Cooked Auto posted:

I would like to believe they're doing this just so they can force the thread to continue and talk about upcoming movies in perpetuity.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

They’re doing it because they’re an irritating transphobic piece of poo poo.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

They’re doing it because they’re an irritating transphobic piece of poo poo.

Casimir Radon posted:

Everyone should watch Sorcerer.

Snowman_McK posted:

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After the disagreement with McQueen, Friedkin approached Robert Mitchum who, despite appreciating the script, sternly declined, asking Friedkin "Why would I want to go to Ecuador for two or three months to fall out of a truck? I can do that outside my house.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

Infamously it came out a month after Star Wars.

High Warlord Zog posted:

also watch Wages of Fear

Drunkboxer posted:

It was funny to hear him on Joe Dante’s podcast a few years ago absolutely making GBS threads on a bunch of beloved classics. Not from any reasonable angle you usually hear either, like he was making GBS threads on those big panoramic scenes in Lawrence of Arabia because he thought camels are boring iirc.

dr_rat posted:

Personally I think Wages should be paid in money not fear.

What a terrible employer.

Rochallor posted:

They had a bunch of counterfeit money made for the movie and got visited by the Secret Service because some of it got out into the money supply, and as soon as the statue of limitations ran out Friedkin said, "Yeah, it was me, I was spending it all over town."

Baron von Eevl posted:

I forget if it was that or Marc Maron's podcast where he was going on and on about why the protagonist using a bunch of racial slurs in French Connection was really vital and it was just showing the gritty truth. I know on the Dante podcast he was going on about Trump being pretty great and a smart guy and also denigrating Jackson Pollock with "anybody could do that."

Bad news for you about Friedkin's money...

High Warlord Zog posted:

Also the critics were down on it because it was a remake of a very highly regarded French thriller (or another adaptation of the source novel if you want to split hairs)(in addition to Sorceror also watch Wages of Fear which is equally great)

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Gotta go fash

Robot Style posted:

Unfortunately, that's probably not going to be the case. The stuff that requires actors and a completed script (which are usually simpler conversation scenes) are vital to the way current VFX are done.

For one thing, they're basically used as extra time/money that can be allotted to the harder stuff when it comes in. For example, say you have a shot of Sonic talking to James Marsden that you tell the studio will take a week, but you know that if you give it to the right artists, they'll be able to do it in half that time. So you're able to take the unused 2.5 days from that shot and allocate it to something that's going to take much longer. And shows like Sonic are massively underbid in order for the vendors to actually get the work, so stealing days from easy shots to give them to hard ones is a necessity.

Then once you actually get into shot work, those simple, low-hanging fruit shots can be sent along to the clients at a regular pace, so that they're seeing constant progress on the movie while the big sequences are being slowly developed in the background. So taking those easy shots away from the front of the schedule not only means that the clients are going to want to see the more complex shots earlier and more often (burning out the artists early), but the vendors are also going to run out of money/crew because they don't have the easy stuff to siphon from.

And that's not even getting into the actual creative stuff. Big full-CG sequences are usually also the ones that take the longest to edit, which means that the VFX artists won't be working with a locked edit, and might find that any given shot is suddenly cut from the movie (which means they just did a bunch of wasted work), or maybe new shots are added that the vendor can't afford to do because they spent all the money on stuff that was omitted.

And all this is going to be exacerbated by vendors starting to lay off artists due to the strike delaying incoming work. It's a really common practice for VFX vendors to borrow artists from one show in order to throw them onto a show that's in crunch, but if Sonic is the only show in the building, there will be nobody to borrow artists from.


Crunch is also just expected on most shows nowadays, regardless of how smoothly they go. I've been on projects where artists asked for a couple of hours of overtime in order to finish what they were doing and put it on the farm to render overnight, but were denied because overtime needed to be saved for crunch. Never mind that having an artist come in the next morning to do two hours of work and then sit idle for the entire rest of the day while they waited for the farm was what was going to cause the crunch in the first place...

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How To Train Your Dragon, the live-action retelling of 2010's animated film of the same name, has put a halt to production in the United Kingdom. According to Screen Daily, How To Train Your Dragon was due to start filming in Belfast’s Titanic Studios in August, originally set for a March 2025 release date.

How to Train Your Dragon will be produced by Marc Platt Productions. Dean DeBlois, who wrote and directed the original film, is set to return to both roles for the live-action adaptation. It was reported in May 2023 that Hiccup and Astrid would be portrayed by Mason Thames and Nico Parker, respectively.

Tars Tarkas posted:

The strike might kill the live-action How To Train Your Dragon remake

muscles like this! posted:

The Gran Turismo movie is getting some bad press due to their reworking of an actual accident to better fit their narrative. In 2015 the guy the movie is based off of crashed during a race and ended up injuring several spectators with one dying. The film moves the accident to a previous race earlier in his career to make it seem like it was a setback he needed to overcome.

Grendels Dad posted:

What's (not) next, live-action Wreck-it Ralph?

muscles like this! posted:

The Gran Turismo movie is getting some bad press due to their reworking of an actual accident to better fit their narrative. In 2015 the guy the movie is based off of crashed during a race and ended up injuring several spectators with one dying. The film moves the accident to a previous race earlier in his career to make it seem like it was a setback he needed to overcome.