Actors/Directors Who need a comeback

[Black Narcissus]

I'm always hopeful about Francis Coppola having another hit before it is too late. I feel like his name has been tarnished. He is an all time great, but he is due for one last big bang.

 

[Fallen Angel]

That run of The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part 2, Apocalypse Now is mother f'in epic.

 

[Kyle]

Christian Slater!

It needs to happen. Anyone who has seen Mr. ROBOT knows Christian Slater is being severely under utilized in film and deserves a big comeback.



He deserves a Bryan Cranston, Michael Keaton, etc. type of come-back.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

True Romance, Pump up the Volume, Heathers, Untamed Hearts, Broken Arrow, Kuffs. Slater is awesome.

 

[dude stannis]

Nicolas Cage, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren should be working with the likes of Blumhouse and a regular for a couple of genre directors like Patrick Wilson is to James Wan and Zack Snyder.

John McTiernan should pumping out a solid $30 million actioner every couple of years for LGF or STX.

Vincenzo Natali and Neil Marshall are way above doing TV, they need to take a page out of James Wan's book and start from a micro budget again and steadily increase their budgets.

 

[Rocketman]

I feel like the Wachowskis have another masterpiece like the first Matrix up their sleeves.

Speed Racer is super underrated imo. So is Cloud Atlas.

 

[dude stannis]

It's called Sense8!

 

[Sawyer]

I feel like the Wachowskis have another masterpiece like the first Matrix up their sleeves.

It's called Sense8!

Thank you!

 

[Sawyer]

Peter Jackson. After a mediocre-to-poor King Kong and a trilogy of Hobbit films that so failed to light a fire under me that I still haven't seen 2/3 of of them, I really would love for him to knock all our socks off with something great.

Part of me kind of wants Jackson to direct Dark Universe or whatever the hell they're calling it now.

 

[dude stannis]

Nah, too big, he needs to make something small, without a computer.

 

[Sawyer]

Then a somewhat lower budget Constantine/Hellblazer solo film and that's the lowest I'll go.

Starring f***ing Colin Farrell because the internet got my goddamn hopes up.

 

[Logan0327]

Michael Mann

 

[Kyle]

I'd love to see more from Joe Dante and Fred Dekker.

 

[dude stannis]

Hell yeah on Dekker. He was James Gunn before there was James Gunn. Hopefully The Predator does well enough for him to do the fifth one.

 

[Lighthouse]

Hoping Mel Gibson will make a comeback with his new film.

 

[NosfeRomas]

John Carpenter...asap!

 

[-JKR-]

Christian Slater!

It needs to happen. Anyone who has seen Mr. ROBOT knows Christian Slater is being severely under utilized in film and deserves a big comeback.



He deserves a Bryan Cranston, Michael Keaton, etc. type of come-back.

Agreed, man!
Slater definitely needs a comeback!

Also:
- Joe Dante
- Fred Dekker
- John Carpenter
- John McTiernan
- Paul Verhoeven
- Walter Hill
- Jonathan Hensleigh
- Sam Raimi
- Frank Darabont
- Chuck Russell
- Mel Gibson
- Eddie Murphy
- Jim Carrey
- Val Kilmer
- Michael Biehn
- Billy Zane
- Emilio Estevez
- Patricia Arquette
- Winona Ryder
- Mickey Rourke (yeah, again!)

 

[David H.]

I'll class this discussion up a bit; Todd Field the director of Oscar nominees like In the Bedroom and Little Children. He's got a miniseries in development with Daniel Craig but it's been too long since we saw a feature film from him.

At one point he was set to adapt Blood Meridian and remains my favorite candidate for the job.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I would argue that Mr. Robot IS Christian Slater's comeback; it may be a TV series but it's better than most movies and it won him a Golden Globe.

And yes, Sense8 might be the best thing the Wachowskis have ever done. I still love the first Matrix film but the sequels kind of ruined it for me. Here's to hoping Sense8 maintains the same level of quality that season 1 had.

 

[chamber-music]

When some folks say that an actor should comeback they usually mean as a leading man. The problem is a lot of these guys have aged out of leading man roles. Guys known for playing action heroes in the eighties and nineties probably aren't going to still be playing the same roles decades later.

Some guys like Val Kilmer, Jean-Claude Van Damme, ect don't get much work because they are notoriously difficult to work or are just *****e bags so people don't want to hire them.

I'm always hopeful about Francis Coppola having another hit before it is too late. I feel like his name has been tarnished. He is an all time great, but he is due for one last big bang.

Coppola is off making wine. The same goes for Emilio Estevez. Those guys could make films if they wanted to but they don't.

Christian Slater!

It needs to happen. Anyone who has seen Mr. ROBOT knows Christian Slater is being severely under utilized in film and deserves a big comeback.

Slater is great and Mr Robot is sort of his comeback. Slater's career went down the toilet because of his off the screen issues.

I feel like Christian Slater's Mr Robot character plays to his strengths as well. The character plays to Slater's counterculture image.

Vincenzo Natali and Neil Marshall should definitely be doing movies. I think the collapse of the mid-budget film has hit many directors and forced them to TV. Even Martin Scorsese says he struggles to finance his movies these days.

Neil Marshall seems like a great fit for Blumhouse productions.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I'd love to see more from Joe Dante and Fred Dekker.

I know of a credible story where in a conversation at a production company where they brought up Joe Dante to direct something and one of the people said, "But he's so old." This is the type of superficial stuff you see in the industry. Ageism is pretty rampant as well as relevance. If you don't have a hit under your belt regularly, people won't think you're relevant and don't want to work with you. Kind of like what's happened with Joe Johnston.

 

[Fallen Angel]

I know of a credible story where in a conversation at a production company where they brought up Joe Dante to direct something and one of the people said, "But he's so old." This is the type of superficial stuff you see in the industry. Ageism is pretty rampant as well as relevance. If you don't have a hit under your belt regularly, people won't think you're relevant and don't want to work with you. Kind of like what's happened with Joe Johnston.

And that is male in Hollywood. Much worse for actresses over 30 who have to fight for fewer roles.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Eddie Murphy and Jim Carrey.

 

[Doctor Jones]

And that is male in Hollywood. Much worse for actresses over 30 who have to fight for fewer roles.

Yup. Mila Kunis is already playing a mother.

 

[chamber-music]

Walter Hill said this a couple years ago.

The desirability of hiring directors over 60 is fairly diminished in this marketplace. At the same time, I hadn't had a good-sized hit in quite a while. And, frankly, I went through a couple of experiences that left me pretty disgusted with it all, and I was thinking the time had passed. I was just sitting at home reading magazines and looking out the window — a couple of projects I had had just fallen apart

Unless your a older director with recent hits or recognition that draws audiences like Eastwood, Spielberg or Scorsese then your out of luck in Hollywood.