Gee Malik Linton

Gee Malik Linton (born December 9, 1973) is a Jamaican-American film director, screenwriter and producer.

Gee Malik Linton
Born
Gerard Malik Linton

(1973-12-09) December 9, 1973[1]
Brooklyn, New York, United States[1]
Other namesDeclan Dale
Alma materAdelphi University
OccupationDirector, Screenwriter, Producer
Years active2001-present
Height6 ft 1.5 in (186.7 cm)[1]
Spouse(s)Melissa Linton (1999-present)
Children2[1]

Career


Born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jamaican family, Gee Malik Linton majored in physics in college and was pursuing a master's degree until he sold a screenplay and switched to filmmaking.[2] Beginning his career writing and directing short films, he then worked as a physical trainer for Tobey Maguire during Spider-Man, Leonardo DiCaprio during The Departed, and Anne Hathaway during The Dark Knight Rises.[2][3]


Linton directed the 2016 thriller Exposed starring Keanu Reeves, which was mired in controversy. Throughout the writing and filming process, Linton had a different view for the movie than Lionsgate, the studio releasing the movie. Alterations the studio made included changing the name from the original Daughter of God to Exposed, as well as changing the focus of the movie onto the character played by Keanu Reeves during the editing process. These unwanted changes led to Linton asking for his name to be removed from the film, instead being listed as Declan Dale, a pseudonym in the vein of Alan Smithee.[2][4][5][6]

Personal life

Linton holds a graduate diploma in physics and is married to actress Melissa Linton née Mercedes Cardello.[1]

Filmography
  • 2001: No Mirror Land (Short)
  • 2016: Exposed (Credited as Declan Dale)
gollark: Then, I just gave up and compiled it on my other thing with an older kernel, where it eventually worked.
gollark: I decided to look at the code in more detail. This was a mistake. It contained thousands of lines with minimally useful comments, for some reason its own implementation of hash tables (this is very C, I suppose), and apparently its own implementation of WiFi mesh things even though that should really be handled generically for any device.
gollark: After I was able to work through git's terrible CLI enough to make that work, and "fixed" some merge conflicts, it somehow compiled still, but upon plugging in the thing, hung things again. I had dmesg open, and apparently it was a page fault somehow in the code assigning names or something?
gollark: Then I noticed that they had merged patches a lot from the repo for a similar wireless chip, so I decided to just try and merge the "kernel 5.10 compatibility" thing from that, which had not made it in yet.
gollark: There was a repo on GitHub for doing that with it, but `insmod`ing it after compiling *somehow* hung my kernel so I had to reboot.

References
  1. "Celebrity photos, biographies and more. Gee Malik Linton". setcelebs.com. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  2. Sergio (December 3, 2015). "Director Gee Malik Linton Removes Name from Upcoming Thriller Due to Studio Tampering". IndieWire. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  3. Giroux, Jack (December 3, 2015). "'Exposed' Trailer: Keanu Reeves Just Wants the Truth". Slashfilm. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
  4. Pulver, Andrew (December 7, 2015). "Director of Keanu Reeves thriller 'takes name off movie'". The Guardian. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  5. Belton, Danielle C. (December 23, 2015). "Exposed: How Keanu Reeves' Newest Film Got Whitewashed". The Root. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
  6. Jones, Bruce (January 30, 2016). "Dedicated Fan Starts Petition for Unedited Keanu Reeves Film, "Exposed"". Rush Hour Daily. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
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