Maybe he figures since he's got Bladerunner and Alien on his dossier that at this point he can just screw around and pull random crap out of his ass without fear of sullying his reputation. As vapid, uninteresting, and utterly banal as this sounds, in a world of Underdog remake films and American Gladiator revivals, I wouldn't be all that surprised to see "Hungry, Hungry Hippos" coming up next. Hell, I thought it was funny when they had the idea on Robot Chicken, but at this point, it might well be a reality. :-P
The standards of what the American public is willing to swallow for their entertainment have become increasingly minimal. I have to say this sound rather uniquely ludicrous in its conception, but I hesitate at this point to assume the bar is set anywhere other then about fifty kilometers beneath Hades' asshole in the deaths of Tartarous somewhere. Every time bullshit like this crops up, somewhere, a serious piece of film isn't getting funding, and its a shame. We're getting the media equivalent of bookstore's shedding their literature and science fiction sections in favor of racks upon racks of Daniel Steele.
I have no idea what sort of twisted logic would drive a man clearly capable of superb film making to venture into the realms of utter irrelevance, but maybe I give him too much credit.
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The standards of what the American public is willing to swallow for their entertainment have become increasingly minimal. I have to say this sound rather uniquely ludicrous in its conception, but I hesitate at this point to assume the bar is set anywhere other then about fifty kilometers beneath Hades' asshole in the deaths of Tartarous somewhere. Every time bullshit like this crops up, somewhere, a serious piece of film isn't getting funding, and its a shame. We're getting the media equivalent of bookstore's shedding their literature and science fiction sections in favor of racks upon racks of Daniel Steele.
I have no idea what sort of twisted logic would drive a man clearly capable of superb film making to venture into the realms of utter irrelevance, but maybe I give him too much credit.