Adam Somner, an assistant director and producer who worked with such luminaries as Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, died Wednesday at 57.
The award-winning Brit lost his battle with anaplastic thyroid cancer, according to a press release shared with TheWrap by his PR agency. His other notable film collaborations included Paul Thomas Anderson on “Licorice Pizza” and “Phantom Thread,” and Ridley Scott on “Gladiator,” “Hannibal” and “Black Hawk Down.”
Spielberg, who worked with Somner on 12 films, including “War of the Worlds,” “Lincoln” and “West Side Story,” remembered him fondly as “an icon in his field” and said, “Going back to work without Adam will never be the same.”