Range Media Partners Signs Filmmaker Dexter Fletcher

EXCLUSIVE: Range has signed Dexter Fletcher, the BAFTA-nominated English film director and actor, for representation. These days, Fletcher is best known for his work behind the camera. This has included being called in to complete Bohemian Rhapsody, the Oscar winner starring Rami Malek as Queen’s Freddie Mercury, as well as directing such films as Rocketman, Eddie the Eagle and Ghosted. Most recently, Fletcher directed the Apple TV (fka Apple TV+) film Ghosted, starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas, which marked his debut in directing a large-scale action production and was the most-watched movie debut for Apple at time of release. Prior to that, he exec produced and directed on Paramount+’s The Offer, a panoramic 10-episode series about the making of The Godfather, which earned Critics Choice Awards nominations for Best Limited Series, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. The series served as the debut project from Fletcher’s production company DXD Films. Fletcher’s Elton John biopic Rocketman was a Best Picture nominee at the BAFTA and Golden Globe Awards, won Taron Egerton a Golden Globe for Best Actor and won John and his longtime collaborator, Bernie Taupin, their first joint Academy Award. Fletcher made his directorial debut with 2011’s Wild Bill, which delved into the world of blue-collar criminals, and earned him a nomination for a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut and two Writers Guild of Great Britain Awards. Subsequent feature efforts included the romantic musical drama Sunshine on Leith, which was nominated for five Scottish BAFTAs, and the comedy-drama Eddie the Eagle, the whimsical but triumphant true story of offbeat Olympic ski jumper Michael “Eddie” Edwards, starring Egerton and Hugh Jackman. Watch on Deadline Fletcher began his entertainment career as an actor at the age of six. He played the gangster kid Baby Face in Alan Parker’s 1976 comedy Bugsy Malone before going on to roles in seminal productions such as David Lynch’s Oscar-nominated The Elephant Man and Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio. Additional screen credits include the British TV show Pres Gang and Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Fletcher continues to be represented by CAA and Sloan, Offer Weber & Dern.