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Disney buys Marvel
Dazed:
I, Robot was quite a ways from being decent. I would go with staggeringly mediocre at best.
Hat:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 01 Sep 2009, 15:39 ---Also, I, Robot was decent. He was also only co-writer. Seriously, the dude's resume looks like a checklist of awful action movies.
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I like how being a writer basically excuses someone from all responsibility for a movie
KvP:
Actually writers are often the last people responsible for how movies turn out. Sure, they write up what's supposed to go into the movie, but once it leaves their hands there are studio people, MPAA people, not to mention script doctors and auteur directors who all put their own spin on the story. For example, Quentin Tarantino wrote the original script for Natural Born Killers (hence an explicit reference to the future Kill Bill movies at the beginning that ties it into QT's movie universe) but he ended up disowning the film because Oliver Stone exercised too much control over the finished product, turning it into a ham-handed message movie about the sensational media. Also if you listen to the Director's Commentary for the Steven Soderbergh film The Limey, he invites in the original screenwriter for the film, and over the course of the film the screenwriter continually blasts Soderbergh for fucking with his vision and they debate the merits of the final product. It's actually quite fascinating.
Which isn't to say that Goldsman is brilliant and has been fucked by the industry, just saying, his status as a writer doesn't necessarily confer any special responsibility for his films.
Tom:
Wait, Goldsman is producing isn't he?
satsugaikaze:
"Join us, we have financial security"
Pussies. =P Kidding, of course. Thanks for the info, it makes the deal sound slightly more reasonable now.
From the article I read, Marvel's income seems to be up in the hundreds of millions due to licensing and film. Also, from what the article states, Disney aren't going to touch the fuck out of Marvel's releases at all, at least for the next few years.
Unfortunately, Sony can still release as many Spidermans as they want, which is probably the only thing I'd want Disney to have a hand in (to stop the bloody idea, of course).
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