Mark Palansky is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He got his
start working as an assistant director on titan film productions such
as Armageddon and Pearl Harbor. He then worked as a second unit
director on The Island and The Amityville Horror.His directorial debut
was a 2001 short film called The Same starring Josh Hartnett. The
short film was later featured on in the 2005 compilation film Stories
of Lost Souls. Palansky made his big screen debut in 2006 with the
modern day fairytale Penelope, starring Christina Ricci as a young
blueblood cursed with a pig snout. The film received mixed reviews
from critics.In October 2009, it was announced that Palansky was set
to direct for Sony Pictures Entertainment an action-adventure film
Iron Jack, a project that sparked a bidding war in 2008. The story
takes place in the 1930s and tells of a renowned novelist and his
quest to unearth a legendary treasure. Sony picked up up-and-coming
screenwriter Johnny Rosenthal's spec script for $1.25 million against
$2 million, beating offers made from CBS Films, MGM and Spyglass. No
production schedule was announced for the film and no further
development has been made as of January 2019.In a 2008 interview,
Palansky revealed that he was working on two other projects with actor
Peter Dinklage. These were Mendel's Dwarf, described as a scientific
love story, and Hop Frog, based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe
The latter was set to start principal photography in the second half
of 2016, with the title changed to The Jester. In 2017, he directed
Dinklage in the science fiction-drama Rememory. That same year, he
directed a two-part episode of the Netflix series A Series of
Unfortunate Events, based on the book series by Lemony Snicket.
start working as an assistant director on titan film productions such
as Armageddon and Pearl Harbor. He then worked as a second unit
director on The Island and The Amityville Horror.His directorial debut
was a 2001 short film called The Same starring Josh Hartnett. The
short film was later featured on in the 2005 compilation film Stories
of Lost Souls. Palansky made his big screen debut in 2006 with the
modern day fairytale Penelope, starring Christina Ricci as a young
blueblood cursed with a pig snout. The film received mixed reviews
from critics.In October 2009, it was announced that Palansky was set
to direct for Sony Pictures Entertainment an action-adventure film
Iron Jack, a project that sparked a bidding war in 2008. The story
takes place in the 1930s and tells of a renowned novelist and his
quest to unearth a legendary treasure. Sony picked up up-and-coming
screenwriter Johnny Rosenthal's spec script for $1.25 million against
$2 million, beating offers made from CBS Films, MGM and Spyglass. No
production schedule was announced for the film and no further
development has been made as of January 2019.In a 2008 interview,
Palansky revealed that he was working on two other projects with actor
Peter Dinklage. These were Mendel's Dwarf, described as a scientific
love story, and Hop Frog, based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe
The latter was set to start principal photography in the second half
of 2016, with the title changed to The Jester. In 2017, he directed
Dinklage in the science fiction-drama Rememory. That same year, he
directed a two-part episode of the Netflix series A Series of
Unfortunate Events, based on the book series by Lemony Snicket.
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