M.J. Bassett

MJ Bassett is a feature film and television writer/director. As a teenager in the UK, MJ's career started as a wildlife photographer and documentary maker, subsequently becoming an on-camera host of various nature and science programs before writing and directing the feature film DEATHWATCH. Starring Jamie Bell, Matthew Rhys and Andy Serkis it was an original horror movie set in the trenches of World War Following the success of Deathwatch, MJ directed the horror feature WILDERNESS with Toby Kebbell and Sean Pertwee, and then adapted and directed the heroic fantasy adventure SOLOMON KANE, starring James Purefoy, Max Von Sydow and Pete Postlethwaite based on the classic fantasy novellas by 'Conan' creator Robert E. Howard. MJ followed that with the video game adaptation SILENT HILL:REVELATION, shot in 3D and starring Sean Bean, Adelaide Clemens and Kit Harrington and producer by Samuel Hadida. In 2013, MJ began directing in television. Initially guest directing episodes of the Cinema