Mikael Salomon

'Mikael Salomon' (qv) was born and grew up in Denmark. He is originally and primarily a cinematographer. The first feature film he shot was _Fantasterne (1967)_ (qv) 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)_ (qv) and Spielberg's _Always (1989)_ (qv), and Ron Howard's _Far and Away (1992)_ (qv). In the mid-90s 'Mikael Salomon' (qv) 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)_ (qv), Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater in the action thriller _Hard Rain (1998)_ (qv), 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)_ (qv). 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)_.::Peter Brandt Nielsen