Garrick Hagon

A visual essay by writer and filmmaker Jon Spira exploring the evolution of Silent Running's screenplay

A team of American parapsychologists travel to Wales to conduct a study of Margam Castle, one of the UK's most haunted buildings.

A documentary about ten very different lives connected by having appeared onscreen wearing masks or helmets in Star Wars.

Back in January 2015 I had the pleasure of talking to Garrick Hagon aka Biggs about his role in Star Wars.

恋人サラ（メアリー=ルイーズ・パーカー）と一緒に生活し、諜報（ちょうほう）活動から縁遠い毎日を過ごしていた元CIAのフランク（ブルース・ウィリス）。しかし、かつての仲間マーヴィン（ジョン・マルコヴィッチ）が関わった小型核爆弾をめぐる冷戦時代の極秘計画が原因となったトラブルが持ち上がる。解決の手掛かりを追い求め、フランクはサラ、マーヴィンと共にヨーロッパへと足を運ぶが……。

監督はフィリップ・シュテルツェル、主演はアーロン・エッカートとオルガ・キュリレンコ。人生を抹殺され陰謀に巻き込まれた主人公が、すべてを賭けて巨大組織に挑むアクション大作。元CIAエージェントのベン・ローガンは、ある日勤務先の会社が忽然と消えてしまうが、コインロッカーに隠された書類から自分が暗殺者リストに掲載されていることがわかる。ローガンは不法滞在者となるも捜査を続行、ある機密書類を手に入れるのだが、娘のエイミーが組織に誘拐されてしまう。

科学者のマーガレットとトムは、超常現象の科学的解明の研究に没頭していた。そんなある日、30年前に引退したはずの超能力者サイモンが復帰するというニュースが世間を騒がせる。マーガレットはその昔、サイモンの超能力のうそを暴くため彼に挑んだ経験があり……。

A modern take on the classic fairytale, Alice in Wonderland, set in South East England.An American law student in London. Knocked down by a black cab, she wakes with amnesia in a world that's a million miles from home - Wonderland. We follow her adventures as she's dragged through an underworld filled with twisted individuals and the lowest low-lifers, by the enigmatic cab driver, Whitey. She needs to find out who she is, where she's from and use what wits she has left to get back home in one piece. As her journey progresses she discovers nothing is what it seems, realizes that fate and life are terminally entwined, and finds true love lurking in the unlikeliest place.

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.

A westerner named Casey, studying Ninjutsu in Japan, is asked by the Sensei to return to New York to protect the legendary Yoroi Bitsu, an armored chest that contains the weapons of the last Koga Ninja.

A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.

The true story of the legendary German Shepherd who was found by American pilot Lee Duncun in France during World War I, and later became the most famous animal star in Hollywood history.

Nathan becomes a super hero style of character in people's dreams to rescue them from their nightmares, only to realize he's not the only one. Not only that, but he has been manipulated to become one by them in order to help these good guys defeat a new foe, the Nemesis. Nathan is reluctant at first but comes around to figure out exactly where the Nemesis is coming from, and why, and how they might be able to stop it.

1915年、フランス・パリの貧しい家庭に生まれたエディット・ジョヴァンナ・ガション。母は路上で歌を歌い、日銭を稼ぐ毎日だった。その後、祖母が経営する娼館に預けられた彼女は、娼婦ティティーヌたちに可愛がられ束の間の安らぎを得る。やがて兵役から戻った父に引き取られると、路上で大道芸をする父の手伝いをする中で、自らも人前で歌うことを覚えるのだった。そして1935年、路上で歌を歌い日銭を稼いでいた彼女は、パリ市内の名門クラブのオーナー、ルイ・ルプレにスカウトされ大きな転機を迎えた。ルプレによってピアフと名付けられた彼女は、歌手としてデビューするや、瞬く間にスターダムへと駆け上っていくのだったが…。

An escort who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.

鬼才ポール・バーホーベン監督が、23年ぶりに故郷のオランダでメガホンを取ったサスペンス・ドラマ。1944年、第二次世界大戦時ナチス・ドイツ占領下のオランダ。若く美しいユダヤ人歌手ラヘルは、ドイツ軍から解放されたオランダ南部へ家族とともに逃げようとするが、何者かの裏切りによって家族をナチスに殺されてしまう。復讐のために名前をエリスと変え、ブルネットの髪をブロンドに染め、レジスタンスに身を投じる。そしてナチス内部の情報を探るため、ナチス将校ムンツェに近づき、彼の愛人となることに成功するが…。果たして真の裏切り者は誰なのか？すべての鍵を握る“ブラックブック”とは？

An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage.

Armed insurgents attempt a coup d'etat in a troubled Eastern European country, and the president flees to the U.S. embassy for protection. When the U.S. ambassador is murdered by the ruthless and gun-happy rebels, it comes down to the second-in-command of the embassy, Sam Keenan, played by Belgian kickboxer Jean-Claude Van Damme, to use his amazing martial arts technique to defend the besieged.

Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, filmmaker Orson Welles makes his way to Rome, where he gets pulled into a tangled political plot involving murder and mysterious motives. A beautiful actress proves a tempting distraction. But if they want to stay alive, Welles and his young Italian driver need to stay focused.

チャーリー少年は、失業中の父と母、そして祖父母がふた組の、極度に貧乏な家で、けなげに明るく暮らしていた。ある時、家のすぐそばにある世界一のチョコレート工場の主、ウィリー・ウォンカ氏が、幸運な5人の子供たちに工場内を見学する許可を与える声明を発表。ウォンカ製のチョコレートに入ったゴールデンチケットを引き当てたのは、肥満少年のグループ、富豪のわがまま娘ヴェルーカ、賞獲り少女のヴァイオレット、ゲームおたくの少年マイク。そして最後の1枚がチャーリーの手元に転がりこんだ。

The President's daughter, unable to experience life like a normal 18 year-old, escapes from her entourage of Secret Service agents while traveling in Europe. She falls in love with a handsome British stranger, who also happens to be working undercover for her father.

The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Curteis, an experienced writer who had started his television career in drama, but had increasingly come to specialise in dramatic reconstructions of history. It was originally commissioned by the BBC in 1983, for production and broadcast in 1986, but was subsequently shelved by Controller of BBC One Michael Grade due to its alleged pro-Margaret Thatcher stance and jingoistic tone. This prompted a press furore over media bias and censorship.The play was not staged until 2002, when it was broadcast in separate adaptations on BBC Television and Radio.

The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As George struggles to sabotage his mother's new romance, he must deal with his own romantic feelings for Morgan's daughter and the consequences of his meddling as his once great family falls into ruin due to his machinations...

『リバー・ランズ・スルー・イット』のブラッド・ピット＆ロバート・レッドフォードのコンビが再び共演。CIAスパイの熱き友情と決死の救出劇を描く。

Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terrorist movement, and his wife and daughter are among the slaughtered. With western governments suppressing key facts and unwilling to go after the terrorists, Jack uses his contacts and snooping skill to seek the truth himself.

One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.

This unauthorized retrospective and making of features interviews with cast members from the original Star Wars trilogy reflecting on their experience making the films and the cultural phenomenon that ensued after the films release.

The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of Hong Kong by Britain; through the eyes of the key figures, fiercely nationalistic Lin Zexu, and opportunistic British naval diplomat Charles Elliot.

Two young children are brought to Janet Hinton, a social worker in the Scottish Highlands. When both she and an independent expert become convinced that the children are part of a ritual child abuse network, the small community is thrown into disarray.

秘密諜報員イーサン・ハントの仲間は次々に傷つき、自らも負傷した。にもかかわらず、ハントは二重スパイの汚名を着せられる。追跡者から逃がれ、厳重な警備のCIAの金庫室に忍び込み、疾走する列車の屋根にしがみつき、ハントは独力で事件の謎を解明しようとする。やがて驚くべき真相が明らかに…。

Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.

The US Army has decided to modernize its cavalry, so Colonel James E. Devers is ordered by a general to convert a horse unit to motorcycles, but his men are easily outclassed as riders by a pack of rowdies, especially Grady Westfall; when he is arrested risking a long jail term, he's given one way out: enlisting as Corporal, assigned as driving instructor. Unit commander Captain Jack Hassler reviles his unorthodox boyish methods as undermining discipline and tradition, not to mention flirting with the Colonels daughter Beryl Ann, but he's needed, especially when his unit is deployed on a secret mission in Spain.

An experimental submarine with a very experienced crew, the "Siren II" is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I" after it mysteriously disappeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find things that shouldn't be there...

Adaptation from a novel by Frederick Forsyth.

Aspiring young novelist Tony Zonis (Alexis Denisof) wants to write the next great suspense thriller, so he decides to study the work of master crime writer, Willard Hope (Christopher Lee). Together, they pick through random newspaper stories, looking for the unusual event that will make a good thriller. What they find is murder. A government cover-up... an international scandal... and the bodies are just beginning to fall into place. Now Tony isn't just writing the next best-seller... he's writing his own obituary.

DCコミックスの誇るスーパー・ヒーローを巨費を投じて映画化した大作。ゴッサム・シティの闇に跳梁し悪を粉砕するバットマンと犯罪組織の新ボス・ジョーカーとの戦い。単純明解な娯楽編にはせずにひねった作品を目指していたのか、バットマンの誕生の秘密やジョーカーの設定などかなり暗めで、マニアックな仕上がりになっている。ニコルソン怪演。

Political drama about the Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik

A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton monster truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family.

Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashed because a defective part, a C-ring, has been made of a weaker, less expensive alloy. Before Rob can go public with this, Rob is killed on the orders of corrupt General Howard, who did not want Rob to go public with the defective part. Howard believes that Barbara, who is also a marine, now has the part, so Howard and his henchmen set out to kill Barbara and Johnny and get the part, but Howard is underestimating what Barbara is willing to do to protect Johnny.

A famed mystery writer and her doctor ex-lover solve her daughter-in-law's murder.

The life of King Henry the Fifth.

The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.

In September 1944, a Wehrmacht officer tried to hand over his unit.

Learn the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how the original Star Wars movie was brought to the big screen in this fascinating documentary hosted by C-3PO and R2-D2 which includes interviews with George Lucas and appearances by Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.

核ミサイルを搭載した英潜水艦「レンジャー」とソ連潜水艦「ポチョムキン」が突如消息を絶った。調査を命ぜられたボンドはエジプト・カイロへ飛び、そこで同じ目的でソ連が派遣したKGBの女スパイ、アニヤと出会う。 共同で任務に当たるが、事件の直前、オーストリアでボンドに差し向けられ、返り討ちにあったソ連の殺し屋が彼女の恋人だった。「この任務が終わったら、あなたを殺すわ」そう言われたボンドは彼女と共にアメリカ海軍の潜水艦に乗り込み、怪しいとにらんだストロンバーグ海運のタンカーに接近する。 ストロンバーグは米ソを核攻撃し、世界を壊滅させ、海の世界を作ろうとしていた…。

連合軍のノルマンディ上陸作戦から3カ月後の1944年9月5日、ドイツ軍はオランダからの撤退を開始した。9月10日、ロンドンのブラウニング中将の司令室に司令官たちが集まり、オランダからドイツにかけての5つの橋を占拠するための話し合いが行われた。それはオランダのアーンエム付近に空からのマーケット、陸からのガーデン両作戦を遂行し、ネーデル・ライン河からベルリンへ進撃路を開くための史上空前の大作戦だった。

遠い昔、遙か彼方の銀河では帝国軍の独裁体制が敷かれていた。反乱の機会をうかがう惑星アルデラーンのレイア姫は暗黒卿ダース・ベイダーに捕らえられるが、その寸前に二体のドロイドR2-D2とC-3POを砂漠の惑星タトゥイーンに送り込む。偶然にもそのドロイドを手に入れた青年ルークは、ジェダイの騎士団の一人オビ＝ワン・ケノービや密輸船ミレニアム・ファルコンの船長ハン・ソロたちと共に、反乱軍と帝国軍の闘いに巻き込まれていく。

The doomed love story between Marguerite Gautier, a French courtesan frequented by high-class gentlemen, who is suffering from tuberculosis, and a young gentleman Armand Duval who's new in town.

Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed.

A young girl on a train finds out that her companion is a serial killer.

Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Rome while maintaining a relationship with the queen of Egypt (Hildegarde Neil), which began while Antony was still married. Now he is being forced to marry the sister of his Roman co-leader, and soon the conflict leads to war.

The story of a U.S. deserter who comes in search of English sanctuary and turns out to be something of a negative cause, both for those who attempt to help him directly and those who like to use him politically.

A college professor lectures on the recently published Kinsey Report, as Americans are stunned by the shocking sexual truths revealed by the statistics. Five audience members reflect on their own sex lives, which flesh out the research with real life experience. A young couple ponder the repercussions of pre-marital sex. Returning home from overseas, a man learns that his neglected wife has been unfaithful. Anguish follows a divorcee's romantic fling. Having had sex with no one but his wife in his entire life, a man attempts to sow some belated wild oats. A young girl considering abortion is horrified by the filthy illegal back-door 'clinics' that are her only option.