What are some failed franchises? I'm talking what execs and directors were thinking was gonna be THE NEXT BIG THING but never came to pass. Rebel Moon comes to mind for me on that end, at least with how it's going right now.
What are some failed franchises?
Dune
Yeah Lynch's dune was a total misfire, thankfully Villeneuve got it right over 30 years later.
After Dune 2
The directors cut will change that
Then why not make that the original release?
I'm so fricking tired of Sneeder getting "do-overs" for his garbage films. You can't "patch" films as if they're fricking video games, frick off.
I think you fundamentally misunderstand what a directors cut actually is. It's not a "do over". In this case it was part of the deal that he made with Netflix that in order to make his R rated heavy metal inspired Sci fi film, Netflix wanted him to deliver a 2 hour pg 13 version for mass audiences. So you comparing it do a video game patch makes no sense because the R rated version is the original vision from the script. He literally filmed multiple versions of the same scenes specifically for the directors cut so it's not like he's retroactively going back to change things after the fact.
*FART NOISE*
So even going in knowing the deal Snyder was incapable of making a decent cut.
You're a fricking moronic slave
His cut will still be shit and you are gay
Nobody fricking cares about it. People only cared about ZSJL because it was characters people were invested in
>directors cut
Huh? Why is there a non-directors cut? I don't think Netflix usually has a problem with sex or violence. Could it be that it's a scam to generate hype?
how does Snyder keep getting work after Sucker Punch?
jeets love snyder, there are billions of them
he truly is pajeet director in white skin
Shameless cash grab looking to cash-in on YA dystopian trend after the success of the Hunger Games, but didn't have the one thing that young women actually find compelling -- love triangle
>They split the final book into two films
>They never released the second film
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Kek, isn't Crowe 6ft? the height disparity would have worked since hew was meant to be this "looming presence" in the background.
The Mummy would have been good if it was the first installment of an Indiana Cruise series, and didn't have him get infected with Mummy AIDS. Even retaining his undead sidekick.
They were like one good story-session off cracking a proper billy dolla franchise.
The monsters should have been in the background the adventure aspect. And Crowe's org been way way way in the bg until like the second movie brief several, then full appearance in the third. Maybe with Hyde appearing as a shadowy force here and there. Flip the idea that Crowe is keeping "the monster" under control, and have Hyde using Jeckl as the org's front man. Later have some joke about him "Wrestling with his better nature", like he's a mix of Vader/Palpatine in one.
Give each monster a magical doohickey if you need a mcguffin to connect the adventures across 3 - 5 films. Cruise doesn't even know what they are as he picks them up through his adventures, or his undead buddy keeps telling him they're important, because he gets a weird vibe off them, but Cruise is still looking for "The Big Score". Like they represent man's conflict between material comfort and "spiritual wealth".
Crowe is 5'10"
Did they really edit out a crane in Russel Crowe's hand? What is wrong with these guys that they're making these bizarre decisions?
>Did they really edit out a crane in Russel Crowe's hand?
No, it's his strange nerve tick. He does this "holding invisible cane" thing for ages.
Sofia is the kiss of death to cinematic universes.
District 9. blomkamp is a massive moron for not doing anything about it.
Pretty good ending. Leave it at that.
Keep in mind this delusional frick wanted to make trilogy for Chappie but his movie flopped so badly it ruined his entire career and reputation as a director, he's still renting free about his alien film cancellation.
Chappie was gay as frick
Kino ending, leave it that way.
nu trek reddit shit.
Why the frick did Netflix try to make this a franchise, all that did was set it up for more failure. It could have been a standalone edgy sci-fi action, which is totally fine.
That's what it is, it's just one that's the length of six movies and an animated series or whatever. Snyder pitched the whole ball of wax at once, it's not like an honest to goodness franchise where they're making more of something because of popular demand, Snyder just a stand alone that was so bloated he couldn't fit it into a single movie. Did the same thing with Army of the Dead.
>It could have been a standalone edgy sci-fi action, which is totally fine
Rebel Moon is hot steamy garbage. I don't care if it is a 2 hours long cut, 6 hours long, or 12 hours long. I don't care who edited it, it's always going to be shit because the problems are not the lack of sex and gore, they are generic story, bad generic characters, laughable dialog, weak acting, incompetent direction. It's total shit.
How long are they locked into this catastrophe? Can they pull the plug now or do they still have to let sneeder make more of his garbage?
Can I watch that already or is part III coming soon?
They're going to shoot 3 and 4 together. They're already written, but that's it.
Nice, I'll wait then
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, comes even remotely close to TWD and the idiotic attempt to make it into a franchise in the first place. It's kind of entertaining by itself to observe as bunch of idiots is still fricking trying to make that shit work, even if the gravy train ride off a fricking decade ago, before they even tried in the first place.
People are so astonishingly stupid
Netflix gave Zack Snyder a blank check and he's doing what he wants with it. This isn't about supply and demand, this is about Netflix building themselves up as a home for big names' dream projects. Quality, marketability, whatever, are not a consideration. You homosexuals are all like "But I don't LIKE IT, WAAAAAAHHHHHH"
You're fricking irrelevant
>and he's doing what he wants with it.
Oh trust me. We know
I think they had big plans for After Earth as a franchise
This arguably was ground zero for Will Smith's JUSTing
Production on Empires of the Deep started in ~2005, with actual shooting starting in 2009, aiming at a 2011 release. The film had an official budget of $130 million (although many people who worked on the film claim that the initial budget was much lower… but unintentionally ended up becoming much higher later), and was supposed to the franchise that dethroned Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings etc., with an animated series, multiple video game spin offs, and a theme park all in pre-production while the film was shooting.
As of 2024, Empires of the Deep remains unreleased.
>As of 2024, Empires of the Deep remains unreleased.
lmao never even heard of it, though I am curious wtf happened
Oof this looks moronic
I had never heard of this
Aquaman did it better
>China thinking they can deliver a franchise
Kek
Franchises live and die the whims of the Chinese public.
>Rings of Power
>Wheels of Time
>Last of Us
>Marvel after endgame
>Star Wars after Disney got their grubby little claws all over it
>Bonus vidya round: Starfield
golden compas & john carter
poor man's dune part 2
I don't think anything is ever topping John Carter and Lone Ranger.
this was setting up a Spider-Man Cinematic Universe, the first one being Sinister Six in 2016
on the same note
>Morbius
Mutant Chronicles
Tron
Treasure Planet