Scott Mann (filmmaker)

Scott Mann in 2022

Scott Mann is a British film director originally from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham and now living in Los Angeles.

Career

Before making feature films Mann directed several award-winning short films including Chaingangs (2003) and Tug of War (2006), which starred Julie Goodyear, Marsha Thomason, Scott Neal and Jo Guest.

Mann has also directed several programmes for Granada Television.

His first feature film, The Tournament, an action movie released on 20 October 2009, produced by Keith Bell and written by Gary Young, Jonathan Frank, and Nick Rowntree stars Robert Carlyle, Ving Rhames, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder and Scott Adkins. In 2011, he signed on to direct The Weinstein Company's planned remake of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, to be set in contemporary Thailand, but the project never materialized. Mann's second feature film, Heist, originally Bus 657, was released on 13 November 2015, starring Robert De Niro, Kate Bosworth, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Dave Bautista.

Filmography

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Writer
1995	The Sneeze	Yes	No
2003	Chaingang	Yes	No
2006	Pocket Thief	Yes	Yes
	Tug of War	Yes	No

Feature films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2005	Down Amongst the Dead Men	Yes	Yes	No	Co-directed with Nick Rowntree
2009	The Tournament	Yes	No	No
2015	Heist	Yes	No	No
2018	Final Score	Yes	No	No
2022	Fall	Yes	Yes	Yes

Television

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Notes
1999	Antique Fair	Yes	No
2001	Stars in Their Eyes: Kids	Yes	No
2004	Celebrities Exposed	Yes	Yes
2011	The Betty Driver Story	Yes	Executive	TV movie
2018	Six	Yes	No	Episode "Indian Country"
2019	The Oath	Yes	No	3 episodes

External links

• Scott Mann at IMDb