{"id":398,"date":"2009-07-24T14:49:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2009-07-25T11:11:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T15:11:17","slug":"who-is-joseph-kosinski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Who is Joseph Kosinski?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the sequel to 1982’s Tron, Tron Legacy<\/a>, is getting a lot of geek press; questions about the director Joseph Kosinski are being voiced. Where did this guy come from? Why is he directing 2 high-profile movies (Tron Legacy, Logan’s Run) with no past movie directing experience? <\/p>\n

Well, Joseph Kosinski has a lot of experience directing “artsy” commercials for companies like Nike, GM, and Ford. He also directed trailers\/commercials for Halo 2 and Gears of War.<\/p>\n

If any of his past work shows why he’s a good pick for Tron Legacy, it would be the commercial he did for Nike. Check out his work at http:\/\/www.josephkosinski.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that the sequel to 1982’s Tron, Tron Legacy, is getting a lot of geek press; questions about the director Joseph Kosinski are being voiced. Where did this guy come from? Why is he directing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tvmovies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32FB4-6q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":400,"url":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=400","url_meta":{"origin":398,"position":0},"title":"Tron Legacy Concept Test Video","author":"Matt","date":"July 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Tron Legacy concept test video has finally been made available at FlynnLives.com. 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