Comments on: James Wan May Direct Aquaman

By: MisterQuigley

MisterQuigley — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:39:00 +0000

The awfulness of Furious Infinity aside Sean, would like to hear your guys take on the Game Of Thrones leak. Reed’s too.

By: ECONOMYpolitica

ECONOMYpolitica — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 22:14:00 +0000

All these movies sound like crap. Furious 6 was terrible. I’m embarrassed I saw it.

By: Maik

Maik — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 14:19:00 +0000

I guess I like the snarky Sean then~
And you are right with your last statement.
Hopefully Wan learned from the terrible studio intereference he encountered on “Dead Silence” and in the future will use his box office power for personal passion projects.
I also think that his independent-movies for Jason Blum(who offers directors creative freedom on a low production budget) were way more interesting than a similar movie he did for New Line/Warner Bros.which cost 3-12times as much in addition to a huge PR-budget, but had all the signs of corporate generefication.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:49:00 +0000

It’s funny that you called that statement “editorializing” because originally I had written “bigger (but not necessarily better) things” and I changed it because I thought it sounded too snarky. But I agree with you for the most part. The one good thing about doing massive movies like this is that it generally gives you more freedom to get your passion projects made.

By: Maik

Maik — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:43:00 +0000

Ok, I have to adress this editorializing: “..that Furious 7 will be his ticket to bigger things.” If by bigger you mean bigger marketing, bigger PR, bigger studio interference, bigger market research, bigger product placement, bigger movie-making-by-commitee etc. then I guess you´re right.
I think it´s really screwed up that today we are thinking that when an artist is selling out, it means he is moving up. Directing Furious 7 or Aquaman is basically eliminating any kind of creative freedom from the director´s position, delegating him to a form of factory-worker following orders, producing vapid corporate junk that is devoid of any kind of artistic touch.