Wolfgang Petersen

Date of Birth

1941-03-14

Date of Death

2022-08-12

Place of Birth

Emden, Germany

Known for

The Neverending Story

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Awesome Art’s Interview With Artist Sam Green

Posted 9 months ago

For years, Awesome Art has been about two things only – awesome art and the artists that create it. With that in mind, we thought why not take the first week of the month to showcase these awesome artists even...

JoBlo Originals

Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: Alien, The Muppet Show, Rocky III, Venom, The Wild Robot

Posted 2 years ago

Some cliche somewhere said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have wanted...

Movie News

Orlando Bloom says he’s erased his character from Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy from his memory

Posted 2 years ago

Orlando Bloom says he's "blanked" his role as Paris for Wolfgang Petersen's Troy from his mind after so many years.

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Why we never got an Air Force One sequel

Posted 2 years ago

Even though it was one of the highest-grossing movies of 1997, Air Force One never got a sequel...but could we see a reboot?

JoBlo Originals

Troy (2004): WTF Happened to this Movie?

Posted 3 years ago

We look back on Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of Homer's great epic starring Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, and Eric Bans in WTF Happened to Troy

JoBlo Originals

Awesome Artists We’ve Found Around The Net: Edgar Ascensão

Posted 3 years ago

Theodore For years, Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net has been about two things only – awesome art and the artists that create it. With that in mind, we thought why not take the first week of the month...

JoBlo Originals

Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: Batman, Darth Maul, Lightyear, Prey, Spider-Man

Posted 4 years ago

Theodore Some cliche somewhere said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have...

Movie News

Wolfgang Petersen, director of Air Force One and Neverending Story, has died at 81

Posted 4 years ago

Wolfgang Petersen, the German director of such films as Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, Das Boot, and The Neverending Story, has passed away. Petersen rested comfortably in his Brentwood home on Friday when he died of pancreatic cancer. Petersen left this Earth in...

JoBlo Originals

Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: Ghostbusters, Hook, Resident Evil, Star Wars

Posted 5 years ago

The NeverEnding Story: Fantasizing About Fantasy Films

Posted 6 years ago

Welcome back to "Fantasizing About Fantasy Films" – JoBlo.com's all-new series digging into some of the best fantasy films of the eighties and nineties. All of these movies left a mark on us kids of the eighties, but perhaps none...

Akiva Goldsman on his exceptionally dark version of Batman vs Superman

Posted 6 years ago

For every superhero movie that has been released over the past two decades (and there are a lot), there are just as many which didn't make it to the big-screen. One such project was BATMAN VS SUPERMAN, and while we...

Brad Pitt says Troy made him rethink his career

Posted 6 years ago

Brad Pitt started out his career as a heartthrob. Appearing in movies like LEGENDS OF THE FALL, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, THELMA AND LOUISE, and INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, his poster was plastered to teenage girls' bedroom walls worldwide....

Shattered (Arrow Recommends)

Posted 8 years ago

"Arrow Recommends is a column that has my sorry ass advise older movies to your royal asses. I will be flexible in terms of genres i.e. I will cover whatever the bleep I want. For now, it will be the...

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