Huh, the wife-beating thing was news to me. That’s much worse.
And reading about it, it’s terrible how little coverage it seems to have gotten.
People were ready to hang him on twitter at the time sans any evidence. It sounded like another ugly celebrity divorce being played out in the tabloids and the court of public opinion.
Vic Fontaine? He was a lounge singer, not jazz.
I thought Harry Potter was wholesome family entertainment?
More like five & dime pre inflation.
When?
Technically speaking, TOS used stuff from the dollar store too. It’s all in how you use it. 😉
I think we’ll get a restored OOT on Blu Ray before we ever get a true unvarnished account of what went on behind the scenes on this film.
And Guardians Of The Galaxy is the exception to any perceived Marvel “formula”. If anything, it’s success allowed James Gunn more freedom with the sequel.
Before the troops blow the door into the Blockade Runner, various things are heard. Doorbell ring, knocking, jiggling the lock, Chevy Chase saying “Candygram?”.
All I wanted to say was I wanted to see Billy Dee’s take on Two Face, as the 1989 film cast him as Harvey Dent. I wasn’t the only one with a reasonable expectation back then that he would become Two Face in a sequel.
If anybody had a problem with his casting back in 1989, I don’t recall it.
Continue to suck any fun out of this thread without me.
It is admittedly difficult to change the race of some characters, but really, Harvey Dent could have easily been played by Billy Dee Williams, and I would have enjoyed to see his take on the character. As was said, Tommy Lee Jones could have done a good job if he’d played him straight. Jones is a great actor. But I thought Williams could have really taken an interesting approach.
Uh, he did play Harvey Dent in the 1989 Batman movie?
It’s Two Face he was denied until the Lego Batman movie this year.
They really should have given Billy Dee Williams a shot at the role. He was Harvey Dent in the first film after all.
Sorry if this comes across as racist, but Bill Dee Williams is black. Harvey Dent/Two face is white in the comics. I’d be saying the same thing if a while actor were cast as John Steward(Green Lantern).
I don’t see how they can scrap five months of footage.
Kenny Baker was waterproof. 😉
Every time the White House gets cute by not allowing video of the press briefing, the media should cut to puppets lip synching the whole thing, or just a still photo of Sean Spicer in his Easter Bunny suit animated Terry Gilliam style. 😃
Disney can’t spin doctor the Director’s Guild.
My eyes are so bad, 480p doesn’t look much different than 720p…I just don’t like feeling like I’m getting short-changed. I’m pretty sure Ray Charles liked to hear that his house looked nice.
Easy to forget Batman Returns was criticized as being too dark for the kiddies. Even McDonald’s got flak for Happy Meals tied to the film, so of course the pendulum was going to swing the other way once Warner Bros. suits got nervous.
Schumacher can make a good film. I thought Phantom Of The Opera was great.
Not pimps…Love Brokers!
Nobody is going to remember where that’s from.
Ron is a good solid choice. I don’t know if he’s the sort who has a “vision”, but he’s helmed plenty of complicated FX heavy films.
Maybe he can work in a real zero gravity sequence shot aboard the Vomit Comet as he did for Apollo 13.
Going from that to Ron Howard is quite a reversal. But Ron is a fantastic director. I haven’t seen all of his films, but that ones I have I have loved. The film is in good hands.
But what’s he done recently?
He did Inferno with Tom Hanks last year. (Another adaptation of a book by that Da Vinci Code guy.) It didn’t light the box office on fire though.
I see what you did there.
LOL! I didn’t even realize I’d done that.
Going from that to Ron Howard is quite a reversal. But Ron is a fantastic director. I haven’t seen all of his films, but that ones I have I have loved. The film is in good hands.
But what’s he done recently?
He did Inferno with Tom Hanks last year. (Another adaptation of a book by that Da Vinci Code guy.) It didn’t light the box office on fire though.
Ron Howard is a lock to reshoot at least 51% of the movie.
There is no way Disney is going to release HAN SOLO: THE STORY YOU ALREADY KNOW directed by Alan Smithee.
Provided none of the cast has other commitments past what was supposed to be the end of shooting just three(?) weeks away before this happened. A major reshoot is going to screw up the release date either way.
The DGA retired Mr. Smithee many years ago. Not sure what the alias is these days.
First, my take of Kennedy is that she is a very skilled producer. She has worked on many projects that have gotten good reviews, award nominations and wins, and did well at the box office. Those are three signs she knows what she is doing. And she has two Star Wars movies in that category so she definitely does know how to bake a successful Star Wars cake.
I liked 21 and 22 Jump Street. Likely what they were thinking was a Han/Lando buddy movie and they picked the right guys to do it… if these weren’t characters with 40 years of history and millions of fans. A film that does not do the characters justice will fall flatter than Jar Jar Binks with the fans. So it sounds like the directors wanted to take the characters in a different direction and Kasdan and Kennedy said no. There likely was some negotiating, or bull headedness, that didn’t end well and either they were sacked for not following instructions or they left because they couldn’t impose their vision on these characters. Either way, good riddance. I trust Kasdan and Kennedy over two comedy directors. Hopefully they were able to put some good camaraderie like the Jump Street movies had, but comedy has always had a back seat (sometimes a backseat driver almost) in the Star Wars films. Whoever comes in to finish this will be overseeing the final shooting, reshoots, and editing, so hopefully they can reverse and potential damage and give us a faithful early outing for our favorite smuggler and wookie.
I can’t imagine Gary Kurtz would have let this drag on for five months.
And what the heck is a wookie? 😉
From the comments section of Variety…
"Set Dresser says:
June 22, 2017 at 8:18 amThis article sounds like it was written by their agent.
Putting aside my personal opinion that the four films this pair has made so far are, once you get past their core ‘creative’ gimmick, comedic mediocrities, with hollow narratives, paint by numbers dialogue, and wafer thin character archetypes in place of actual character of any sort, if you did any sort of reaching out you’ve got to know that pretty much EVERYBODY wanted them off the film, as they refused to follow the film, as scripted, that they had signed on to and agreed to direct. Instead rewriting scenes and forcing actors to improv, resulting in a more heavily comedic approach, against all advice, and in direct opposition to what they had been hired to make. And they refused to listen or take advice or guidance from anyone, instead seeming to believe that now they were on the film they could do whatever the hell they wanted, and no one could do anything about it.The majority of the cast was unhappy, the writer was unhappy, the producer was unhappy, the studio was unhappy, no one thought they were doing a good job, they would take advice or course correct, though they were given multiple opportunities to do so, and they certainly weren’t doing the job that they had agreed to do, so ultimately they HAD to be fired. And, frankly, honestly, DESERVED to be.
Part of me wishes someone would leak some of the footage online, just so the fans could see and fully appreciate just how far off the rails this had gone. Honestly, I don’t know if the film is salvageable, or if the reshoots will basically be a page one do-over (I suspect the latter) but even in its current state of flux, the film is in better hands today than it was a week ago, and at least now it has a chance again of being a worthwhile addition to the Star Wars legacy.
Defending the artistic integrity of directors is a noble cause, but next time you might want to find out the full story before you storm that particular barricade, because sometimes, just sometimes, it is the director(s) that are the problem and that are in the wrong and acting unaccountably out of control, and not in the best interest in the film they were hired to make. And this was very much one such case. Just ask, off the record, anyone working set on this show."
Somebody just broke their NDA, if they are an “insider” at all.
Grenfell Tower will forever stand as a rebuke to the right
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/16/grenfell-tower-rebuke-right-rampant-inequality
^ this is well worth a read.
I thought it was unaffordable and pointless green energy initiatives and the “progressive” outfits that peddle them that were the cause of this.
“The Right”, left to itself, never would have placed immigrants in that situation.
No.
We’re gonna need a bigger No.
