Patrick TatopoulosFilmography

Occupation:: Art Director, Director, Production Designer, Special Effects, Supervisor/Manager, Creature Design

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Nonstop

Crew: Director

Synopsis: FX guru Patrick Tatopoulos steps behind the camera again after his Underworld: Rise of the Lycans directorial debut with this DreamWorks production concerning a plane flight's abduction by a UFO. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Crew: Creature Design, Director

Actors: Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux

Synopsis: The Underworld series gets the prequel treatment with this third outing that fleshes out the story of the ancient war between the vampiric Death Dealers and their wolfman counterparts, the Lycans. F/X technician Patrick Tatopoulos (Godzilla, Independence Day) steps out of the effects lab and into Read More

1/23/09
I Am Legend

Crew: Creature Design

Actors: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Willow Smith

Synopsis: Adapted from acclaimed author Richard Matheson's influential novelette of the same name, Constantine director Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend follows the last man on Earth as he struggles to survive while fending off the infected survivors of a devastating vampiric plague. A brilliant scientist who Read More

12/14/07
Resident Evil: Extinction

Crew: Creature Design, Visual Consultant

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Ali Larter, Iain Glen, Ashanti

Synopsis: Director Russell Mulcahy takes over for the third chapter in the Resident Evil film franchise, which finds genetically altered Alice (Milla Jovovich) joining forces with Carlos (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps) to take down the Umbrella Corporation once and for all. Upon emerging from her hideout Read More

9/21/07
Live Free or Die Hard

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant, Cliff Curtis, Maggie Q

Synopsis: An old-fashioned cop emerges to foil a high-tech attack on the country's computer infrastructure as Bruce Willis brings back one of the biggest action franchises in screen history. It's been over a decade since audiences last saw New York cop John McClane (Willis), but now, as the world's greatest Read More

6/27/07
Silent Hill

Crew: Creature Design, Supervisor/Manager

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates

Synopsis: A mother and daughter flee to a strange abandoned town to seek out answers to the daughter's nightly psychological turmoil in Brotherhood of the Wolf director Christophe Gans' adaptation of the popular survival horror video game. Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) is a very sick child, yet rather than Read More

4/21/06
Underworld: Evolution

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy

Synopsis: Tribes of vampires and werewolves battle for supremacy among the undead in this follow-up to the horror hit Underworld. Tracing the bloody history of the ongoing war between the Death Dealers, a gang of upper-crust vampires, and the Lycans, a pack of scruffy werewolves, Underworld: Evolution finds Read More

1/20/06
The Cave

Crew: Creature Design

Actors: Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian, Rick Ravanello, Marcel Iures

Synopsis: Terror lurks deep beneath the surface of the Earth in this thriller. While on a dig in a Romanian forest, a group of scientists make a startling find -- they find a huge abbey, dating back to the 13th Century, which was built over the entrance to a massive network of subterranean caves. Eager to Read More

8/26/05
Alien vs. Predator

Crew: Visual Consultant

Actors: Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon

Synopsis: Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, Alien vs. Predator follows billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) and his team of drillers, scientists, and archaeologists, to an obscure pyramid site in Antarctica. Among the icy ruins, allegedly, lies the proof of an empire predating humankind. Once Read More

8/13/04
I, Robot

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: Director Alex Proyas (Dark City, The Crow) helmed this sci-fi thriller inspired by the stories in Isaac Asimov's nine-story anthology of the same name. In the future presented in the film, humans have become exceedingly dependent on robots in their everyday lives. Robots have become more and more Read More

7/16/04
The Chronicles of Riddick

Crew: Conceptual Design

Actors: Vin Diesel, Colm Feore, Thandie Newton, Judi Dench, Karl Urban, Alexa Davalos

Synopsis: Vin Diesel returns as the nocturnally gifted antihero Riddick in this sequel to the 2000 cult item Pitch Black. Riddick, on the run from the law and evading mercenaries eager to claim the price on his head, seeks refuge on the planet of Helion, only to discover he's walked into a world in chaos. Read More

6/11/04
Underworld

Crew: Creature Design

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen, Shane Brolly, Bill Nighy

Synopsis: A young man who has pledged his life to helping others finds himself in a pitched battle between two gangs of supernatural villains in this blend of horror story and action thriller. Michael Corvin (Scott Speedman) is a medical student who is heading home after a long day of school and work when Read More

9/19/03
They

Crew: Creature Design, Supervisor/Manager

Actors: Laura Regan, Marc Blucas, Ethan Embry, Dagmara Dominczyk

Synopsis: A college students discovers a horrifying truth behind the old saying "They only come out at night" in this thriller. Julia Lund (Laura Regan) is a college student studying psychology who, as a child, was haunted by "night terrors," hideous nightmares so vivid they seem real. As Julia's life Read More

11/27/02
Battlefield Earth

Crew: Costume Designer, Creature Design, Production Designer

Actors: John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker, Kim Coates, Richard Tyson

Synopsis: This big-budget science fiction adventure centers on a final battle between good and evil for control of the world. In the year 3000, Earth is ruled by the Psyclos, a vicious alien race of which Terl (John Travolta) is a member, that has laid waste to the planet, killed the majority of the Read More

5/12/00
Pitch Black

Crew: Creature Design, Supervisor/Manager

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser, Keith David, Lewis Fitz-Gerald

Synopsis: In this science fiction thriller, a spaceship is transporting a disparate group of people to a far-away galactic outpost called New Mecca. Mechanical failures cause the craft to crash-land on an abandoned planet that has three suns and no night. The only member of the crew to survive is junior Read More

2/18/00
Supernova

Crew: Makeup Special Effects

Actors: James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Peter Facinelli

Synopsis: In the early years of the 22nd century, a medical rescue team is traveling the netherworlds of deep space, waiting to answer emergency calls aboard what amounts to an interstellar ambulance. Captain Marley (Robert Forster), pilot Vanzant (James Spader), medical officer Evers (Angela Bassett) Read More

1/14/00
Dark City

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Richard O'Brien

Synopsis: Alex Proyas (The Crow) directed this noir-styled futuristic thriller, scripted by Proyas, Lem Dobbs (Kafka), and David S. Goyer (The Puppet Masters). Separated from his wife Emma (Jennifer Connelly), amnesiac John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens alone in a strange hotel to learn he is wanted for a Read More

1998
Godzilla

Crew: Special Effects

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: Dedicated to Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910-1997), who produced the 1954 original and sequels, the Devlin/Emmerich interpretation displays a redesign of Godzilla, now a large lizard mutated after fallout from French nuclear tests. A blinding flash of white light fills the Eastern sky. Thousands of miles Read More

1998
Independence Day

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch

Synopsis: A group of intrepid humans attempts to save the Earth from vicious extraterrestrials in this extremely popular science-fiction adventure. Borrowing liberally from War of the Worlds, Aliens, and every sci-fi invasion film inbetween, director Roland Emmerich and producer and co-writer Dean Devlin Read More

1996
Stargate

Crew: Creature Effects, Special Effects

Actors: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors, Alexis Cruz

Synopsis: This lucrative, elephantine-budgeted sci-fi opus paved the way for director Roland Emmerich's mega-hit Independence Day (1996). The story commences in Giza, Egypt, circa 1928, where an archaeological expedition unearths an ancient ring with cryptic hieroglyphs. The film then moves to the present Read More

1994
Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Marc Singer, Kari Wuhrer, Wings Hauser, Sarah Douglas, James Avery, Charles W. Young

Synopsis: The most fascinating thing about Beastmaster 2 is how well the cartoonish sword-and-sorcery characters blend in to contemporary Los Angeles -- it may as well be documentary. Marc Singer plays Dar, a muscle-headed barbarian whose main claim to fame is his ability to communicate with a wide array of Read More

8/30/91