A friendly reminder to our users, please make sure your account is safe. Make sure you update your password and have an active email address to recover or change your password.
Yeah, you're right, at the very least MoS had the action and the visuals. Its problems mainly stemmed from Goyer, so if Rian is writing IX we have a better start there.
But, dude, at least he's not awful.
Lol, who says the Luke/Vader finale was easy? If they mean "predictable", f**k that. Even if it was, it was done well. I don't care if Marquand did it or if Lucas ghost-directed it, but it was all there. And it was so powerful, it made the terrible fight choreography powerful, cos it was pure character and emotion.
If it does, time will get kinder to it, like it probably has with RotJ itself, but won't it be a bit of a shame?
I think the thing that feels somewhat suspect about his hiring is it's hard to imagine him getting this gig if not for Jurassic World overachieving at the box office. I'm not saying that's definitely it, but it's just hard for me to imagine this happening if JW was the same exact film it was and instead did "solid" numbers. I could be wrong, but it's hard to shake that feeling. I actually liked Jurassic World, btw, for what it was. But it does kinda feel like he got hired based on the response to that film, not the actual film itself.
At the same time, it's the only film of his I've seen so far so I'm still not entirely sure what kind of filmmaker he is. Jurassic World is pretty much designed to be a big, dumb, broad blockbuster and that's exactly what it is.
Overall, I'm not super-worried about the quality of the movie yet (let's see how Episodes VII and VIII are before we start worrying about that), but on some level it does just feel like a missed opportunity for someone that is perhaps more deserving of the gig.
Where did you read that? I don't remember Whedon pitching for SW but it wouldn't surprise me. It also wouldn't surprise me if he was laughed out of the building.Joss pitched for Ep IX, but wanted final cut, $20 million and control of the marketing, so they laughed him out of the building. Francis Lawrence then pitched for IX, but I guess in a battle between mediocrity, mediocrity will win.
Joss pitched for Ep IX, but wanted final cut, $20 million and control of the marketing, so they laughed him out of the building. Francis Lawrence then pitched for IX, but I guess in a battle between mediocrity, mediocrity will win.