[ SECRET POST #5630 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5630 ⌋

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Comments

[philstar22]

This. See: most recent Fantastic Four movie where the writer had a movie planned, then he was asked to write a Fantastic Four movie. He just took his original script and stuck Fantastic Four names over the top. It has nothing to do with the actual Fantastic Four and is also really terrible.

[(Anonymous)]

He'd been trying to get Chronicle 2 made for years, but nobody was funding that. He just took his script and slapped the Fan4stic name on it. It was so infuriating. It was like Gareth Edwards who'd tried for years to get a new Monsters sequel funded, and was picked for Godzilla and slapped his bored soldier movie into a Godzilla movie. I'm glad the studio system is coming back and stopping these sort of auteur shenanigans. The industry needs more work-to-the-brief guys in it.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't like Edwards or Trank. But IMO a lot of the fault has to lie with the executives and studio-side people in charge of the projects. They're the ones who hired Edwards and Trank, despite the fact that they had limited experience as directors outside of indie films with far smaller budgets - Edwards went from a movie with a $500k budget to a movie with a $160 million budget - and they're the ones who presumably listened to and accepted Trank's and Edward's pitches.

And that's also why I don't agree that the problem is too much auteurism and we need the studio system coming back and directors who work to briefs. The studio system *can* work in principle but it doesn't work in 2022 because the whole cinema industry is just too weird and unbalanced. And having directors work to briefs isn't automatically a bad thing but in practice, at the moment, what that would mean is directors doing whatever development execs tell them to do. And that's not an improvement because, as noted, the development execs apparently don't have any fucking idea what they're doing.

[(Anonymous)]

I had no idea this was becoming increasingly common because apparently Michael Waldron did something like this too and his original story suddenly became parts of the Loki series.