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If one man is to be entrusted with designing our future, we could do worse than architecture graduate joseph kosinski. The impeccably designed and visually innovative creations of joseph kosinski, merging live action with purely digital elements, have quickly made him a highly soughtafter commercial and feature film director. Over the past week weve been talking a bunch about commercial director turned tron legacy helmer joseph kosinskis new feature film. Oblivion is directed and coproduced by joseph kosinski and based on his own graphic novel oblivion, published by radical comics.
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