Patrick Hughes (born May 13, 1978) is an Australian filmmaker, best known for directing and screenwriting Red Hill (2010), The Expendables 3 (2014), The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017), and The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021), and War Machine (2026).
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Early life
Hughes was born in Black Rock, a suburb of Melbourne. He started making short films when he was young. Hughes attended film school at the Victorian College of the Arts, graduating in 1999.
Career
After making a string of high-profile commercials and shorts, and multiple failed attempts to option a script for an action/western film, he decided to direct it himself under a short schedule and low budget, in what would eventually become the 2010 film Red Hill starring Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley and Tom E. Lewis.
Hughes' various commercials and previous 2008 short film Signs caught the attention of Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone, who was looking for new talent to direct the third installment of The Expendables franchise. Hughes filmed The Expendables 3 from August to October 2013 and the film held its world premiere in London on 4 August 2014.
Hughes was announced as the director of the remake of the 2011 Indonesian action film The Raid: Redemption with Taylor Kitsch to star, but by October 2015 once both Kitsch and Screen Gems had dropped out of the project Hughes also dropped out as director.
