KillerWolf
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I think for Fuchs sake we should give him the benefit of the doubt

I think for Fuchs sake we should give him the benefit of the doubt
You've ruffled some feathers hiring competing writers to work on some projects at the same time, such as with Wonder Woman. What's the strategy?
Every project is different. On some projects, we have multiple writers working together. In some cases, we put writers together who have never been a team together. And sometimes, there is only one writer whose voice is right. In the case of Wonder Woman, the right approach was to have writers pitching different scenes within the framework we created.
Fuchs was reportedly hired to write Lobo for WB/DC.
http://www.thewrap.com/wbs-lobo-lands-wonder-woman-writer-jason-fuchs-exclusive/
ugh. Heinberg's arc on wonder woman was awful, and johns has never impressed me either. While i wasn't fond of fuch's work on pan, i'd heard his script was changed a lot by joe wright during shooting, so i was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
now, all i'm think of is thor 2. I'm honestly not even sure if i'll see this in theaters now. Guess i'll just wait for the reviews.
If you base your going to see a film on reviews, I feel sorry for you. Fuchs gets the benefit of the doubt but these guys don't? I hate how people put funk on movies based on preconceived notions of this or that. As if Greg Rucka or Gail Simone couldn't write a terrible script because you may or may not have liked their WW comics writing. At least wait to see a trailer, goodness.
For me, I would've given Fuchs a chance because Pan was the only work of his I know. With Heinberg and Johns, I've already been exposed to a significant amount of their work to know whether I like them or not (and honestly, I'm having the same doubts with Johns on the Batman movie; Affleck's a talented director but Gone Baby Gone was his only good movie). I also don't watch trailers (to avoid spoilers) so that won't help me.
While I'm no great lover of critics, and usually don't care for movies that universally praised, if a movie is dumped on there's a reason for it. Sometimes there are outliers (MoS & BvS aren't great, but they're not terrible either), but for the most part I usually agree with critics when they dislike a movie.
I'm still hopeful that Patty Jenkins will be able to make a decent movie out of this (as I loved Monster), but then I thought the same of Alan Taylor & Thor, which is the only Marvel Studios movie (so far) that I didn't see in theaters.
A lot of that post was just me venting. It's just another example of Hollywood ignoring the key ingredient in making a good movie, the script. I may or may not see the movie in theaters. I'll probably end up seeing just because I'm more interested in what DC is doing nowadays than Marvel. I just hope they didn't blow it.