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Least surprising but still welcome news.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 03:07 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 17:13 |
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I dunno, it's lovely that the whole movie gets sidelined instead of just Singer. I'm sure there are plenty of women filmmakers who would love to give RED SONJA a go.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 08:26 |
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He probably has a contract and they have to untangle themselves from him before they can move forward.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 08:33 |
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Also projects often get greenlit because a big name director or star got connected to them, so losing that big name can send the project right back to development hell.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 08:51 |
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A Red Sonja movie has been in development hell since 2010. Rose McGowan was originally supposed to be in it!
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 08:55 |
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https://twitter.com/scottderrickson/status/1095130404829327360
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 15:44 |
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Max Landis sucks as both a person and a writer. Chronicle didn’t work because of the script, it had good actors and a solid found footage gimmick. Bright was an embarrassment. I’m sure even Jesse Eisenberg has forgotten he was in American Ultra by now. Landis is the perfect example of a dude who keeps getting second chances because of who he knows. gently caress him, gently caress is pretentiousness, and turbo gently caress anyone who is willing to cape for him after the abuse allegations came to light.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 16:11 |
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Literally the only thing I ever gave him credit for doing well we’re World War Z and the Zombie Survival Guide, but I checked and that was actually Max Brooks
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 16:41 |
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He sucks. And he wrote one of the best Superman comics of the last decade. And he still loving sucks.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 16:48 |
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Fart City posted:Max Landis sucks as both a person and a writer. Chronicle didn’t work because of the script, it had good actors and a solid found footage gimmick. Bright was an embarrassment. I’m sure even Jesse Eisenberg has forgotten he was in American Ultra by now. Landis is the perfect example of a dude who keeps getting second chances because of who he knows. gently caress him, gently caress is pretentiousness, and turbo gently caress anyone who is willing to cape for him after the abuse allegations came to light. I'm sure his dad has something to do with it
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 16:59 |
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Fart City posted:Max Landis sucks as both a person and a writer. Chronicle didn’t work because of the script, it had good actors and a solid found footage gimmick. Bright was an embarrassment. I’m sure even Jesse Eisenberg has forgotten he was in American Ultra by now. Landis is the perfect example of a dude who keeps getting second chances because of who he knows. gently caress him, gently caress is pretentiousness, and turbo gently caress anyone who is willing to cape for him after the abuse allegations came to light. Look, it's Showbusiness not Showfriends. Studios have a fiduciary duty to their stock holders to make films that they believe will make money, so they really don't have a choice but to hire the screenwriter whose *checks notes* last four films were massive commercial and critical flops.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 17:35 |
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aware of dog posted:I'm sure his dad has something to do with it I dunno, Landis has made what, one feature, in the last 20 years or something? I got no doubt the name got his foot in the door, but I think Max Landis keeps getting chances because he talks a good game to old white folks who are out of touch. I feel as though he walks into a room and says hey, I my finger on the pulse, I know how to sell to the youth market. Lest we forget people fell over themselves bidding on BRIGHT. I feel like everything he pitches has the word 'reimagining' attached.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 17:56 |
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DrVenkman posted:I dunno, Landis has made what, one feature, in the last 20 years or something? I got no doubt the name got his foot in the door, but I think Max Landis keeps getting chances because he talks a good game to old white folks who are out of touch. I feel as though he walks into a room and says hey, I my finger on the pulse, I know how to sell to the youth market. Lest we forget people fell over themselves bidding on BRIGHT. He wrote the screenplays for a bunch of movies everyone forgot existed. Me Him Her, American Ultra (also directed), Mr Right, Victor Frankenstein (no, not the terrible Frankenstein film starring Aaron Eclhart, a different one, starring Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy).
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 18:35 |
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DrVenkman posted:I dunno, Landis has made what, one feature, in the last 20 years or something? I got no doubt the name got his foot in the door, but I think Max Landis keeps getting chances because he talks a good game to old white folks who are out of touch. I feel as though he walks into a room and says hey, I my finger on the pulse, I know how to sell to the youth market. Lest we forget people fell over themselves bidding on BRIGHT. I think it's more that, once you're in the door, getting kicked out has more to do with Hollywood's behind-the-scenes mores instead of public values or commercial/critical success. John Landis, while not publicly active in Hollywood, is still privately in the same golf clubs, going to the same parties, and has the same numbers in his contacts that he had when he was a public name. And so, privately, he could give the necessary nudges to get his son into those clubs, at those parties, and in contact with the people, where he can, likewise, indefinitely float and thus stay a name in consideration for projects and an influence on Hollywood. His name is known, so scripts and ideas he pitches actually end up on desks; he's getting lunch with people where he can put his name forward to take on something; and, as you noted, producers who want to make something hip and with it think "Landis," instead of literally any other name, because they already know him. So Max Landis isn't going anywhere, while people who pissed off Harvey Weinstein are still out on their rear end.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 18:41 |
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I think Landis is an okay “idea guy;” “MK-Ultra stoner comedy,” “Fantasy End Of Watch,” and “Frankenstein from Igor’s perspective” are all decent concepts. But he loving sucks at delivering a finished product. His whole career feels like an echo of the spec script boom of the late eighties and early nineties.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 18:45 |
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And lets not pretend John Landis was excommunicated from Hollywood after Twilight Zone, never to return. He had a whole other career phase after that, including a few pretty big Eddie Murphy movies and that Blues Brothers sequel in 2000. His career was never the same but it's not like it imploded either. He kept working for like 2 decades after that and almost certainly still has many of the same connections he had when he was at his most successful. The one very public exception is his relationship with Spielberg, but in the end Spielberg is just one guy.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 18:46 |
I ended up encountering John Landis while working Halloween Horror Nights in 2013. He had veto power over them using American Werewolf in London for a house, so after years of failed attempts he finally signed off in 2013 with the caveat that he be personally involved in making sure everything was accurate. He even had them install a curved ceiling in the subway set instead of leaving it open like they usually do. Then on opening night he came through with his entourage to see everything in action. So yeah, he's still out there and even has control over the film's usage in some ways.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 19:09 |
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If John Landis hadn't murdered all those people dude would've been king of the world and his lovely son king of the universe
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 19:11 |
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Calaveron posted:If John Landis hadn't murdered all those people dude would've been king of the world and his lovely son king of the universe ... What?
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 19:16 |
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Sarern posted:... What? I mean based on all the clout they still wield despite committing murder and poo poo they can still swing their dicks around like it was no thing
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 19:18 |
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Sarern posted:... What? I guess if we're being generous we can call it negligent homicide.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 19:21 |
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Calaveron posted:I mean based on all the clout they still wield despite committing murder and poo poo they can still swing their dicks around like it was no thing I really think it's just proof that 90% of the work is getting in the door, and as long as you aren't kicked out (which only really happens when you offend The Powers That Be), you get to hang around forever as an influence. "It's who you know, not what you know" and all, and once you know somebody, it's much, much easier to keep knowing them unless you're forced to stop.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 19:56 |
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Precambrian posted:I really think it's just proof that 90% of the work is getting in the door, and as long as you aren't kicked out (which only really happens when you offend The Powers That Be), you get to hang around forever as an influence. "It's who you know, not what you know" and all, and once you know somebody, it's much, much easier to keep knowing them unless you're forced to stop. Well I do think there's a difference between "foot in the door" and making Animal House, Blues Brothers, and American Werewolf in a span of 3 years. Once you're considered a bankable talent it takes a lot to erase that reputation.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 19:59 |
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Aziz Ansari at his return showquote:He began by saying that he loves being back in New York. He recalled a guy on the street telling him he loved his Netflix show, only to realize he was talking about Hasan Minhaj’s Patriot Act. The guy quickly realized his mistake. “‘Oh, no, Aziz, right?’ Yeah, yeah, that’s me. ‘Master of None!’ Yeah, yeah, that’s me. ‘Parks and Rec!’ Yeah, yeah, that’s me. ‘Treat yourself!’ Yeah, yeah, that’s me. ‘And you had the whole thing come out last year — sexual misconduct?’ No, no, no, no, no, no, that’s Hasan!”
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 20:24 |
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Aziz had a pretty thoughtful initial response, I thought. Did he ever actually apologize? That's a pretty good joke though.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 21:15 |
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I mean he didn’t take a swing at school shooting victims, so I’m willing to see how the conversation develops going forward
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 21:21 |
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Fart City posted:I mean he didn’t take a swing at school shooting victims, so I’m willing to see how the conversation develops going forward Pretty funny looking at the reaction to Louis CK's first return set and how many people(not itt) were defending it as like, the core of comedy itself that you can never take away from comedians and how dare you question a comedians right to try out material at clubs. Turns out that nope, you really don't have to come right back and immediately offend everyone just for the hell of it.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 21:22 |
Basebf555 posted:Pretty funny looking at the reaction to Louis CK's first return set and how many people(not itt) were defending it as like, the core of comedy itself that you can never take away from comedians and how dare you question a comedians right to try out material at clubs. Turns out that nope, you really don't have to come right back and immediately offend everyone just for the hell of it. It's almost like if you can't make a comedy career without insulting disenfranchised people or survivors of a terrorist attack, you're a lovely comedian.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 21:27 |
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I mean with Aziz as well it’s one person not several so already it’s a bonus in that you can actually buy that he’s not some monster, even by the woman’s own admission it was consensual just she didn’t feel good about it and he wasn’t working with her so it’s not some kind of horrific abuse of power situation. Then roll in the fact that he actually apologised to her straight away when she texted him, and also that the fact that while you should always respect the victim and not just say they are lying in this kinda situation where it’s only one person (not like several victims backing it up with the same pattern or story each time) there is room for some he said / she said. I thought aziz initially came out against PC culture or something and it really soured me on it if his response was going there. Maybe I’m misremembering but at least this is a decent step.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 21:29 |
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Aziz is great and I am glad he's not some rapist monster. He's just another dork.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 23:25 |
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Coffee And Pie posted:Literally the only thing I ever gave him credit for doing well we’re World War Z and the Zombie Survival Guide, but I checked and that was actually Max Brooks I actually thought the same thing
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 23:34 |
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The whole Aziz Ansari thing was a good conversation to have in the sense that he had some lovely but totally common attitudes towards consent and sex, but I think there was a lot of defensiveness around him since up until then the playbook had been pretty much 100% anyone who is called out is ejected from the public eye, and "being a lovely first date in the exact same way that tons of people are" doesn't really rise to that level. Fortunately, that didn't really happen at all.
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# ? Feb 13, 2019 03:37 |
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Fart City posted:I think Landis is an okay “idea guy;” “MK-Ultra stoner comedy,” “Fantasy End Of Watch,” and “Frankenstein from Igor’s perspective” are all decent concepts. But he loving sucks at delivering a finished product. His whole career feels like an echo of the spec script boom of the late eighties and early nineties. Lets actually hate Max Landis for more straight forward reasons; 1) The multitude of allegations of sexual conduct and assault 2) His favourite wrestler is Triple H
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# ? Feb 13, 2019 03:54 |
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Gorn Myson posted:Hes fine as a writer. I think the hyperbolic attacks on his abilities as a writer are because of his easy route into movies due to his connections and because he is clearly such a punchable little poo poo, but as far as Hollywood writers goes he is at worst competent. Those two points are true, but I'm gonna go ahead and cite the incoherency of Bright's worldbuilding, American Ultra's meandering plot, and Landis' general lack of ability to create characters outside of hard archetypes as knocks against him as a writer.
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# ? Feb 13, 2019 04:02 |
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Basebf555 posted:Once you're considered a bankable talent it takes a lot to erase that reputation. .... unless you're a female director, of course. I read an article years ago that ran up a big list of female directors whose careers had completely stalled after one bad movie as opposed to young up-and-coming male directors who kept getting handed second, third and fourth chances.
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# ? Feb 13, 2019 04:12 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:.... unless you're a female director, of course. I read an article years ago that ran up a big list of female directors whose careers had completely stalled after one bad movie as opposed to young up-and-coming male directors who kept getting handed second, third and fourth chances. The best example of this is Lexi Alexander who's career is just now recovering.
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# ? Feb 13, 2019 04:38 |
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Hollismason posted:The best example of this is Lexi Alexander who's career is just now recovering. It's especially bullshit because War Zone is possibly the best Marvel movie to date
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# ? Feb 13, 2019 06:23 |
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The weirdest part in that Landis thing is when she says 'I was worried because you've got 50 pounds on me' and his response is 'i have way more than 50 pounds on you' If he's not a sex criminal, he does a loving awful job of acting like someone who isn't.
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# ? Feb 13, 2019 06:49 |
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One time Seth Rogen watched that Frankenstein movie and good-naturedly tweeted a joke to Landis about it. Landis did not take it in the spirit with which it was intended and instead replied, through multiple messages, about how Rogen should know how the Hollywood system works and he actually just wrote the first draft and how it's not far etc. That kind of sums up who Landis is: incredibly thin skinned and can't wait to "Actually..." you.
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# ? Feb 13, 2019 08:28 |
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I, Butthole posted:It's especially bullshit because War Zone is possibly the best Marvel movie to date Yea that one is just so egregious because the movie is good. It took less than ten years for fans to reappraise it and realize how good it is, sometimes audiences just don't respond to something right away. The studio should've understood that she directed the hell out of that movie and counted it as a mark in her favor, not against her.
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