The Official Choose A Director Thread

i didnt mean that PJ was holding the camera for Blompkamp for christ sake.

so you can not have talent and take help from PJ? :whatever:
Yeah, but you say that Blomkamp is too good for a superhero summer franchise. Nolan had no help from anybody (well, directing-level, obviously) and he wasn't too good for a superhero summer franchise...

You don't make sense, is what I'm saying. :oldrazz:
 
Since when did we consider the superhero genre below anyone? :o
 
well some directors/actors are not into the whole superhero thing.
 
Vaughn was the guy who was suppose to make Millar's vision of Superman so i kinda doubt that'll happen. I dont think WB/DC want to start of a superman franchise knowing hes gonna die in the 3rd movie and then they have to reboot it all over again. But it is cool to see a lot of directors talking about Superman and what they could do with it, it could mean that a lot of directors are starting to realize that WB has to make a decision to get a movie going soon, so they wouldnt necessarily be wasting their time making pitches that would just sit on a desk for 2-4yrs before anything actually happens with it.

as for Rami and Superman that would be a nightmare. That would prolly turn out terrible, we would end up with a emo Superman dancing down the street of metropolis pointing at women to some 70s song. Bay would try to make it too funny. Spielberg or Cameron would be cool, but i doubt they would wanna do it. Spielberg has been doing a lot of producing lately, not sure if he wants to go back to directing. Cameron has said the only superhero he wanted to do was Spiderman

i want a real serious direction on Superman. I dont want someone going out there with the intention of making a romantic comedy with action included. I want a scary ass villain, and epic action pieces. Ya there should be some humor included but it should be natural thru interactions between characters instead of having Clark Kent fake stumbling around the office and bumping into walls. Make it modern. i think guys like Mcteigue, Wachowskis would be willing to do that.





Do we have confirmation that Vaughn was Millars mystery director for his Superman script?
 
Yeah, but you say that Blomkamp is too good for a superhero summer franchise. Nolan had no help from anybody (well, directing-level, obviously) and he wasn't too good for a superhero summer franchise...

You don't make sense, is what I'm saying. :oldrazz:
i never make sense.

i am ''the'' dark_b :ninja:
 
Since when did we consider the superhero genre below anyone? :o
well a lot of times the director needs to follow a formula . not everyone gets so much freedom like Nolan ,Lee or Singer.

if you want to make something new and try to experment then you wont get 200 millions.

IM is IMO a fantastic fun summer movie. but its not something groundbreaking. the same with Star Trek.

p.s. i hope for Abrams that now that he will get bigger budgets and more trust that he will try to do something that noone will expect. an original story. he proved himself with M:I-3 and ST .....now its time for something original.
 
i never make sense.

i am ''the'' dark_b :ninja:
Okay, was just checking. :funny:

IM is IMO a fantastic fun summer movie. but its not something groundbreaking. the same with Star Trek.
Perhaps not, but they don't have to be. They worked very well inside their respective formulas, and if they're the new standard (as opposed to Wolverine, X3 or the FF movies), I don't think many moviegoers would complain. :cwink:
 
I honestly think alot of directors have no idea what the fans and the GP want.
One could argue Favreau including the fans, and asking what they wanted to see, contributed alot to I.M.'s success.

Yes a director should stick to his guns if he thinks his idea is the best way to go but only if......
A) he knows the source material.
B) he doesn't try to reimagine it to the extreme ( like burton).

The overall goal is for the film to be a success and have a sequel or two. Take B.B. for example. It took in less at the B.O. than S.R., but just look at the buzz nolan created for it. I dont have to say what the anticipation for its sequel, TDK, was.
The last Superman film had hardly any of the buzz afterwards that B.B. had. That's a pity too, because we could have had its sequel by now as well.

I really, REALLY, hope they hire a director that gets ALL of Superman. One that knows superman is so much more than just donner's take, and one the will include the fans like Favreau has with I.M. If not, then wash, rinse, repeat.
 
Greenktoo i too hope they can find that type of person to take the reigns on superman.
 
The overall goal is for the film to be a success and have a sequel or two. Take B.B. for example. It took in less at the B.O. than S.R., but just look at the buzz nolan created for it. I dont have to say what the anticipation for its sequel, TDK, was.
The last Superman film had hardly any of the buzz afterwards that B.B. had. That's a pity too, because we could have had its sequel by now as well.

BB ended with a Joker card being revealed to Batman
SR ended with Jason waving to Superman

That says it all right there. Is it any wonder which movie created the strong buzz afterwards?
 
p.s. i hope for Abrams that now that he will get bigger budgets and more trust that he will try to do something that noone will expect. an original story. he proved himself with M:I-3 and ST .....now its time for something original.




I agree. I would love to see JJ Abrams be hired as the director of the next Supes film. However unlikely it may seem, he would be a solid choice.

I believe he has what it takes and he certainly did prove himself with MI:3 and Star Trek.
 
Plus he knows now after the mess he made with his script years back going to far extreme isnt right.
 
why would Abrams now that he has so much power make a ''studio'' movie? maybe he wouldnt do it like hes old script. but i think he would still want something dramatic different
 
Abrams knew to get people familiar with Trek to work on the STXI script, so maybe he'd do the same for a Superman script. He wrote his original one a very long time ago, and with all that time to allow it to sink in I'd be optimistic that he'd have a better grasp of what works and what doesn't. Hopefully if he did actually helm it, he'd have the vision to use something more interesting than Lex Luthor or bad Kryptonians as the primary antagonist (and as I've said before, I think Metallo is an ideal candidate for the first movie).
 
Abrams knew to get people familiar with Trek to work on the STXI script, so maybe he'd do the same for a Superman script. He wrote his original one a very long time ago, and with all that time to allow it to sink in I'd be optimistic that he'd have a better grasp of what works and what doesn't. Hopefully if he did actually helm it, he'd have the vision to use something more interesting than Lex Luthor or bad Kryptonians as the primary antagonist (and as I've said before, I think Metallo is an ideal candidate for the first movie).
 
Abrams originally had no intention of directing Star Trek, he was only going to produce it and help get the project off the ground. It wasn't until he read Orci and Kurtzman's script, that he fell in love with it and didn't want anyone else to direct it but himself.

When Abrams was interviewed by Charlie Rose right before Star Trek was released, he actually mentioned how he was influenced by Donner's Superman, when he approached Trek.

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10273

(Around the 7:00 minute mark)
 
at this point

I can only see Abrams saving Superman.
 
those weren't "his" ideas

just as this wasn't kevin smith's

now that he has some power I'd like to re-examine "his ideas"
 
I'm not sold on Abrams... not sure he's really the man for the job. Can't get his ideas out of my head.
 
I'm not sold on Abrams... not sure he's really the man for the job. Can't get his ideas out of my head.

I read that he knows his changes weren't popular with the fans so hopefully that's shaken some of the weirder ideas out of him.
 

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