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Here you will find older scratches, musings and other detritus that once were located on the front pages, but have now faded.

Filed away here to collect dust and cobwwwebs in perpetuity, links may break, facts may change and data may corrupt.

On occasion I may come down here to tidy, but for the most, I prefer to leave the past where it lies.

 

Directors

IMHO, at the end of the day even with a plethora of talented artistes, shedloads of money, snazzy special effects and media hype, a film comes down to two things: the script and the director. Not having the studio interfere and arse it up from day 1 helps, Alien3 being case in point.

Take Superman Returns and Bryan Singer. Given his previous work, Usual Suspects and X Men 1 & 2 he obviously can work with a good script and turn it into a good movie. In the latter case, staying true to the spirit of the comics, perhaps tinkering some details just to make the transition to film, and keep fan boys happy whilst getting new people into the franchise. Most importantly he has an eye for detail, specifically casting, and this helps make a good film. Take Brandon Routh as Superman. A relatively unknown but good actor, who happens to look like the a morph of Christopher Reeves and the traditional comic image both as Clark Kent and Superman himself (albeit the latter with a hint of Brendan Fraser who did audition for the part, but I digress).

Contrast this then with Matthew Vaughn who is taking over the helm at X Men 3. With a history of producing British gangster films, and only Layer Cake as a directorial debut he doesn't, IMHO, have the long or acclaimed history of someone I would be confident of taking over the franchise. Take his recent comments over at Comingsoon.net

I thought maybe it would be good to do it because there's a lot for me to learn if I do it.

I'm not liking the "if" although I presume, and dear God hope, he means if he gets he job, rather than if he doesn't turn it into Batman and Robin (No hyperlink as no-one needs that movie in their collection). And so it continues...

The irony is that I haven't got the luxury of casting most of these guys, which is going to be odd, especially if I don't like what they're doing, cause I'm going to have to pull them aside and tell them to ignore everything they did in the last film

Hmmm. I like the casting. I'm aware certain people have certain gripes, but I think the cast as a whole works. Change can be good. Irreverance is usually bad.

I'm all for fans being wary of me; they've got the right to be," he explained. "I'm just going to make the film as good as I can, and hopefully, they'll like it.

Plateauing..

Vaughn is hoping that his long-time pal Vinnie Jones would be in the movie, more than likely as Juggernaut, but he hasn't signed anything yet.

Hmm, nepotism, always a good basis for casting someone.

He said that he had been looking into the [spoiler]Dark Phoenix[/spoiler] story, but admitted that he thought "bits of it are great but other bits are a mess."

Crashing and burning.

I'm not sure what the point of this post is. I think I just hope that someone reads it and doesn't kill what I consider to be a good franchise, just because he wants to play with the big boys. I hope to God I'm proved wrong. If not a plague on Fox for their handling of the whole situation with Singer.

22 Apr 2005 8:22 | (2) comments | Film

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