THR
Early this year, Tony Kaye — the director who had gone to war with Edward Norton and New Line Cinema on 1998's American History X — sent Daniel Day-Lewis a letter asking him to consider a screenplay he wanted to shoot. Kaye, 62, who hasn't made a studio movie since X, never heard back. "I am — excuse my French — f—ed," he tells THR. "I am in jail. I am totally in jail."
Disney/Lucasfilm's firings of Colin Treverrow, Josh Trank have drawn much curiosity. So what's the real story behind the Star Wars directors?
Grandland
A director and a screenwriter walk into a Culver City bar …
There’s no real punch line to that setup, except for maybe the outfit that Max Landis, the writer half of the duo, is wearing: a rainbow-striped top, heart-shaped sunglasses hanging from the shirt’s deep neck, and a vintage army jacket. The right side of his head is shaved. “I thought it was going to be on camera. I got all pretty for this,” he says.
Two fairly inexperienced Directors both making their big-budget studio debuts. One rose to box office gold and the other crashed and burned and was removed from a high-profile Star Wars gig. Skewed and Reviewed examine the causes in a new opinion piece.
Trank trashing the film and studio is not going to help him at all. He basically made Disney and Fox not want to hire him again.
Make a good movie with a studio that'll let him, for one.
He needs to convince the studio they have nothing to lose by letting him finish the movie the way he intended for a directors cut bluray release. The movies already a bomb. That's a BIG chance and what if, but if he could do it, and the movie turned out good, people would have more faith that he can handle the position of director on a big budget movie.
He's done a lot of damage. You NEVER bad mouth your own movie before it's been on home video for a while. Studios see that as hurting sales.
This guy is beyond overrated and comes off as a bafoon. Sure, Fox has no idea how to make a comic book movie and has too much to say about it, but to diss your own movie right before opening proves how little he deserves as a director.
I really hope he doesn't get his hands on anything remotely close to Star Wars or another comic-book movie again. Chronicle wasn't even that good! Give me a break.
It's entirely Fox's fault for hiring him as a director, knowing the product he was going to make and then acting surprised when the film's tone was a bit dark for their liking. I really wish Fox would just relinquish the rights to these films back to Marvel, maybe they'd know how to make FF4 the kind of fun sci-fi with a comically mismatched team of superheroes it's supposed to be. FF4's characters, Doom especially, are so central to Marvel lore that it would be the big deal it ought to be.
The movie sounded garbage the moment info leaked on it. We feared the worst and was right to do so.
These Directors or visionary people who take a formula, which is liked and add their own take, thus destroying the very essence of it.