After reading that Jurassic Park 4 thread, I've come to think that a lot of crap movies are getting far too much freedom by the Producers.
I mean, I've watched all the extra features on the Alien Quadrilogy Boxset, and most of those guys were thrown to the wall and suckerpunched, like the writer for the first movie, and of course David Fincher. The writer [Dan O'Bannon?] got completely shat upon with the producers trying to re-write the script, and Fincher was basically thrown into the movie with any plot to really go by. Finchers debacle was the rpoducers fault, but Dan's script did need help at the time.
Now look at some of todays movies. Gigli, Garfield, Cat in the Hat, Cat Woman, Ecks vs. Sever, basically anything directed by Uwe Boll, the JP4 story, and that original Superman Script. I mean, seriously, Everyone here can tell you that these movies looked horrible from the get-go, how the hell did they even get past the writing phase when they completely butcher something which had already been written?
I've read Sami Rami was also given pretty much full control over both the Spider-Man movies, which was a good thing in the end, but it's like Producers are just throwing money away at the moment. What's the deal?
Has this always happened, or since I'm now a bit more wiser I can see this crap coming? Is these a level of Producer/Writer/Director control that should be necessary?
I mean, I've watched all the extra features on the Alien Quadrilogy Boxset, and most of those guys were thrown to the wall and suckerpunched, like the writer for the first movie, and of course David Fincher. The writer [Dan O'Bannon?] got completely shat upon with the producers trying to re-write the script, and Fincher was basically thrown into the movie with any plot to really go by. Finchers debacle was the rpoducers fault, but Dan's script did need help at the time.
Now look at some of todays movies. Gigli, Garfield, Cat in the Hat, Cat Woman, Ecks vs. Sever, basically anything directed by Uwe Boll, the JP4 story, and that original Superman Script. I mean, seriously, Everyone here can tell you that these movies looked horrible from the get-go, how the hell did they even get past the writing phase when they completely butcher something which had already been written?
I've read Sami Rami was also given pretty much full control over both the Spider-Man movies, which was a good thing in the end, but it's like Producers are just throwing money away at the moment. What's the deal?
Has this always happened, or since I'm now a bit more wiser I can see this crap coming? Is these a level of Producer/Writer/Director control that should be necessary?