Michael Roesch
Film producer
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Michael Roesch (born April 24, 1974) is a film producer, screenwriter, and director. He collaborates on his movies with fellow filmmaker Peter Scheerer.
Biography
A movie aficionado since he was a kid, Michael Roesch started shooting short 8 mm movies at age 12.[1] While he was at college, he worked as a film journalist for several newspapers and magazines. Later, he started together with his writing partner Peter Scheerer a successful career as a screenwriter, and worked in various production capacities. Among their screenwriting credits are Alone in the Dark,[2] House of the Dead 2,[3] and Far Cry.[4]
In 2006, Roesch and Scheerer directed their first feature, the vampire thriller Brotherhood of Blood,[5] starring Victoria Pratt, Sid Haig and Ken Foree. The movie had its world premiere at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival in Spain in October 2007.[6] In the US and Canada, Sam Raimi's label Ghosthouse Underground acquired the movie and released it through Lionsgate.[7]
In 2007, Roesch and Scheerer directed Alone in the Dark II,[8] starring Rick Yune,[9] Lance Henriksen, and Danny Trejo. It is a sequel to the 2005 film Alone in the Dark.
Among Roesch's recent work as a producer is Prisoners of the Sun,[10] directed by Academy Award winner Roger Christian and starring John Rhys-Davies and Carmen Chaplin.
Filmography
- First Shift: Redemption (TBA) (producer)[11]
- First Shift: Vengeance (TBA) (producer)[11]
- 23 Years Later: The Castle of the Dead (2027) (producer)[12]
- Citizen Vigilante (2026) (executive producer)
- Run (2025) (producer)
- First Shift (2024) (producer)[11]
- Birds of a Feather (2019) (associate producer)
- Female Fight Club (2016) (co-executive producer)
- Viy (2014) (co-executive producer)
- Prisoners of the Sun (2013) (co-producer)
- BloodRayne: The Third Reich (2011) (associate producer)
- Blubberella (2011) (associate producer)
- Far Cry (2008) (screenwriter)
- Alone in the Dark II (2008) (director, screenwriter)
- In the Name of the King (2007) (associate producer)
- Brotherhood of Blood (2006) (director, screenwriter)
- BloodRayne (2006) (associate producer)
- House of the Dead 2 (2005) (screenwriter)
- Alone in the Dark (2005) (screenwriter)
- House of the Dead (2003) (co-executive producer)