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Variety: Warner Bros. to launch "auteur-driven" DC banner with "unusual story angles"
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Bobby Roberts
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In most films.
Even the super-small ones feature a level of collaboration that kinda wipes out the idea the film has a singular "author," which is fine, because the collaborative nature of film, the knitting together of so many different perspectives focused on the same artistic pursuit, is part of what makes the medium so magical at its best.
As far as I understand, Ayer still had his own cut that they tried to find a compromising middle ground for and he takes ownership for the final cut as it being the film he wanted to make, or is your argument that any film that doesn't have 100% of the creative decisions made by the director is not an "auteur" film?
Screaming Meat
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Yeah, can't argue with that. It probably comes from film's earlier aspirations toward being 'art' more than anything.
Hellblazer. Paul Bettney.
Maybe Guy *BLORK* Richie...?
-Plasma Reus-
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It's FUCKING DEAD.
Inferno313
Banned
I think that any film that gets recut by a trailer house ceases to have earned the right to be called "auteur-driven" in it's final form, yeah.
Editing the film is making the film.
Discotheque
Banned
Yeah. I think this is a great idea to set itself apart from being just another mcu. But freaking Todd Phillips is the first person you go to for kicking this off.......
Count Dookkake
Member
But just imagine a Joker inspired by GG Allin.
Inferno313
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Wag
Member
It could work if they do it right. It would never be violent enough to work.
In any event I'll be surprised if we ever see the Booster Gold movie.
PanSexual_Peacock
Member
This article has me thinking Zemeckis is probably on board with the Flash film. I wouldn't be surprised if he was the the one to pitch Flashpoint to WB.
Seriously. It's not like anyone had faith in it.
PanSexual_Peacock
Member
Do realize how much money this universe has made on just 4 films? Why would WB kill their biggest earner when they could continue to try and make things right? That wouldn't be very rational.
So then why do you think BvS qualifies when the studio steps into force a recut to force a rating change and shorten the film but not when the studio steps into force a recut to change the tone?
David Brenner edited BvS.
Lee Smith edited The Dark Knight.
Some trailer house makes a cut, Ayer approves it, this is different how? Ayer still shaped that film from it's inception.
AcademicSaucer
Member
Wonder Woman is not a bad movie but it could also use better writing and performances
But also clearly feeling the weight of setting up the JL movie and the DCEU world building...
Ocarina_117
Banned
Give me a one off, noir, batman and the hush movie.
This sounds great to me but I wonder how they'll handle it in relation to the DCEU? You can have movies within the DCEU and not reference the larger cinematic universe. That is unless you plan on have multiple Batmans on screen in different films.