The Official Choose A Director Thread

[Webhead2006]

true there spidey.

 

[Anita18]

I agree, the studio should not lay down too much punishment for the sins of the father. A hardcore studio controlled flick isn't whats needed to make money anyhow.

And yes despite the disappointment of Pirates 2 and 3 I'm still hoping for a Verbinski helmed Superman movie. IMHO he did as good a job as he could working with subpar scripts.

Hmm, I can see Verbinski working with Supes okay. Pirates was fun and not very heavy, and had admirably thought-out mythology considering it was only based on a Disneyland ride. It's a laughable premise, but they did a lot better with it than I expected.

true, but hes made a bunch of short films and they were all done in the same style.

I agree. YouTube has a few of his ad campaigns and music videos:




The second one is A LOT like District 9, in that it involves a technologically-superior being and military being hired to take him down. And the mock documentary style.

He hasn't made a lot of movies, but similar to Nolan, we can get an idea of what interests him as a filmmaker. It's actually super-easy with Blomkamp considering his existing body of work - he likes aliens and robots and sci-fi, and likes to develop ideas about how humans negatively react to something different from them. (From Nolan's body of work in 2003, all you could really get was that he liked making movies about obsession, which is a much more general idea.)

I don't really see that being the right approach for Superman. We need wonder and alienation, but the thing about Superman is that the feeling of alienation is with him. People on earth more or less welcome him with open arms, but he feels different because he's the only one of his kind.

I'm trying to think of directors who could really capture the wonder of Superman, and all I'm coming up with is Pixar. And old-school Spielberg.

 

[dark_b]

call me crazy but if Blomkamp has the talent that i think he has then he is better then a superhero summer franchise. let him get a chance to make again something original. show hollywood that it is possible.
because i want the same director for the sequels. and i dont he should do every 2 year a superman movie. this kind of people need freedom to express their vision. of course like with Cameron he needed to make Aliens to get more money. but i think htis will not be a problem now that Blomkamp is Jacksons ''son''.

 

[Anita18]

call me crazy but if Blomkamp has the talent that i think he has then he is better then a superhero summer franchise. let him get a chance to make again something original. show hollywood that it is possible.
because i want the same director for the sequels. and i dont he should do every 2 year a superman movie. this kind of people need freedom to express their vision. of course like with Cameron he needed to make Aliens to get more money. but i think htis will not be a problem now that Blomkamp is Jacksons ''son''.

Psh, you saw what happened with Nolan. Get a superhero summer franchise under his belt after a few small films, earn the studio a billion dollars, then get a huge budget and carte blanche to do whatever the f*** he wants.

Of course, everything has to fall into place for that to happen, but if Blomkamp is truly that talented, he could elevate whatever he touches to the level of D9. Or hopefully better, since it would be a shame for someone of that talent to stagnate after his first feature-film movie.

 

[dark_b]

Nolan didnt have Peter Jackson as the hollywood dady.

 

[Anita18]

Nolan didnt have Peter Jackson as the hollywood dady.

What is that supposed to mean? Like how James McTeigue always comes with the Wachowski Bros?

 

[Timstuff]

Francis Lawrence

He would be good. Also, the Director's Cut of I Am Legend is superior to the theatrical one, so if anyone here hasn't seen it I recommend giving it a rent.

 

[dark_b]

What is that supposed to mean? Like how James McTeigue always comes with the Wachowski Bros?

maybe. come on without PJ he wouldnt do Halo and without him he wouldnt do district 9.

 

[dark_b]

He would be good. Also, the Director's Cut of I Am Legend is superior to the theatrical one, so if anyone here hasn't seen it I recommend giving it a rent.

i think he has enough experience to make a movie and is not a guy who would experiment. from him and WB i would expect a normal fun superman movie for the masses.

 

[Anita18]

maybe. come on without PJ he wouldnt do Halo and without him he wouldnt do district 9.

That has nothing to do with his actual directing ability though. PJ just got the door open for him, Blomkamp still had to walk through it.

I think Blomkamp has enough clout from D9 now that he can handle himself.

 

[dark_b]

That has nothing to do with his actual directing ability though. PJ just got the door open for him, Blomkamp still had to walk through it.

I think Blomkamp has enough clout from D9 now that he can handle himself.

he did help him a little. he said it in some comic con interview.

 

[Timstuff]

i think he has enough experience to make a movie and is not a guy who would experiment. from him and WB i would expect a normal fun superman movie for the masses.

If there's one thing that a Reboot needs after SR, it's to be low risk. I don't mean it should be a cookie-cutter rehash of the origin story, but that I don't think the world is quite ready for someone to come in and say "I've got an idea that's going to completely flip the Superman mythos on their head!" Bryan Singer had the "brilliant" idea of Superman leaving Earth for 5 years and coming home to discover Lois had plopped out a little bastard, and look how that turned out. The next movie needs to wet people's appetites for all things Superman, and then in the sequels they'll have more room to expiriment.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

Neil Blomkamp? No thanks. I'd rather see him helm another original screenplay of his instead of Superman and/or the inevitable District 9 sequel.

 

[Webhead2006]

i would be down for gore.

 

[dark_b]

gore?

 

[GreenKToo]

Verbinski's name was rumored last year. Along with the Wa-*POW*-skis

 

[Nightmare]

Gore in a superman flick? Wut?

 

[Webhead2006]

I was talking of the pirates director like others have said he is someone i would be down with as a potential director, along with others. I said it before i have no clue who would be best for superman, i hope who ever is picked i can get behind.

 

[Anita18]

he did help him a little. he said it in some comic con interview.

I don't quite get your rationale. You opine Blomkamp is talented on his own and is too good for a summer blockbuster franchise, then you claim that without Peter Jackson, he couldn't have done District 9. If he were so talented, wouldn't he be able to do another movie on his own just fine?

I agree that without Peter Jackson, he wouldn't have gotten the opportunity to do District 9, but from seeing his other work, District 9 has his stamp all over it and I believe all of the actual directing work is Blomkamp's.

 

[jaymes_e06]

^Even Peter Jackson admits it was Blomkamps film. People saying that is getting old.

 

[dark_b]

^Even Peter Jackson admits it was Blomkamps film. People saying that is getting old.

was this for me? because i never said it was not hes film. i said he helped. advice and so on.

 

[dark_b]

I don't quite get your rationale. You opine Blomkamp is talented on his own and is too good for a summer blockbuster franchise, then you claim that without Peter Jackson, he couldn't have done District 9. If he were so talented, wouldn't he be able to do another movie on his own just fine?

I agree that without Peter Jackson, he wouldn't have gotten the opportunity to do District 9, but from seeing his other work, District 9 has his stamp all over it and I believe all of the actual directing work is Blomkamp's.

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?

 

[jaymes_e06]

was this for me? because i never said it was not hes film. i said he helped. advice and so on.

No. Just in general I think it's getting old.

 

[dark_b]

on the other hand do you expect PJ to say'' yeah i did 20 % on this movie''? this is hollywood.

 

[BestGirl]

Hmm, I can see Verbinski working with Supes okay. Pirates was fun and not very heavy, and had admirably thought-out mythology considering it was only based on a Disneyland ride. It's a laughable premise, but they did a lot better with it than I expected.


I agree. YouTube has a few of his ad campaigns and music videos:




The second one is A LOT like District 9, in that it involves a technologically-superior being and military being hired to take him down. And the mock documentary style.

He hasn't made a lot of movies, but similar to Nolan, we can get an idea of what interests him as a filmmaker. It's actually super-easy with Blomkamp considering his existing body of work - he likes aliens and robots and sci-fi, and likes to develop ideas about how humans negatively react to something different from them. (From Nolan's body of work in 2003, all you could really get was that he liked making movies about obsession, which is a much more general idea.)

I don't really see that being the right approach for Superman. We need wonder and alienation, but the thing about Superman is that the feeling of alienation is with him. People on earth more or less welcome him with open arms, but he feels different because he's the only one of his kind.

I'm trying to think of directors who could really capture the wonder of Superman, and all I'm coming up with is Pixar. And old-school Spielberg.

I wouldn't mind changing that up. Let's see some different reactions from Metropolites when Superman first shows up. Some people should see him as an escaped science experiment, some an alien, others a god come to Earth. Either way, his appearance ought to inspire some trepidation and confusion among the world's population, even if he is saving lives. Seeing humanity's first reactions to Superman would be one of the pluses of an origin movie, and Luthor could play on the inevitable fear to attempt to turn society against Superman. Save the welcoming arms for sequels, I say.