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Bio:
William Stout began his professional career in 1968 with the cover for the first issue of Coven 13. In 1972 he joined Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder on Little Annie Fanny for Playboy. 1977 saw Stout's first movie poster, Wizards and he also was one of the first American contributors to Heavy Metal magazine. Stout began his film career in 1978 with Buck Rogers and has worked as a designer and conceptualist on over 35 feature films since then including both Conan films, First Blood, The Hitcher and Invaders From Mars. His work on Return of the Living Dead made him the youngest production designer in film history. He designed "Edgar" in Men In Black for ILM as well as the original “Predator”. His work as a key designer on Guillermo del Toro's horror fantasy, Pan's Labyrinth contributed to the film winning two of its Academy Awards and won Stout a 2006 Chesley Award. He recently contributed to Christopher Nolan's The Prestige and Frank Darabont's Stephen King's The Mist. Stout is currently designing a WWII horror film The Tomb for director Jon Davis. It will be shot later this year in Spain. He is slated to work on del Toro's At The Mountains of Madness, Darabont's Fahrenheit 451, the film adaptation of the television's Land of the Lost, as well as the proposed John Carter of Mars film |
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