Comments on: Roger Avery and Neil Gaiman Escape David Fincher’s ‘Black Hole’ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/roger-avery-and-neil-gaiman-escape-20081022/ Sat, 07 Nov 2020 17:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: stephen https://staging2.theplaylist.net/roger-avery-and-neil-gaiman-escape-20081022/#comment-2357 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:38:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=9722#comment-2357 Yeah, I’m aware of how it works, but Fincher seems to jump ship on more projects than a lot of directors. That also may be because Fincher’s potential projects get publicized more than other directors for whatever reason. I didn’t mean to criticize him for it–he’s probably smart to jump ship on some of these projects, as the films that he left during pre-production usually ended up sucking in the hands of another director (like The Black Dahlia, Lords of Dogtown, MI: 3). I’m guessing he smelled trouble in the scripting stages/pre-production of all those projects. I’m sure if there’s anything he learned from Alien 3 it’s that he wants to have all the kinks worked out before filming begins.

]]> By: rodrigoperez https://staging2.theplaylist.net/roger-avery-and-neil-gaiman-escape-20081022/#comment-2355 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:08:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=9722#comment-2355 Like all good directors and especially one that tends to favor difficult-to-sell/market pictures, Fincher likes to have many irons going in the stove. So he develops five things at once knowing the chances of getting any one of those films made is slim and then when one is ready and green-lit, he jumps on it and moves forward. Some he can save for later, some will just have to go by the wayside. That’s the way it works. Better to have potential projects on the go and keep working then to have none at all. I don’t think it’s a follow-through thing.

I think David Gordon Green does the same thing. Someone pays him to write and develop a script, he does and when that’s done and there’s no money on the table he takes another gig. He’s very aware that projects dry up, so take what you can get and make as movies as you can while you can.

]]> By: stephen https://staging2.theplaylist.net/roger-avery-and-neil-gaiman-escape-20081022/#comment-2348 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:48:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=9722#comment-2348 Damn, I thought Zodiac movie was second only to Assassination of Jesse James…for the best movie of 2007. The problem with Fincher getting involved is that the project is almost sure to never happen, or at least happen in any form that resembled what he would do with the material. This guy has abandoned almost as many projects as David Gordon Green has proposed. Still a great filmmaker, just wish he had more follow through…

]]> By: Chadams https://staging2.theplaylist.net/roger-avery-and-neil-gaiman-escape-20081022/#comment-2335 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:53:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=9722#comment-2335 I’m excited either way seeing Gaiman and Fincher’s names attached (in any shape or form). I hope more non-genre comic adaptations like this come down the pipeline. Some of Dan Clowes crazy stuff could be interesting to see onscreen.

]]> By: rodrigoperez https://staging2.theplaylist.net/roger-avery-and-neil-gaiman-escape-20081022/#comment-2328 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:04:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=9722#comment-2328 heh, i liked most of The Game, but i haven’t seen it in ages, but Mr. Anonymous has a point. Zodiac was zzz… and he’s basically right about the others.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/roger-avery-and-neil-gaiman-escape-20081022/#comment-2327 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:02:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=9722#comment-2327 Fincher level of exellence??? the same guy who ruined Alien 3, did the abzurd The Game and the overelaborated Panic Room, please!

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