Comments on: Bill Condon To Push Aside ‘Salmon Fishing In Yemen’ & Richard Pryor Biopic To Direct ‘Breaking Dawn’? https://staging2.theplaylist.net/bill-condon-to-push-aside-salmon-20100407/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:00:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Chelsea https://staging2.theplaylist.net/bill-condon-to-push-aside-salmon-20100407/#comment-18258 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:52:11 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=3862#comment-18258 Why on God's green earth has Summit not reached out to Cronenberg yet?

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/bill-condon-to-push-aside-salmon-20100407/#comment-18249 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:49:06 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=3862#comment-18249 This is one mutant, cracked out movie baby.

I don't understand how either the director or the project will be helped by this association. While the director may make a big truckload of money, his looooong, slooooow climb to artistic relevance is going to take a major ding. It will just come off as a money grab by Condon. And just look at those "Harry Potter" directors. They each may have directed one of the highest grossing movies of the year but no one is begging for their services based on their contribution to the series. The box office success was seen as a foregone conclusion. Those directors get no credit for the gross (but could have received plenty of blame if the pictures had underperformed.)

And as for "Breaking Dawn", "from the director of 'Kinsey' and 'Dreamgirls'" isn't going to sell even one more ticket, but I bet it will cost Summit some big bucks to have the privilege of the tag line. So why do it?

Major fail for all involved.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/bill-condon-to-push-aside-salmon-20100407/#comment-18246 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:01:10 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=3862#comment-18246 He was clearly the most likely of the directors on that list, in my view. The man made KINSEY and DREAMGIRLS, which don't exactly compare to PARANOID PARK and MILK, seeing as how they're just run-of-the-mill hack prestige films (in that sense not unlike those of Stephen Daldry).

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/bill-condon-to-push-aside-salmon-20100407/#comment-18244 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:11:16 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=3862#comment-18244 Well…no offense to Bill Condon but Kristin Scott Thomas and Colin Firth are both well established actors now (especially Colin Firth who is just starting to eek his way onto the A-list with his much overdue first Oscar nomination this year) so I don't think that either of them would want to get involved with a director that has been making such…immature movies as of late, catering only to preteens.
BUT, I could be wrong – I notice that at least Colin Firth seems to choose projects based on the degree of interest he has in playing the character vs. the caliber of director/money offer (which is also one the things that makes him such a good character actor).

]]> By: Derf Nurfleberger https://staging2.theplaylist.net/bill-condon-to-push-aside-salmon-20100407/#comment-18219 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:46:11 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=3862#comment-18219 Because Breaking Dawn is a guaranteed huge hit and will give himself a boost with potential financiers of said projects. One (well two) for them, one/two for me.

Plus with all the wacky shit that apparently happens in Breaking Dawn he can have an awful lot of fun with it.

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