Duncan Jones

At 53 years old, Duncan Jones has this physical status:

Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, born on May 30, 1971, is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter.

He is best known for his film Moon (2009), which earned him the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer.

He also supervised Source Code (2011), Warcraft (2016), and Mute (2018). He is the son of late English singer-songwriter David Bowie.

Early life

Jones was born in Bromley, London, on May 30th, 1970, the only child of English singer-songwriter and guitarist David Bowie (1947-2016) and his first wife, Angela "Angie" Bowie (née Barnett), an American model and actress. George, George's maternal grandfather, was a United States Army veteran and mining engineer who operated a mill for the Cyprus Mines Corporation, while his maternal grandmother, Helena, was a naturalized Canadian. His mother was born and raised in Cyprus and has Polish ancestry. His father was inspired to write "Kooks" for his 1971 album Hunky Dory due to his father's birth.

Jones was mainly raised in London, Berlin, and Switzerland's Vevey. Marion Skene, his Scottish nanny, spent time growing up in London, Berlin, and Vevey. In Lausanne, he spent the first and second grade at the Commonwealth American School (now the International School of Lausanne). When his parents separated in February 1980, he was granted custody of eight-year-old Jones (who was then known as "Zowie Bowie" to match his father's stage name) and visited his mother on school holidays until she stopped seeing her at age 13. He began enrolling in Gordonstoun, Scotland's co-educational boarding school, at age 14. He decided that he liked to be named "Joey" and changed it to "Joe" in his later teen years at the age of 12. According to the newspaper, he went by "Joe" in 1992 to fashion model Iman, where he was the best man. Around the age of 18, he reverted to his birth name.

Jones, the half-brother of Alexandria "Lexi" Jones (born 2000), his father's son and his father's second wife, Iman, is the second child of his father and his father's second daughter. He is also the half-brother of Stacia Larranna Lipka (born 1980), who was also the half-brother of Drew Blood's relationship with singer Andrew Lipka. Zulekha Haywood (born 1978), the daughter of Iman and former NBA basketball player Spencer Haywood, Iman's second husband, has a stepmother.

Jones earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Wooster by 1995. He earned a PhD degree at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee but then dropped out early to attend London Film School, where he later graduated in 2001. Jones aspired to be a professional wrestler as a child, and his father often praised Jones' "innate power."

Personal life

On June 28, 2012, Jones proposed to photographer Rodene Ronquillo. They married on November 6, 2012. Ronquillo was diagnosed with breast cancer on the same day. Both the couple have campaigned to raise the disease's awareness and for early diagnosis. Ronquillo's first child, a son, was born on July 10, 2016. Jones revealed on October 1st that he and Ronquillo were expecting their second child. On April 18, Jones announced the birth of their daughter. Zowie was named after his own name.

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Career

Jones was one of many cameramen at his father's widely broadcast 50th birthday party, hosted by Englishman Tim Pope at Madison Square Garden in 1997 and two BowieNet concerts at Roseland Ballroom in New York City in June 2000. He was also the game's producer for the revolutionary simulation Republic: The Revolution, as well as scripting elements of the game.

Jones curated the 2006 launch of the French Connection fashion brand. The idea of 'Fashion vs Style' was intended to reinvigorate the brand and relocate it away from FCUK's former incarnation, which style pundits felt had been stale and overused. The commercial debuted in the week ending on February 20, 2006, and it featured two women (representing fashion and style) combating and briefly kissing each other. The advertisement received 127 complaints from the Advertising Standards Authority, which was the subject of 127.

Moon, Jones' debut feature film, was nominated for seven British Independent Film Awards in 2009, and two, Best British Independent Film, and the Douglas Hickox Award for Best British Director were given. At the 2010 ceremony, it was also nominated for two BAFTA Awards, earning Jones the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer. The film has received 19 other awards from film festivals and societies, including the BAFTA Carl Foreman Award.

He supervised the Summit Entertainment project Source Code, a science-fiction drama from Vendome Pictures that was directed by Mark Gordon. Source Code was released in the United States on DVD and Blu-Ray on June 26, 2011.

Jones wrote and co-wrote Warcraft, based on the same video game series that was released in the summer of 2016. Alexander Skarsgrd and Paul Rudd's next film, Mute, will return to the science fiction genre. Jones had been designing the project for years and referred to it as a "spiritual sequel" to Moon, inspired by Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. A mute bartender probing his lover's disappearance, set in Berlin forty years in the future. In February 2018, Netflix produced and released the film, which was then available worldwide.

Jones revealed in July 2018 that his next project would be based on the 2000 AD Comics character Rogue Trooper. "The script is definitely looking really good now," he told Entertainment Weekly in July 2019. We're getting to the point where we're going to have to start casting and making the thing."

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