He got his start working as an assistant director on titan film productions such as Armageddon and Pearl Harbor.
Palansky made his big screen debut in 2006 with the modern day fairytale Penelope, starring Christina Ricci as a young blueblood cursed with a pig snout.
[1][2] In October 2009, it was announced that Palansky was set to direct for Sony Pictures Entertainment an action-adventure film Iron Jack, a project that sparked a bidding war in 2008.
The story takes place in the 1930s and tells of a renowned novelist and his quest to unearth a legendary treasure.
These were Mendel's Dwarf, described as a scientific love story, and Hop Frog, based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe[6] The latter was set to start principal photography in the second half of 2016, with the title changed to The Jester.