‘It was one of those things that haunts you!’ The director of Con Air - who was also behind the iconic music video to Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up - says that the tune has become a bit of a nightmare for him thanks to the internet.
‘It was one of those things that haunts you!’ he told‘But it didn’t haunt me for many years afterwards. It was one of those shoots that was very cheap, very quick, did it one night. Rick was lovely, but I thought I’d done much bigger and more impressive stuff than that.
Simon is known for masterpieces including Con Air, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up music video The video now has 1.2billion views on YouTube, but it came from very humble beginnings. ‘Yeah, I first met Rick as the tea-maker and sandwich-fetcher and the following week I was shooting his video.Of course, in 2007, the legacy of Never Gonna Give You Up changed forever when the Rickroll came around . Weirdly, Simon hasn’t actually been Rickrolled much at all.
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