a filmmaker of Kurosawa's stature

[keannu]

Was this written by a non-native speaker? I guess native speakers would write "the stature of the filmmaker Kurosawa", but is this way also common and normal?

st78
ex)...You must pay me," Kurosawa wrote. Leone, who was thrilled that a filmmaker of Kurosawa's stature would threaten to sue him, eventually agreed to give him fifteen percent of Fistful's worldwide box-office receipts.

 

[bhaisahab]

Was this written by a non-native speaker? I guess native speakers would write "the stature of the filmmaker Kurosawa", but is this way also common and normal?

st78
ex)...You must pay me," Kurosawa wrote. Leone, who was thrilled that a filmmaker of Kurosawa's stature would threaten to sue him, eventually agreed to give him fifteen percent of Fistful's worldwide box-office receipts.

It's fine and probably written by a native speaker.

 

[konungursvia]

Agreed.

 

[Tullia]

It's fine and probably written by a native speaker.

I agree, and I can't see a way to make "the stature of the filmmaker Kurosawa" fit into that sentence without it sounding very unnatural indeed. You could at a pinch say "...who was thrilled that a filmmaker of the stature of Kurosawa would threaten to sue him..." but I think the original way is by far the most natural.