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| 3 | Patrick Philippe Tatopoulos (born September 25, 1957 in Paris) is a French-American production designer, art director, special effects artist and film director of French and Greek descent. |
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| 5 | He has worked on the designs of sets, props, vehicles and creatures of a number of high profile UrbanFantasy and ScienceFiction films in Hollywood since the early 1990s. He made his directing debut in 2009 with ''[[Film/Underworld2003 Underworld: Rise of the Lycans]]''. |
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| 7 | He's also been a jury member in two seasons of the makeup and special effects-related TalentShow ''Series/FaceOff''. |
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| 9 | [[folder:Films he has worked on include:]] |
| 10 | * ''Film/ShowdownInLittleTokyo'' (1991) |
| 11 | * ''[[Film/TheBeastmaster Beastmaster 2 : Through the Portal of Time]]'' (1991) |
| 12 | * ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' (1992) |
| 13 | * ''[[Film/SuperMarioBros1993 Super Mario Bros.]]'' (1993) |
| 14 | * ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' (1995) |
| 15 | * ''Film/Se7en'' (1995) |
| 16 | * ''Film/IndependenceDay'' (1996) |
| 17 | * ''Film/{{Spawn|1997}}'' (1997) |
| 18 | * ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'' (1998) |
| 19 | * ''Film/DarkCity'' (1998) |
| 20 | * ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' (2000) |
| 21 | * ''Film/{{The Patriot|2000}}'' (2000) |
| 22 | * ''Film/{{Supernova}}'' (2000) |
| 23 | * ''Film/StuartLittle'' (2000) |
| 24 | * ''Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'': |
| 25 | ** ''Film/PitchBlack'' (2000) |
| 26 | ** ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'' (2004) |
| 27 | ** ''Film/{{Riddick}}'' (2013) |
| 28 | * ''Film/{{They}}'' (2002) |
| 29 | * ''Film/{{Underworld|2003}}'' series |
| 30 | * ''Film/IRobot'' (2004) |
| 31 | * ''Film/VanHelsing'' (2004) |
| 32 | * ''Film/TheCave'' (2005) |
| 33 | * ''Film/SilentHill'' (2006) |
| 34 | * ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'' (2007) |
| 35 | * ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' (2007) |
| 36 | * ''Film/IAmLegend'' (2007) |
| 37 | * ''Film/{{Outlander|2008}}'' (2008) |
| 38 | * ''Film/TenThousandBC'' (2008) |
| 39 | * ''Film/SolomonKane'' (2009) |
| 40 | * ''Film/{{Total Recall|2012}}'' (2012) |
| 41 | * ''Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire'' (2014) |
| 42 | * ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'': |
| 43 | ** ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' (2016) |
| 44 | ** ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'' (2017) |
| 45 | ** ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' (2021) |
| 46 | * ''Film/SnowSteamIron'' (2017) |
| 47 | * ''Film/MaleficentMistressOfEvil'' (2019) |
| 48 | * ''Film/TransformersRiseOfTheBeasts'' (2023) |
| 49 | * ''Film/{{Damsel}}'' (2023) |
| 50 | [[/folder]] |
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| 52 | !!Tropes & Trivia in his works: |
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| 54 | * [[invoked]]ApprovalOfGod: He has expressed no hard feelings at his 1998 Film/{{Godzilla|1998}} design being renamed "Zilla", and he is actually ''happy'' that it went on to be used in other media such as [[WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries the animated series]] or even ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' (even though the monster is brought back in the latter solely to [[TakeThat be annihilated in seconds by the original Japanese Godzilla]]). |
| 55 | * AwesomeDearBoy: He's loved working on most projects he's been part of even some not so well received ones, bar rare exceptions such as ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''. |
| 56 | * TheCameo: He was an extra in ''The Patriot''. |
| 57 | * CreatorThumbprint: No matter the creature he designs, he will always make sure it has a "human" feature of some sort. |
| 58 | * CreatorsFavorite: His favorite creature among those he designed is the Bioraptor from ''Film/PitchBlack''. |
| 59 | * TheGreys: The aliens he designed for ''Independence Day'' are among the most famous examples of the trope on film. |
| 60 | * [[invoked]]OldShame: He considers ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' as his worst experience to date. |
| 61 | * [[invoked]]ProductionPosse: He has worked multiple times with several directors such as Creator/RolandEmmerich, David Twohy, Creator/AlexProyas and Creator/ZackSnyder. |
| 62 | * {{Tuckerization}}: As one might easily guess, Nick Tatopoulos, the main human character played by Creator/MatthewBroderick in the 1998 ''Godzilla'' film, is named after him. |
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