Mikael Salomon
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Producer
Mikael Salomon was born and grew up in Denmark. He is originally and
primarily a cinematographer. The first feature film he shot was Fantasterne (1967)
by Kirsten Stenbæk. After almost two decades as one of his country's
finest in the field and only a few foreign productions, he then moved
his life and his career to Hollywood. His work included smaller movies,
but was led by Cameron's The Abyss (1989) and Spielberg's Always (1989), and Ron
Howard's Far and Away (1992). In the mid-90s Mikael Salomon made another drastic
career move: He exchanged his cinematographer career with that of the
director's. He has stated, "I just thought it was time to try something
new". He directed Reese Witherspoon in the adventure A Far Off Place (1993), Morgan
Freeman and Christian Slater in the action thriller Hard Rain (1998), and
different television work, especially the ever-important pilots. Steven
Spielberg gave Salomon a qualitatively stronger project than the bulk
of his direction work with two episodes of 2001's Band of Brothers (2001). Salomon has
stated his intention of working on less of the tv-series and pilots
that force him to compromise his visions, in favor of more qualitative
features and mini-series, such as _Salem's Lot (2004) (TV)_.
