998 PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal "Pentimento" 1998–1999 Earth: Final Conflict "Payback""Friendly Fire" 2013 Darknet Episode 1, also executive producer 2014–2015 Hannibal "Su-zakana""Naka-choko""Antipasto""Primavera""Secondo""Dolce"2014 Hemlock Grove "Gone Sis" Ascension "Chapter Two: Part 1"2015 The Returned "Simon" Orphan Black "Insolvent Phantom of Tomorrow" 2015–2016 The Strain "Fallen Light""The Night Train""Do or Die"2016 Wayward Pines "City Upon a Hill" Luke Cage "Step in the Arena" 2016–2018 Westworld "Dissonance Theory""Reunion" 2017 American Gods "Lemon Scented You" 2018 Lost in Space "Eulogy"2020 Locke & Key "Echoes""Crown of Shadows" The Stand "The Walk""The Stand" 2022 Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities "The Graveyard Rats" The Peripheral "Pilot", also executive producer 2025 The Copenhagen Test "Looking Glass""Allegiance" 2026 VisionQuest TBA, post-production 2027 The Last of Us TBA (season 3), filming