Re: Dragonball Z live action !
I can't say I disagree with The Overlord, but I think his logic is completely asinine.
Final destination, really, that's the best he has? What did that get on Rotten tomatoes? Seriously they couldn't have got a proven director?
Just because a director has directed nothing but duds doesn't mean he can't direct.
I won't pretend that I have any positive expectations for this movie, but you have to remember that there are literally hundreds of directors who are literally just studio working men, not rebellious iconoclasts or mavericks or precision skilled artisans and craftsmen.
It is their job to take the projects handed to them and work on them because the upper 15% name directors we know are just wandering around wherever they like with the power of their own career heat, and without them more than half of American films wouldn't get made... for better or worse.
I know I could stand to never have ever seen Madagascar or Snakes on a Plane.
The Overlord said:
No, but they help sell a movie, a movie with a famous person is more likley to do better than one without it.
That is true, but you fail to take into consideration how many movies manage by without famous people.
I mean let's face it,
The Lord of the Rings was in my suspicion, the project of New Line executive who desperately wanted to be fired:
Unhappily Still Employed New Line Executive said:
Hmmm... A beloved series of fantasy novels almost fifty years old, that is ridiculously difficult in structure!
And it has drawn the attention and fascination of overly-literate highbrow nerds and socially escapist dorks who could possibly nitpick over everything, who exist in numbers so huge as to constitute a significant box office demographic!
I'll approve $280 million dollars for it!
And have it helmed by a guy whose resume includes puppet sex and homicidal lesbians!
I'll approve a cast that includes North, Rudy Ruettiger, who will be led across Middle Earth by a supporting actor from a bunch of late nineties movies that nobody cared about.
And our big star presence? That Nazi neighbor from Bryan Singer's biggest box office bomb and an Australian drag queen!
Oh and Liv Tyler will show up to use a guardian force spell that consists of water horses, rather than showing us her ****.
The Overlord said:
Plus do really think DBZ can just sell itself to the Ameican public. I doubt its that popular. Show a picture of goku to 50 people America and youwill be lucky if 5 know who he is. Its not that well known in America.
When you take into account that we are talking about an AMERICAN movie based on a JAPANESE property, that has seen modest success INTERNATIONALLY, and the fact that it is being discussed on a message board by a BRETON (although I am still suspicious of the True Britannianess of Mole) and a PHILIPPINOE, you'd realize that regardless of whether your claim is true or not, the brand recognition of the property in America would not be sole determinant of the film's profit.
* (I suspect the film will be financially successful in Japan, which actually relishes in foreign adaptations of their own home-grown icons).
** (I also suspect that whoever put his money on the domestic box office rights is taking a greater investment risk than whoever put their money on the international box office rights.)
