Even Tarratino's first film, "Reservoir Dogs" was his version (an adaptation) of Stanley Kubric's "The Killing" so you can't try to make excuses here.
Tarantino's first film wasn't Reservoir Dogs, it was My Best Friend's Birthday.
Reservoir Dogs also was primarily a low budget drama and while it may have been an adaption it wasn't directly connected to to The Killing with the public IIRC. These make expectations much lower then GL. Director's rarely go from a low budget film to a franchise blockbuster in two films which is what Berlanti would have been doing with GL and something Taratino never did early in his career. This would be like an unknown director doing a low budget film then getting the next Terminator film to direct.
It should be noted that is easier to do a movie based on adapted material since you don't have to create a lot of your story out of thin air and you should spend less money on development than you would for original material.
While expectations will be raised through the roof. Not to mention GL looks like its being groomed by WB to replace Superman if they lose those rights. It will have an enormous budget, as well. Breaking even will be hard and it will be much riskier with a director whose still a rookie directing itself and has no experience in the genre, as well. That's why Campbell makes sense since he's done more as a director with a resume that shows he can do adaptions well.
Adaptions look easier but in film and tv they are very hard to successfully execute IMO. Especially when the director has only directed very little and no experience in the movie's genre or a genre similar to it.
Obviouly if they sign Martin Campbell it won't be the same situation since he will not be directing, although he will be producing the film.
I have no problem with Berlanti producing GL.
The point is that it can be done. BTW George Lucas, Stephen Spielberg, Orson Wells, Don Siegel, Francis Ford Coppola, and a lot of others were basically unknowns before they hit it big.
I've gone over this before in another thread. Lucas had lots of experience in film before making Star Wars a hit. Which he created from scratch, I might add. Spielberg is very similar to that.
How many of these directors went from their own low budget film they created to a blockbuster established franchise with success in their second film? That is what Berlanti would be doing if he directed GL.
We have already seen. Berlanti practically retired from directing 8 years ago after Broken Hearts Club. He's only been producing and writing on tv since then, he never was a big director like Tarantino is. Even on tv he kept to comedy and drama, too. He did nothing with sci-fi that I've heard of, never mind directing it.
According to the
Variety article, Berlanti will get to direct "This is where I Leave" insead so he still has a chance to prove himself as a film director.
True.
. Greg has been around in the Hollywood circle for a while, while QT is more of a Hollywood rebel.
