The Ringer published a big piece today titled “Movies Aren’t Dead, but They’ll Never Be the Same” about the state of the movie industry, and one of the people they spoke to was Bret Easton Ellis. Ellis is best known as the author of the book “American Pyscho” (Christian Bale stared in the movie), and apparently he has some big Hollywood friends.
“I was having dinner with a couple of executives who know other executives who are working on the [forthcoming] Batman movie, The Batman,” Ellis told The Ringer.
“And they were just telling me that there are serious problems with the script. And that the executives I was having dinner with were complaining about people who work on the Batman movie. And they just said they went to the studio and they said, ‘Look, the script is … Here’s 30 things that are wrong with it that we can fix.’ And [the executives] said, ‘We don’t care. We don’t really care. The amount of money we’re going to make globally, I mean 70 percent of our audience is not going to be seeing this in English. And it doesn’t really matter, these things that you’re bringing up about the flaws of the script.’ So I do think global concerns play a big part in how movies, and what movies, are being made, obviously.”
from Batman News
So um not exactly surprising given:
Geoff Johns involvement
Previous DCEU outings
and I know some people will tell me and other skeptics to take it with a grain of salt and everything but here's the thing, this actually does tally with the other news about this movie, the only difference is that this source is straightforward and lays everything bare.
For example we DO know that Affleck isn't satisfied with the script, we do know that Affleck has refused to to commit to this film and yet we also know that Irons and Manganiello are preparing for a shoot sometime before summer 2017, how is it that the director is so coy and yet cast members are prepping for a shoot openly? it means that the studio is rushing the production and if they're rushing the production then it's obvious that they dont care if the script has issues, ergo it tallies perfectly.
Wouldn't at all be surprised if this film is similar to Hush/Knightfall and has glut of characters/villains which probably would explain the serious issues.
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