Burning Sands marked McMurray’s feature length directorial debut, before that working helming the shorts The Daily Grill and Battle Buddy, as well as being an associate producer on Fruitvale Station.
The Purge 4 marks his jump into Hollywood territory, so it will be interesting to see how his directing style compares to what DeMonaco brought for the first three Purge movies.
Six months after Burning Sands premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (where it was acquired by Netflix), it’s been announced (via THR) that Gerard McMurray has officially boarded The Purge 4 as its director/ This makes him the first person to helm one of these movies other than James DeMonaco, who, in addition to producing, also wrote The Purge 4’s script.