Brian Taylor

Brian Taylor grew up in the suburban wastelands of Southern California. After a gloriously well spent youth traveling around the world in punk bands he took an abrupt change of direction in the early aughts, enrolling in a ten month film program to study camera. Brian wrote/shot/edited what may well have been the first full HD student film, the acclaimed Charles Bukowski adaptation The Man Who Loved Elevators. He shot two indie features as a DP before teaming up with Mark Neveldine to form the gonzo camera/directing duo neveldine/taylor. The team signed with @radicalmedia in 2004 as commercial directors, knocking out campaigns for Nike, Powerade, Budweiser, etc. before setting sights on the big screen. Crank (2006) was written as a guerrilla attack on studio filmmaking. "If they love the script they've got to hire us, because there's no one else that could possibly make the thing," said Brian at the time. The film spawned a sequel, Crank: High Voltage (2009) that Quentin Tarantino ca