Wolfgang Petersen

Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker whose World War II submarine epic “Das Boot” propelled him into a blockbuster Hollywood career that included the ...

“The power of water is unbelievable,” Petersen said in a 2009 interview. The big-budget “Poseidon,” a high-priced flop for Warner Bros., was Petersen’s last Hollywood film. With a budget of $120 million, “The Perfect Storm” made $328.7 million. “Air Force One,” with $315 million in global box office, was a hit, too, but Petersen went for something even bigger in 2000′s “The Perfect Storm,” the true-life tale of a Massachusetts fishing boat lost at sea. Arguably Petersen’s finest Hollywood film came almost a decade later in 1993′s “In the Line of Fire,” starring Clint Eastwood as a Secret Service agent protecting the president of the United States from John Malkovich’s assassin. Petersen, born in the north German port city of Emden, made two features before his 1982 breakthrough, “Das Boot,” then the most expensive movie in German film history.

The German filmmaker, who was 81, had been battling pancreatic cancer and died at his home in Los Angeles, California, on Friday.

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German director Wolfgang Petersen – who made Das Boot, Air Force One, The NeverEnding Story and more – has died aged 81.

[In the Line of Fire](/movies/in-the-line-of-fire) with Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich in 1993. [The anticipated Spider-Man Remastered PC release is almost here and we got the chance to test it on PC, PS5, and Steam Deck. A multi-platform game running on a custom version of Unreal Engine 4.27, The Callisto Protocol release is set to land on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One and PC in December 2022.The technology and quality on offer was very impressive. This preview, aided by an interview with the developer, gives us a deeper insight into what we can expect from the Dead of Space come December.](/videos/the-callisto-protocol-performance-preview) However, his first big success came with the West German war movie, Das Boot, which earned him two Oscar nominations at the 55th Academy Awards in 1983. My memory is of a man full of joie de vivre who was doing what he most loved to do.”

German director Wolfgang Petersen achieved international fame with films "Das Boot," "Outbreak" and "Air Force One," among many others.

In the 2000s, Petersen directed Clooney in “The Perfect Storm” and Pitt in “Troy.” “Even though the script was thrilling and incredibly intense, I remember a lot of laughs, especially in the scenes around the huge table in the War Room,” she wrote. He transitioned to Hollywood action and disaster movies in the 1990s, working with Eastwood and John Malkovich in assassination thriller “In The Line of Fire,” and directing Hoffman in pandemic-themed “Outbreak.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker whose World War II submarine epic “Das Boot” propelled him into a blockbuster Hollywood career that ...

“The power of water is unbelievable,” Petersen said in a 2009 interview. The big-budget “Poseidon,” a high-priced flop for Warner Bros., was Petersen’s last Hollywood film. With a budget of $120 million, “The Perfect Storm” made $328.7 million. “Air Force One,” with $315 million in global box office, was a hit, too, but Petersen went for something even bigger in 2000′s “The Perfect Storm,” the true-life tale of a Massachusetts fishing boat lost at sea. His final film was 2016′s “Four Against the Bank” a German film that remade Petersen’s own 1976 German TV movie. “The film is rooted in a profound pessimism about what’s unfortunately happened to this country in the last 30 years. Arguably Petersen’s finest Hollywood film came almost a decade later in 1993′s “In the Line of Fire,” starring Clint Eastwood as a Secret Service agent protecting the president of the United States from John Malkovich’s assassin. “When John’s character says, ‘Nothing they told me was true and there’s nothing left worth fighting for,’ I think his words will resonate for many people,” Petersen told The Los Angeles Times. Petersen, born in the north German port city of Emden, made two features before his 1982 breakthrough, “Das Boot,” then the most expensive movie in German film history. Eastwood met with Petersen, checked out his work and gave him the job. In it, Petersen marshalled his substantial skill in building suspense for a more open-air but just as taut thriller that careened across rooftops and past Washington D.C. “We kids were looking for more glamorous dreams than rebuilding a destroyed country though, so we were really ready for it when American pop culture came to Germany.

“The Das Boot bloke dies” — there's a good chance that this will be the gist of many a Wolfgang Petersen obituary. It's understandable.

It was pancreatic cancer that would cause the credits to role on the life of Wolfgang Petersen. “It’s almost impossible to explain just how challenging it must have been for him to come out here after he made his masterpiece [Das Boot] and deal with the politics and the bullshit and the egos involved in big-time ’90s Hollywood action cinema. Pandemic drama Outbreak (1995), president-in-peril picture Air Force One (1997) and trouble at sea epic The Perfect Storm (2000) led studio executive Barry Isaacson to explain, “He was the perfect studio director of his era; technically proficient, a natural storyteller, able to accommodate the big stars and the big money without compromising his vision.” It’s really hard to explain just how big a deal Das Boot was in the 1980s. Indeed, three years would pass before he was again hired by a film studio, this time to make The Consequence, a controversial picture about a prison guard’s son, played by Ernst Hannawald, who falls in love with an inmate, again played by Prochnow. “The Das Boot bloke dies” — there’s a good chance that this will be the gist of many a Wolfgang Petersen obituary.

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'People' reports that Petersen died at home with his wife, Maria Antoinette, on Aug. 12 due to pancreatic cancer. He also leaves behind a son, ...

'Air Force One, Petersen previously said he was "very proud" of 'The Perfect Storm,' which brought in over $328 million at the box office. He went on to direct other hit movies such as 'The NeverEnding Story,' 'In the Line of Fire,' 'Outbreak', 'Air Force One, 'The Perfect Storm' and 'Troy'. Wolfgang Petersen, 'The Perfect Storm,' 'Air Force One' director, dead at 81

Wolfgang Peterson ("Das Boot"), who directed Brad Pitt ("Troy"), George Clooney ("Perfect Storm") and Harrison Ford ("Air Force One"), is dead at 81.

ACTING ... NO acting ... acting ... Though critically maligned, it became one of the highest-grossing films of 2004, with a worldwide box office of nearly $500 million. "He was protective and kind toward me and I will cherish my memories of him forever." "That line is like Schwarzenegger's 'I'll be back' line in 'Terminator.' It didn't look like much on the page," says Marlowe. "I worked my (butt) off for that role." Wolfgang was so good at understanding those emotional moments and the understated heroic personality." As Pitt told USA TODAY this year. With a budget of nearly $185 million, "Troy" was one of the most expensive movies produced at the time. "Wolfgang was one of the first directors to take a chance on me," Kruger said in a statement to USA TODAY. Petersen went on to direct Clint Eastwood as a Secret Service agent in the 1993 thriller "In the Line of Fire" and Dustin Hoffman in the 1995 global pandemic virus thriller "Outbreak."

From the acclaimed Das Boot to the action-packed Air Force One, the German filmmaker leaves an impressive legacy.

(The posters emphasized this element, marketing the film with extreme close-ups of Ford clutching a machine gun above the “just-take-all-my-money-now” tagline of “Harrison Ford is the President of the United States.”) Air Force One (1997) [Air Force One](https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/air-force-one-1997), the second-biggest commercial hit of Petersen’s career, is also his most popcorn-y. Fueling the mid-flight tension is a dizzying B-story on the ground, as the Vice President (Glenn Close, in a full-throated performance) struggles to navigate White House politics while fielding demands from Russian terrorist Gary Oldman to release imprisoned General Radek (Das Boot’s Jürgen Prochnow). As effective as he is with exciting chase scenes and boots-on-the-ground detective work, the director truly shines with his execution of the smaller, more intimate (and sometimes funny) moments between Frank and his love interest, Agent Raines (Russo)—the best of example of which is a second-act confession where Frank, backlit by a sad nightscape outside his downtown Los Angeles hotel room, lets out 30 years of built-up regret and grief by sharing with Raines what he saw that fateful day in Dallas on Nov. Jeff Maguire’s safe tumbler of a script (rumored to have been given a dialogue polish by Aaron Sorkin) clicks into place so snugly that one would assume that all a director has to do is show up, turn on the camera, and collect an easy paycheck. [The NeverEnding Story](https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/the-neverending-story-1984). A guilt-stricken Frank was on duty in Dallas when JFK was killed, and the three shots that rang out that day in Daley Plaza still echo within him as he races to stop Mitch before he finds himself standing over the grave of another dead president. [The Consequence ](https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/the-consequence-1977)(or Die Konsequenz in its native Germany) is a black and white, emotionally raw piece of LGBTQIA+ filmmaking. [In The Line Of Fire](https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/in-the-line-of-fire-1993) starring Clint Eastwood, Rene Russo, and John Malkovich. (I mean, the guy made a CG tidal wave a star in 2000’s The Perfect Storm, the biggest financial success of his career). Based on Alexander Ziegler’s 1975 autobiographical novel of the same name, Petersen’s stirring adaptation centers on a gay prisoner’s love for his warden’s younger son and the homophobia that they endure in a world that won’t accept their relationship. Instead of relegating these men to a glorified footnote in the pages of WWII history, the director explores the emotional toll of their mission while rattling the audience’s bones like depth charges.