Quote from: PierreVW on May 08, 2017, 05:26:01 PM
Quote from: Jonesy1974 on May 08, 2017, 05:05:37 PM
I certainly wouldn't want him too. although Prometheus is undoubtably flawed I still love it and suspect I'll feel the same about Covenant.
Cameron on the other hand hasn't made a film I liked since T2 no matter how big the budget and that's a real disappointment to me. Feels such a waste.
I agree.
Steven Spielberg and Mel Gibson said THE SAME THINGS that Sir Ridley Scott. The 3 LEGENDS criticized these BLOATED Budgets.
I don't recall anyone saying these things but my guess is they didn't mean what you think they mean (Spielberg has worked on plenty of enormous budgeted films). The complaint can be that you get into this escalation war where your 400 million dollar movie has to be nearly doing a billion world wide to even break even and that no studio is willing to take on that risk for a non tent pole franchise movie.
And they aren't really wrong. Audiences, despite what people claim, AREN'T looking for new properties as these huge event movies. They keep flocking to established ones.
Alien Covenant has a very real possibility of losing a decent amount of money given the genre and very large budget for that particular genre. They're going to have to pull somewhere in the neighborhood of 450-500 million world wide to break even. Prometheus wasn't even close to that.
QuoteI was actually surprised to find out he made The Counselor for only $25 million. That's pocket change. Especially considering the cast he had on that.
I'm not that surprised. It was an incredibly small scope and was full of actors who are well known for taking small scale wages. The movie still lost money and, more importantly for that type of a movie, was a critical disaster.
QuoteRobin Hood had a $200 million production budget.
You are right. That might be why no one is willing to give him that budget again =/
I love Scott but his strengths are not in telling a well paced story to an audience.