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My Problem With It.... Probably Said Before

posted 8 years ago by heresjohnny666
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I was stunned at how poor Wolfman 2010 turned out. With a cast of this caliber.

Two Oscar winners - Hopkins and Del Toro. Fantastic UK filming locations. Superb set/costume design. A wealth of 100's of years of werewolf folklore to draw material from.... And what do we get? A one dimensional, shallow piece of crap that had no scares, and ended up making two very respectable actors, look like complete twats...

Oh... Maybe bringing in the director of the smash hit Jurassic Park III could have been the problem? Screw you Hollywood...
And it looks like they have done it again with Frankenstein! Just can't wait for Creature From The Black Lagoon (set present day).

Are there any studio execs in Hollywood that aren't obsessed with gold digging profit and raping original ideas?

Because I think Dracula and Frankenstein are long overdue for big budget 'true to the source' remakes.

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[–] hbenthow 8 years ago

Oh... Maybe bringing in the director of the smash hit Jurassic Park III could have been the problem?

Joe Johnston is a very talented director. He has made several movies that ranged in quality from very good to downright excellent ("The Rocketeer", "October Sky", "Captain America: The First Avenger", and "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"). The problem is that he was brought in very late in the production of "The Wolfman". The production was in a shambles, and Johnston was brought in to salvage it at the last minute. He was given only three weeks of pre-production time (as opposed to the thirty weeks of pre-production time he got for the next movie he directed, "Captain America: The First Avenger"). And because the shooting and post-production schedules were also rushed, he had to make do with hastily-rendered CGI to save time. It's a miracle that he was able to do as good of a job as he was.

Here's a quote from Johnston about the difficulties he encountered with the project:

I had three weeks of prep on Wolfman, a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I’ve ever let finances enter into the decision process. Money is always the wrong reason for doing something that requires passionate devotion. The production was a leaky, rudderless ship in a perfect storm suffering from bad decisions, infighting, reluctance of the powers-that-be to take responsibility, and too many under-qualified cooks in the kitchen. The good news and bad news about directing is that when the picture works you’re showered with all the credit and when it doesn’t work you’re dumped on with all the blame. Both scenarios are undeserved. I take full responsibility for The Wolfman not working because it goes with the territory.

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