Home

Magnus Martens

Biography from TheMovieDB

Norwegian screenwriter and director Magnus Martens (b. 1973) is internationally recognized for his ability to deliver stylish and violent action while remaining staggeringly entertaining and savagely funny. He made his feature breakthrough with the slick comedy thriller Jackpot (2011) which he wrote and directed based on a Jo Nesbø story. Selected for the Tribeca Film Festival, the critics described Jackpot as bloody and brilliant, and applauded Martens’ deliciously dark style, favorably comparing him to Tarantino and the Coen brothers.  Following his international breakthrough with Jackpot, Martens has directed multiple episodes for some of the biggest TV shows in the US, including Banshee, 12 Monkeys, Power, Marvel’s Luke Cage, Good Behavior, Longmire, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Will and Fear the Walking Dead. Most recently he directed the first two episodes of the anticipated The Walking Dead: World Beyond which premiered in October 2020.  Martens’ latest film, the explosive action thriller SAS: Red Notice, starring Sam Heughan, Ruby Rose and Tom Wilkinson, premiered in March 2021 in the UK and US. In August 2021 SAS: Red Notice was released on Netflix. Furthermore, Martens is director of Furia, an original drama series created by Emmy-winner Gjermund Stenberg Eriksen, which premiered on Viaplay in September 2021.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Film Production

Director:
1997  Virtual Ability
1999  Eddie Stargazer
2002  Most People Live in China
2003  United
2006  Svein and the Rat
2011  Jackpot
2021  SAS: Red Notice
2023  There's Something in the Barn
????  Midair
????  Zipline

Writer:
1997  Virtual Ability
1999  Eddie Stargazer
2002  Most People Live in China
2003  United
2006  Svein and the Rat
2011  Jackpot
2021  SAS: Red Notice
2023  There's Something in the Barn
????  Midair
????  Zipline

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

TV Production

Co-Executive Producer:
2020  The Walking Dead: World Beyond

Creator:
2010  Ah, så det er SÅNN det er
2014  Meglerne
2020  The Walking Dead: World Beyond

Director:
2003  Uti vår hage
2010  Ah, så det er SÅNN det er
2012  Nattskiftet
2013  Banshee
2013  Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2014  Meglerne
2015  12 Monkeys
2015  Fear the Walking Dead
2016  Marvel's Luke Cage
2020  The Walking Dead: World Beyond
2021  Furia

Script:
2003  Uti vår hage
2010  Ah, så det er SÅNN det er
2012  Nattskiftet
2013  Banshee
2013  Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2014  Meglerne
2015  12 Monkeys
2015  Fear the Walking Dead
2016  Marvel's Luke Cage
2020  The Walking Dead: World Beyond
2021  Furia

Writer:
2003  Uti vår hage
2010  Ah, så det er SÅNN det er
2012  Nattskiftet
2013  Banshee
2013  Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2014  Meglerne
2015  12 Monkeys
2015  Fear the Walking Dead
2016  Marvel's Luke Cage
2020  The Walking Dead: World Beyond
2021  Furia

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.