25 Facts About Luigi Cozzi

Luigi Cozzi was born on 7 September 1947 and is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

At a young age, Cozzi became a fan of science fiction and began his career as an overseas correspondent for Western film magazines.

Luigi Cozzi was born in Busto Arsizio in Italy on 7 September 1947.

At a young age, Luigi Cozzi made films in 8mm and grew up wanting to be a film director.

Luigi Cozzi was a great fan of science fiction, and worked as an overseas correspondent for Western film magazines such as Famous Monsters of Filmland and Photon.

Luigi Cozzi befriended director Dario Argento and began working on his screenplay for Four Flies on Grey Velvet, as well as working as an assistant on the film.

Luigi Cozzi continued work with Argento on his film The Five Days and began working in television, writing two episodes and directing "Neighbor" for the Door into Darkness television series.

Luigi Cozzi has since attempted to develop new non-science fiction films including The Locomotive and Freshmen but could not get funding for them.

Luigi Cozzi felt he did not have the budget to compete with Star Wars and decided to give the film a "deliberately crazy look".

Luigi Cozzi was about to do a sequel to the film titled Star Riders which would have a $12 million budget from Cannon Films with actors Klaus Kinski, Nancy Kwan and Jack Rabin.

Luigi Cozzi went on to direct The Humanoid starring Richard Kiel, taking over for Aldo Lado.

Luigi Cozzi began working on a new film titled Alien Contamination which producers agreed to finance on the condition that the film would resemble Alien.

Luigi Cozzi oversaw the release of an edited version of the kaiju film Godzilla in 1977, which among other changes feature colorization using colored gels, footage of the bombing of Hiroshima and a synthesizer music soundtrack.

Luigi Cozzi began working at writing novels, writing thrillers including Killer Instinct and Fear Hotel and the science fiction novel Time Parallels and the horror novel Cthulu Night.

Luigi Cozzi was later offered by Menahem Golan to do an updated version of the story of Hercules on the condition that he could re-write the script in three weeks.

Luigi Cozzi accepted and developed Hercules, which drew inspiration from Clash of the Titans.

Luigi Cozzi worked on a sequel that had actor Lou Ferrigno reprise his role, but found the actor only available for three weeks which led to Luigi Cozzi padding the film with footage from the first film.

Luigi Cozzi continued working with Argento, working on the special effects scenes in his film Phenomena.

Luigi Cozzi created the scene involving the insects attacking a school by filming smashed coffee grounds in a water tank.

Luigi Cozzi followed this work with television series Giallo working again with Argento and Lamberto Bava.

Luigi Cozzi was offered to direct the film Witchery, which the initial director Claudio Lattanzi left during pre-production.

Luigi Cozzi entered and left two weeks into pre-production, finding the story "too predictable and banal".

Luigi Cozzi played himself in the film Sick-o-pathics and developed documentaries on Dario Argento.

Luigi Cozzi later made two documentaries on the films of Dario Argento, and for years co-owned and managed Argento's retail movie memorabilia store in Italy, Profondo Rosso.

Luigi Cozzi explained his return to film making was due to modern technology making it easier to make a film.