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WHEN IS MONSTER.
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Steven S. DeKnight To Direct Pacific Rim 2
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Infernostew
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Good. Now since Del Toro isn't directing it I won't have to force myself to see it.
BronsonLee
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WHEN IS MONSTER.
It'll come out when Justice League Dark does
CreeperBlocks
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
GIVE ME DR TENMA AND JOHAN NOWWWWWWWWW
Oh well I'm excited for Pacfic Rim 2
And what I'm saying is, how many times it has been because he backed out? He only backed out from The Hobbit and JLD, and he backed out from Justice League Dark BECAUSE it would coincide with the shooting of Pacific Rim 2, which then Legendary put on hold, not him. You make it sound like he props things up, gets productions going, then decides to step out voluntarily to do something else.
Every other case it's the studio saying one thing and doing another.
torre_avenue
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The track record for directors stepping up from TV series to blockbuster movies isn't exactly inspiring.
Admiral Woofington
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when's the last time a tv director of a popular show directed a good movie?
Maybe the Russo Bros? But they had You, Me, And Dupree under their belt at least.
The Russos are now in control of the Marvel film universe after filming a TV paintball fight. Daredevil had fantastic action there is no reason to think DeKnight can't make a good movie.
il Diavolo
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YES
DeKnight did not direct a single episode of Spartacus though. He was the showrunner.
The only episode of Daredevil DeKnight directed was the finale. The Russos had way more directing experience before they joined Marvel. They also directed You, Me, and Dupree. so Winter Soldier wasn't even their film directorial debut!
The Russos still had two films under their belt and a shitload more directing experience than DeKnight.
Also for every Russo there is an Alan Taylor.
The messiest episode of Dardevil was the only episode directed by DeKnight, so I'm not even close to 100% convinced that he'll do a good job. Still, it's better than the whole Roberto Orci Star Trek situation. Don't even know what Paramount was thinking with that one.
To their credit, they didn't go through with it.
They tried to though!
GhostWriter24
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Won't mean a damned thing if the script is shit. One was abhorrent.
Right, which outranks director. I have faith. #powerofpositivity
Admiral Woofington
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at this point they should have gotten Fuller, dude is in everything now after Hannibal.
Everything but a revival of Pushing Daisies
Everything but a revival of Pushing Daisies
Abhorrent? Really? It was inoffensive. Cookie cutter. But abhorrent? The scripts for the Transformers movies are abhorrent.
If Kojima were directing it, we'd get a bunch of ass and boob shots of Rinko Kikuchi.
I love Michael Bay, but are you sure the Transformers movies even have scripts aside from the first one?
That would require her to have ass and boobs first.
Admiral Woofington
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just realized but with Del Toro pushing his pet project to someone else
does this mean Kojima and Del Toro confirmed for Loud Flat Plains?
does this mean Kojima and Del Toro confirmed for Loud Flat Plains?
Well, the third one does. I think. I know that the second one had an outline and Michael Bay filled in the gaps with stuff from the dark recesses of his brain.
That would require her to have ass and boobs first.
Cold as ice.
Winter Soldier was in fact their 4th feature film, and they'd done roughly 40 episodes of TV before that movie.The only episode of Daredevil DeKnight directed was the finale. The Russos had way more directing experience before they joined Marvel. They also directed You, Me, and Dupree. so Winter Soldier wasn't even their film directorial debut!
Bobby Roberts
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Not like what? Not like getting made? Not like having a decent-ish director and a good screenwriter working on it?
Hey, it doesn't have to be a negative!
Spaihts? I literally just checked to make sure we were talking about the same scriptwriter.
Bobby Roberts
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Did you read the Alien screenplay before Scott & Lindelof had their way with it?
It was a solid script.
Passengers was one of the most praised scripts on the blacklist for awhile, too.
People should know better by now than to simply look at a credit block and assume everything that wound up in the final movie was present in the screenplay.
Decent-ish director? Steven S. Deknight's body of work as a director isn't exactly the most reassuring. We're talking episodes of of B-TV stuff like Smallville, Angel, and Dollhouse, and the least visually coherent episode of Daredevil Season 1.
The "current script" is written by Spaihts, but there's no real indication that they're going to stick with it. DeKnight is more of a writer than a director, so I would be very surprised if he doesn't do his own rewrite or even a brand new script before shooting. If this even makes it to shooting that is. Lol.
I'm aware of how fucked up the Prometheus debacle thing is and I'm not blaming him for it. I've read a chunk of the Alien:Engineers script and it was fine (maybe not great but whatever). That said, he has only two writing credits, Prometheus and The Darkest Hour. I haven't seen The Darkest Hour but I have a feeling it's probably not very good.
It's not what I would call a solid background of work.
CosmicGroinPull
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Do we have Deadpool to thank for this?
matrix-cat
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You might want to get checked out.
Should I mention his Writer awards? Including an Oscar nomination and several Saturn's.
I mean, should I mention every English-language movie he's ever made where the writing is terrible? His Oscar nomination was for a movie written in Spanish. I know you're not going to tell me that Del Toro's script made Pacific Rim what it was.
Arondight
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First time hearing this. I can't even think of a single HBO show left that I enjoy but this would have skyrocket my interests. Yeah, I'm also mixed about this news. On one hand, it's Pacific Rim but on the other hand, one of the reasons I love the film is because of Del toro and his inspirations and ideas poured into it. Not sure if having a different director is going to feel the same.
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