Peter Berg was also offered X3.........

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

..........but turned it down because he said it was Bryan Singer's world and he didnt want to have to follow the rules of that world, he would rather create the world himself.

The quote's are in the February 2008 edition of Empire (UK), and after seeing Hancock and really enjoying it, i'm a little bummed about yet again what could have been. No doubt the amount of production time influenced his decision also.

 

[Theweepeople]

..........but turned it down because he said it was Bryan Singer's world and he didnt want to have to follow the rules of that world, he would rather create the world himself.

The quote's are in the February 2008 edition of Empire (UK), and after seeing Hancock and really enjoying it, i'm a little bummed about yet again what could have been. No doubt the amount of production time influenced his decision also.

Smart decision for him. Only an underachieving hack director with ADD would agree to Fox's insane production time.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^Yeah, it shows at least that he is an intellegent guy who knows how to make movies, not an idiot like Ratner.

 

[Angamb]

I wonder how many directors recieved the offer.

 

[X-Maniac]

Berg's work on Hancock is hardly inspiring though - the story is full of plotholes. And in fact the Hancock movie borrows from X-Men in several places.

Given the fact that any director taking on X3 was going to be in for a bumpy ride, he made a wise choice not to do it. To make a film of that scale with eight weeks' prep time is a tall order. But by that time, the release date was booked and the actors all contracted, so they couldn't just cancel the film without having to pay all the actors.

 

[Juggernaut33]

I wonder how many directors recieved the offer.

That I've heard of...

- Zack Snyder
- Alex Proyas
- Matthew Vaughn
- Rob Bowman
- John Moore

And Peter Berg apparently...

 

[Angamb]

and Joss Whedon.

 

[Rac]

At least X2 was offered to Guillermo del Toro. Don't remember if X3 was too.

 

[Angamb]

theses days I've been thinking in Guillermo del Toro and Snyder directing an x-men movie.

Each one would give us something that didn't Ratner or Singer.

Snyder, the visuals

and Del toro the "fantastic" side of the x-men (the mythology), Beast, Kurt, maybe Apocalypse.... all that stuff.

 

[BMM]

I don't mind Berg passing on the project. I thought Hancock was average and pretty generic.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Berg's work on Hancock is hardly inspiring though - the story is full of plotholes. And in fact the Hancock movie borrows from X-Men in several places.

Given the fact that any director taking on X3 was going to be in for a bumpy ride, he made a wise choice not to do it. To make a film of that scale with eight weeks' prep time is a tall order. But by that time, the release date was booked and the actors all contracted, so they couldn't just cancel the film without having to pay all the actors.

To be fair to Berg though, the movie was originally intended for a higher rating, then he had to edit it down heavily to meet the studio demanded PG-13, i believe over 30 mins of the movie ended up on the cutting room floor. Why the studio didnt demand PG-13 from the start, when they were investing $150 million in it, is anyone's guess.

 

[X-Maniac]

To be fair to Berg though, the movie was originally intended for a higher rating, then he had to edit it down heavily to meet the studio demanded PG-13, i believe over 30 mins of the movie ended up on the cutting room floor. Why the studio didnt demand PG-13 from the start, when they were investing $150 million in it, is anyone's guess.

I'm glad that those 30 minutes were edited out if they included a statutory rape scene and Hancock's super-charged ejaculation through the roof of a motorhome.

Those aren't the problems with the film. As I said in my review:

Firstly, Hancock was injured and left with amnesia 80 years ago. And yet Los Angeles is only now getting fed up with his somewhat irresponsible heroics. What's he been doing for the rest of the 80 years? And what about before that?

Why does Mary happen to live in the same city if she is doing her best to stay away from him? How can she conceal her powers by having a normal husband and family if her powers mean she never ages or gets hurt? Why did she suddenly reveal her powers in an overreaction that led to the fridge being flung into the street? Why did she take part in a battle in the main streets of LA if she wanted to conceal her abilities from everyone?

And why do her powers include some sort of never-explained emotional connection to the weather which brings lightning and a tornado down into the centre of LA during her fight with Hancock? The weather phenomena made for great visuals, and a variation on slugging it out with superpowered smashing and punching, but seemed random and unexplained.

http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2008/07/will-smith-brings-charm-and-he.html

 

[Storm22]

..........but turned it down because he said it was Bryan Singer's world and he didnt want to have to follow the rules of that world, he would rather create the world himself.

The quote's are in the February 2008 edition of Empire (UK), and after seeing Hancock and really enjoying it, i'm a little bummed about yet again what could have been. No doubt the amount of production time influenced his decision also.

Hankcock was rubbish imo.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

Berg's other movies are pretty good though. He would've made a great X-Men movie.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I'm glad that those 30 minutes were edited out if they included a statutory rape scene and Hancock's super-charged ejaculation through the roof of a motorhome.

Those aren't the problems with the film. As I said in my review:


http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2008/07/will-smith-brings-charm-and-he.html

The 30 mins cut out contained more than that stuff, i doubt that stuff would have been put back in at all. As for some of your plot holes, i actually addressed them in the Hancock thread.

 

[X-Maniac]

The 30 mins cut out contained more than that stuff, i doubt that stuff would have been put back in at all. As for some of your plot holes, i actually addressed them in the Hancock thread.

Link? I'm not trawling through the hype to find your post!

 

[Rac]

Berg's other movies are pretty good though. He would've made a great X-Men movie.

Yeah because they don't have the dynamic duo called Will Smith and Akiva Goldsman behind them.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

Yeah because they don't have the dynamic duo called Will Smith and Akiva Goldsman behind them.

Very Bad Things
The Rundown (or Welcome to the Jungle depending on where you are)
Friday Night Lights
The Kingdom
Hancock (even this has it's moments)

Not bad at all, if you ask me.

He's also doing the Dune remake. I can't wait. t:

 

[Theweepeople]

Very Bad Things
The Rundown (or Welcome to the Jungle depending on where you are)
Friday Night Lights
The Kingdom
Hancock (even this has it's moments)

Not bad at all, if you ask me.

He's also doing the Dune remake. I can't wait. t:

If he's doing the Dune remake he better take special care paying attention to details because the Dune fans will crucify him if he makes any mistakes. What movie company is funding Dune? Please don't say 20th century Fox.

 

[X-Maniac]

Hasn't Dune just been so done? A movie, an extended movie edition, a TV series, a Children of Dune series. That's plenty! The original movie still stands up pretty well as a cult classic, despite criticism at the time.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

Hasn't Dune just been so done? A movie, an extended movie edition, a TV series, a Children of Dune series. That's plenty! The original movie still stands up pretty well as a cult classic, despite criticism at the time.

Yeah, but you know Hollywood.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

At least X2 was offered to Guillermo del Toro. Don't remember if X3 was too.

Please tell me you're joking...

I want that idiot nowhere near anything close to X-Men related.

It's bad enough he gave us the horrid "Blade 2" and "Hellboy", I don't need his crap infecting my favorite franchise as well.

 

[danoyse]

Please tell me you're joking...

I want that idiot nowhere near anything close to X-Men related.

It's bad enough he gave us the horrid "Blade 2" and "Hellboy", I don't need his crap infecting my favorite franchise as well.

Oh Nell...we need to rent you Pan's Labyrinth.

He's adapting one of my all-time favorite books into a movie and I can't wait.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

Oh Nell...we need to rent you Pan's Labyrinth.

He's adapting one of my all-time favorite books into a movie and I can't wait.

I haven't seen it yet, no, but Pan's Labyrinth is the only movie that gives me hope that Del Toro may be a halfway competent film maker.

His superhero flicks are absolutely horrible, and I am glad he's been nowhere near X-Men.

Highly disappointed that he got The Hobbit though.

 

[JP]

WHAT?!?! Del Torro is a genius. Hellboy is 10x the movie X3 will ever be, and Hellboy 2 is pure gold.