Taylor attended the
Los Angeles Film School in Hollywood and began his career as a
cinematographer, working on
independent films and low-budget shorts. In the early 2000s, Taylor united with
Mark Neveldine to form the directing team
Neveldine/Taylor. Known for their aggressive, high energy camerawork, the team signed with
@radical.media in 2004 as commercial directors. They shot campaigns for Nike, Powerade, Budweiser and many others before moving to the big screen in 2006 with their first feature,
Crank. According to Taylor, the high adrenaline
Crank was written as "an attack on studio filmmaking." The film spawned a sequel,
Crank: High Voltage (2009) that
Quentin Tarantino called "The
Gremlins 2 of action movies". The team pioneered the RED ONE camera on the dystopian science fiction mashup
Gamer (2009), then trekked across Europe with
Nicolas Cage on
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011). In February 2012, Taylor signed a seven-figure deal with
Sony Pictures to write and direct a film adaptation of the
Twisted Metal video game series. In September 2017, Brian Taylor confirmed that Sony had passed on the
Twisted Metal film, feeling the series fanbase did not warrant the higher budget it would have cost to realize it. In 2016, Taylor teamed up with
Grant Morrison to adapt the graphic novel
Happy! for Original Films. The series premiered on SyFy in 2017. Brian and Grant went on to adapt Aldous Huxley's
Brave New World with Amblin/UCP as a USA series in 2018. In 2017, Taylor wrote and directed the
horror comedy film
Mom and Dad starring
Nicolas Cage,
Selma Blair and
Anne Winters. The film premiered at
Toronto International Film Festival 2017 as part of the Midnight Madness lineup and was released in theaters on January 19, 2018. In 2024, Taylor directed the live-action reboot
Hellboy: The Crooked Man. ==Filmography==