The Bourne Identity had a budget of 60 million. The Inside Man had a budget of 40 million. Honestly, it is not that this movie should have a budget the size of Deadpool, but it should not have one the size of 47 Ronin. If Doug Liman takes over, that's great, Edge of Tomorrow had a higher budget and it made back that budget and more. Yet remember, it is not considered a commercial success.
Yet Tatum's highest big budget movie, Jupiter Ascending, had a higher budget than this and barely made back its budget. So yes, Tatum can make back a budget that big when the film is bad. He did it for GI Joe as well, and that movie was the definition of average yet was also a commercial success. So I guess now, the point isn't whether or not it'll make back its budget, unless it is horrible like Fantastic Four (Which still made over the budget of this film) I don't think there is going to be a problem with the film being a commercial success.
Now, I personally think that Josh Zetumer is a good screenwriter and off of a treatment by Claremont could do great things. Reid Carolin said that the script was good, but it's his movie, so. Devin Faraci said that according to his sources, the script is really good... but this guy also said Fantastic Four was good. Yet you have to agree with one thing, the script had to be good for somebody of Wyatt's caliber to sign on yet the reason people say he signed off was because they did not want him to rewrite the script. In those reports, it doesn't say he wanted to rewrite because it was bad, but because he wanted to make the script his own. Yet, this is like the fourth project this guy has dropped out of. Arronofsky and Miller passed on the movie, the former because he's an eccentric I'd wager and the latter I'd say probably doesn't make movies like these.
I don't know. I'd rather have this over Inhumans (so is the terrigen going to be in the DNA of those animals now, or is it just like there and when you eat it it's gone or what?). You have to remember, though, movie passion projects don't always end up well. I mean look at Tammy or Wild Wild West. Or, they end up great like Artificial Intelligence and Che and Coward Robert Ford. Gambit is a passion project by the producer and lead actor, Che was by the lead actor and Wild West was by the producer.
I feel like this movie will be good, but we need to hope there isn't too much backstage turmoil.
Didn't know that Isaac wanted Apocalypse, that's really cool. I guess it happens more often than not.