A veteran commercial director who joined Ridley Scott Associates after training at Paris' Centre des Etudes Critiques and the American Film Institute, New England native Tom Dey had minimal credits outside of advertising (including an episode of the stylized vampire series "The Hunger" on Showtime) when he landed the enviable job of helming "Shanghai Noon" (2000) a western starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson as a team of unlikely outlaws.A pet project of Chan's, "Shanghai Noon" proved a challenge for Dey, who rose to the occasion, dabbling in the Hong Kong action directing style and
