Film Matthew Vaughn's walked from X-Men 3. With the loss of Bryan Singer, now Matt this is really looking like one of those cursed film projects. How quickly do you think Renny Harlin was on the phone to his agent? But really, with principal photography so close, you can bet the studio will be fishing about for a 'safe pair of hands' so that the money isn't sunk. But frankly it's just not possible to hire a Kubrick at the eleventh hour any more. Here are five directors who would probably make a decent job under these circumstances....
Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, Spy Kids, Sin City)
Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy)
Alex Proyas (I, Robot)
Wolfgang Peterson (Outbreak, Das Boot)
Joss Whedon (If they'd let him delay Wonder Woman for a while...)
Who's probably on their list? The afformentioned ...
Renny Harlin (Cutthroat Island, Excorcist: The Beginning, Die Hard II)
Rob Bowman (The One, The X-Files)
Joel Schumacher (Batman & Robin, some good films, but made Batman & Robin so...)
Paul Anderson (Aliens V Predator, Event Horizon, Tomb Raider)
Jan De Bont (Tomb Raider 2, Speed 2, Twister)
God I hope Avi Arid, Marvel Comics film producer at large has his thinking head on for this one, otherwise we'll have another Blade : Trinity on our hands.
Worryingly, there are suggestions that Brett Ratner is in the frame. Oh well, I suppose we were lucky to get two decent X-Men films...
ReplyDeleteDamn, I knew there was a hack I'd missed off the list -- that one's much better. Why not give an excellent TV director a big break -- it's a somewhat similar situation -- being given a cast, script, premise and standing sets and set to work. A Steven De Knight or Winrich Kobe. Both have done special effects and actors before. They'd to work on a budget and the studio would get something which keeps faith with the first two. Get someone like Ratner in and they'll start rewriting an already good script two weeks before the show and piss off the actors and crew because they have a 'vision' of something which wasn't there's in the first place.
ReplyDeleteOh crap. It's Ratner.
ReplyDeleteThe only good news is that with shooting starting so soon Ratner might not have time to make major changes to the script or cast. Does he really have the clout to persuade the studio to put things on hold and risk pissing off the cast while he rethinks the whole thing?