--- name: "James McTeigue" canonical: "https://film.one/person/james-mcteigue" fi1m_id: "james-mcteigue" imdb_id: "nm0574625" tmdb_id: 11266 wikidata_id: "Q456008" roles: ["Producer","Director"] born: "29 December 1967" reviewed_on_fi1m: 7 average_as: "producer" average_over: 0 updated: "2026-10-05T02:48:45.073691+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # James McTeigue ## Identity James McTeigue - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/james-mcteigue - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** james-mcteigue - **IMDb ID:** nm0574625 - **TMDB ID:** 11266 - **Wikidata ID:** Q456008 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McTeigue, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456008, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574625/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11266 Producer and director. Born 29 December 1967 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ## Details - **Work:** Producer, Director - **Born:** 29 December 1967, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - **Active:** 1998–present - **Also known as:** 詹姆斯·麦克特格 - **Titles on Fi1m:** 7: 1 acting, 1 directing, 5 crew - **Frequently works with:** [Lana Wachowski](https://film.one/person/lana-wachowski.md) - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 82 (2), 2000s 58 (4), 2020s 66 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McTeigue, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456008, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574625/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11266 ## Fi1m on James McTeigue > James McTeigue’s work as a director and producer is closely tied to the Wachowskis. *V for Vendetta* gives us good reason to follow him: he can make a thriller forceful and unsettling, even when he lets the speeches run too long. In *V for Vendetta* (2006), a fixed mask holds our attention more effectively than another speech. Adrian Biddle’s cinematography lets that expression stay disturbing, while Hugo Weaving gives the man behind it enough conviction to make listening uncomfortable. We were uneasy about how readily we wanted to agree with him; Weaving makes the masked revolutionary persuasive without making him reassuring. James McTeigue has made a good thriller here, though he too often lets the dialogue explain what the image has already told us. The Wachowski connection predates his feature directing: he was first assistant director on *The Matrix* (1999) and its 2003 sequels. The Wachowskis wrote and produced his feature debut, *V for Vendetta*, then produced his *Ninja Assassin* (2009). His subsequent directing credits include *The Raven* (2012) and *Breaking In* (2018). The later films have attracted complaints about repetitive action and formulaic plotting, reasons to be selective rather than follow every directing credit. McTeigue gives the violence in *V for Vendetta* visual force, but some of it interrupts the thriller without deepening it. Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s screenplay has ambition, asking an action audience to sit still for questions about power and responsibility. Owen Paterson’s production design is harder to believe in: the dystopian setting looks too empty to suggest ordinary lives continuing beyond the central confrontation. A fuller sense of those lives would give the speeches something more concrete to refer to. His producer credit on Lana Wachowski’s *The Matrix Resurrections* (2021) continues that association in a different role. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss make the romance worth considering, while the explanations and hard-to-read fights leave us less persuaded. We cannot isolate McTeigue’s contribution from a producer credit, and there is no reason to assign him either the actors’ success or the staging’s failures. For a clearer view of his directing, start with *V for Vendetta*, allowing for the lectures. ## Biography James McTeigue is an Australian film and television director. Born on 29 December 1967 in Sydney, New South Wales, he began working in the film industry in the late 1980s as a production assistant on Australian films before becoming an assistant director. He served as assistant director on films including *Dark City* (1998), the *Matrix* trilogy (1999–2003) and *Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones* (2002). McTeigue made his feature directorial debut with *V for Vendetta* (2005), written and produced by the Wachowskis. He has since directed *Ninja Assassin* (2009), *The Raven* (2012), *Survivor* (2015) and episodes of *Sense8* (2015–2017), and produced *The Matrix Resurrections* (2021). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (7) ### Performed in (1) - *The Matrix Resurrections* (2021), Fi1m 66, as Innocuous Man — [page](https://film.one/film/the-matrix-resurrections.md) ### Directed (1) - *V for Vendetta* (2006), Fi1m 73, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/v-for-vendetta.md) ### Crew (5) - *The Matrix Reloaded* (2003), Fi1m 60, First Assistant Director, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-matrix-reloaded.md) - *The Matrix Revolutions* (2003), Fi1m 46, Assistant Director, First Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-matrix-revolutions.md) - *Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones* (2002), Fi1m 54, First Assistant Director, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones.md) - *The Matrix* (1999), Fi1m 88, First Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-matrix.md) - *Dark City* (1998), Fi1m 76, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/dark-city.md) ## Complete filmography (27) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Matrix Resurrections* (2021), as Innocuous Man · Producer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-matrix-resurrections.md) - *Messiah* (2020), series, Director, Executive Producer - *Breaking In* (2018), Director - *Sense8* (2015), series, Director - *Survivor* (2015), Director - *Marco Polo* (2014), series, Director - *Caserta Palace Dream* (2014), Director, Writer - *The Raven* (2012), Director - *Ninja Assassin* (2009), Director - *V for Vendetta* (2006), Director — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/v-for-vendetta.md) - *The Matrix Revolutions* (2003), First Assistant Director, Assistant Director — Fi1m 46, [page](https://film.one/film/the-matrix-revolutions.md) - *The Matrix Reloaded* (2003), First Assistant Director, Assistant Director — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/the-matrix-reloaded.md) - *Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones* (2002), Assistant Director, First Assistant Director — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones.md) - *The Monkey's Mask* (2001), Assistant Director - *Looking for Alibrandi* (2000), First Assistant Director - *The Matrix* (1999), First Assistant Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-matrix.md) - *The Sugar Factory* (1999), Second Assistant Director - *Dark City* (1998), Assistant Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/dark-city.md) - *The Well* (1997), Second Assistant Director - *Paradise Road* (1997), Second Assistant Director - *To Have and to Hold* (1996), Second Assistant Director - *The Island of Dr. Moreau* (1996), Production Assistant - *No Escape* (1994), Second Second Assistant Director - *Midnight Dancer* (1988), Production Office Assistant - *Alien Sleeper Cell*, Director - *Blood Music*, Director - *The Midnight Pool*, Director, Producer --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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