BS. There’s no evidence LFL is messing with Edwards’s vision and I doubt they would be.
Hahahaha did you even read that article?
And the guy who made Jurassic World is exactly what a “yes man” is. As long as JJ was injecting nostalgia into TFA the studio was happy with it (what happened to the screenwriter who asked for 6 more months to develop new things ? Fired… and the result on screen is an unfinished script). We are talking about Disney here; have you seen the Marvel movies ? The recent Pixar movies (fine movies, except less good than the first ones) ? What happened to John Carter ? What happened to Tomorrowland ?
Arndt was working very closely with JJ before he left. Much of what they developed made it into the film (hence the credit). But I get the impression that he never actually wrote anything. When JJ and Kasdan took over it was to finally get something down on the page and bring all the ideas together (basically to make sure there was a finished script.
This was JJ taking an even bigger role to accomplish his own vision. Disney has nothing to do with it. The Marvel films don’t utilize auteurs because Marvel wants them that way. LFL does not.
Reshoots, composer remplacement, director who won’t get the final cut, script alterations after principal shooting (“more humor”)… yep, I don’t really think there will be that much left of Edwards vision. Bullshit ? No: facts. Does it mean the movie is gonna be a failure ? Don’t know. Maybe, maybe not.
Half of this are misunderstood facts (reshoots are common place and composer change was due to scheduling; script changes are very typical as well) and the rest is conjecture.