The 34-year-old half-Brazilian writer-director-producer, whose credits include the Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard film Afterschooland the Sundance Film Festival filmsSimon Killer and Christine, has signed with William Morris Endeavor (WME).
Campos has been busy on the television side of late, directing and executive producing USA’s The Sinner starring Jessica Biel in addition to Netflix’s The Punisher, on which he directed an episode in Season 1 and is helming the first two episodes of Season 2.
As a producer, his credits include Martha Macy May Marlene, James White, The Eyes of My Mother and Piercing.
Upcoming, Campos has signed on to rewrite and direct the upcoming Fox Searchlight horror film Splitfoot, and is aboard to direct a prequel to The Omen for 20th Century Fox.
Campos, who had been at UTA, continues to be repped by manager Melissa Breaux at Management 360 and attorneys Peter Nelson and Joel Vanderkloot.
It may turn out to be a scary First for Antonio Campos…
The half-Brazilian American filmmaker is in talks to direct the supernatural horror thriller The First Omen for 20th Century Fox.
It’s a prequel to The Omen, which is being planned for release some forty years after the original was first released.
Campos most recently directed the Sundance Film Festival movie Christine.
The original movie starred the great Gregory Peck as an ambassador who comes to believe that his 5-year-old son may be the living embodiment of the Antichrist.
The movie, directed by Richard Donner, was one of the biggest hits of the year and considered one of the scariest movies of the decade. It introduced Damien, the name of the son, into the pop culture lexicon, and preyed on fears of baby swapping and evil nannies.
Omen spawned two sequels and a series of novels. Fox remade the movie once before, in a 2006 iteration directed by John Moore and starring Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles.
Fox is currently airing a TV version of The Omen titled Damien, helmed by The Walking Dead‘s Glen Mazzara.
Ben Jacoby wrote the script for the prequel.
Campos is a player in the indie sphere and was a producer on movies such as Martha Marcy May Marlene. He previously directed 2012’s Simon Killer. His drama Christine starred Rebecca Hall and Michael C. Hall and premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where distribution outfit The Orchard snapped up domestic rights.
He’s already proved himself to be a Sundance Film Festival darling… And, now Antonio Campos is set to charm audiences at this year’s AFI Fest.
The 29-year-old half-Brazilian screenwriter/director has been added by theAmerican Film Institute to the list of rising stars participating in AFI Fest 2012’s Young Americans and New Auteurs sections at this year’s festival.
Campos’ Simon Killer will form part of the New Auteurs section, whichhighlights first and second-time feature film directors from around the world.
Simon Killer centers on a young American man who falls in love with a French prostitute. Camposcalls Simon a “character study” of male angst and utterly reflective of his ingrained love for being frightened as an audience member.
Other Latino filmmakers participating at this year’s AFI Fest include Michel Franco of Mexico and Antonio Mendez Esparza of Spain, Mexico and the U.S.
The films in the Young Americans section are eligible for an Audience Awardwhilethe films in the New Auteurs section are eligible for a Grand Jury Award.
This year’s AFI Fest will take place on November 1-8 in Hollywood.
Here’s the complete list of participants:
YOUNG AMERICANS: All The Light In The Sky: DIR/SCR Joe Swanberg. Ape: DIR/SCR Joel Potrykus. Electrick Children: DIR/SCR Rebecca Thomas. The International Sign For Choking: DIR/SCR Zach Weintraub. Kid-Thing: DIR/SCR David Zellner. Only The Young: DIR Jason Tippet, Elizabeth Mims. Pearblossom Highway: DIR Mike Ott. SCR Mike Ott, Atsuko Okatsuka. Somebody Up There Likes Me: DIR/SCR Robert Byington. Starlet: DIR Sean Baker. SCR Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch. Sun Don’t Shine: DIR/SCR Amy Seimetz. Tchoupitoulas: DIR Turner Ross, Bill Ross.
NEW AUTEURS: After Lucia: DIR/SCR Michel Franco. Mexico. Antiviral: DIR/SCR Brandon Cronenberg. Canda/USA. Clip: DIR/SCR Maja Miloš. Serbia. Eat Sleep Die: DIR/SCR Gabriela Pichler. Sweden. Here And There: DIR/SCR Antonio Mendez Esparza. Mexico/Spain/USA. A Hijacking: DIR/SCR Tobiaas Lindholm. Denmark. In The Fog: DIR Sergei Loznitsa. Germany/Russia/Belarus/The Netherlands/Latvia. Not In Tel Aviv: DIR/SCR Nony Geffen. Israel. Simon Killer: DIR/SCR Antonio Campos. USA.
