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[zencat]

This was on Dark Horizons today (9/27). I find this very interesting. Just goes to show you how powerful the web can be and explains why studios (like our own MGM) are so incredibly nervous about their scripts getting into the hands of webmasters.


Superman Lives: Superman Cinema has posted up an item about internal reaction to the biggest news of the week: "Warner Bros. are absolutely furious at AICN's review of the script and is in complete panic mode. Heads are rolling and the entire studio is in turmoil. It seems they are scared to death they may have another BATMAN & ROBIN situation on their hands (they do) where negative buzz kills the film before it is even released. This time before it is even shot! The entire project is now in jeopardy and that they may have to throw out the entire script and start over. Someone who HATED the script and fought against it is the one who leaked it. But basically, there are a few people in the company who understand how bad the script is. Btw, the studio heads, many of them have never seen the Donner film and do not know ANYTHING about the origins of SUPERMAN, which explains why they loved the Luthor is an alien concept". Thanks to 'FanHalen'.

[Xenobia]

And yet....do we see WarnerBros. moving to shut this site down? No, because they are grateful for the fans input.

Take note MGM....we *love* the DAD script...and gave you plenty of good PR...and you shut us down. We have made our notes...next time, Bond 21 will sink before it starts to swim.

-- Xenobia

[Mourning Becomes Electra]

Jeez, and here was I hoping someone would shut down AICN. As for Warner Bros being "grateful", please, they shut down TONS of Harry Potter sites last year, sites run by children just for having a picture of HP up.

But has anyone seen the stuff that's in the Superman script? I can't imagine it would have got made anyway as it stands. Lex Luthor an alien, Jimmy gay, Superman being absorbed into his father's body...

[Roebuck]

I'm confused again (nothing unusual there).

Only yesterday Cinescape announced the Wolfgang Petersen BATMAN VS SUPERMAN project had been dropped in favour of a Superman movie directed by Brett Ratner.
J. J. Abrams (ALIAS) was being kept on as writer.

Are we certain this script AICN is talking about isn't the Kevin Smith draft Tim Burton threw out as unfilmable?

I have very little faith left in AICN as it's become something of a mouthpiece for industry guys with an axe to grind.

[Hardyboy]

I thought Batman vs. Superman sounded like a great project when Jude Law was supposed to play Supes; but once Warner Bros. said the part would go to that thick-eyebrowed puckerpuss Josh Hartnett my enthusiasm for the project cooled--so I can't say I'm sad to hear it's been dropped. But fansites being responsible? C'mon. . .I remember before Titanic was released the buzz on it was that it would be a colossal flop, and look what happened. I'm not sure a bunch of fans can really keep people from seeing a film they really want to see.

. . .Then again, xXx seems to have dropped off the radar. I don't suppose bad word of mouth on those nasty Bond websites could have had anything to do with this?

[freemo]

Take note MGM....we *love* the DAD script...and gave you plenty of good PR...and you shut us down. We have made our notes...next time, Bond 21 will sink before it starts to swim.

Then again, xXx seems to have dropped off the radar. I don't suppose bad word of mouth on those nasty Bond websites could have had anything to do with this?

No, I don't think so, I think we grossly overestimate how good we are, this place doesn't have that many visitors.

[Blue Eyes]

You know, I'm glad Warner Brothers are in a flap over this. Why? Because it will get the on to par with Superman.

I read the Superman review, and I was horrified as to what they'd done with it. Yes, you can make a new film. You can change some aspects (the Clark meeting Lois bit was clever, the judo bit was not) But you cannot change the whole nature of a character. It just should not be done.

You can't change the explosion on Krytpon (yes, delay it, but ultimately the planet must go BANG!), you can't change Lex Luthor, but WB must change that script.

I guess this who fiasco just shows the power of the net nowadays.

[JimmyBond]

Originally posted by Roebuck


Are we certain this script AICN is talking about isn't the Kevin Smith draft Tim Burton threw out as unfilmable?

100% certain. Kevin Smith is such a comic buff he would never write a script so unfaithful to the original comic (or movies) that the whole fan community would get this pissed off.

[Loomis]

Originally posted by freemo




No, I don't think so, I think we grossly overestimate how good we are, this place doesn't have that many visitors.

Agreed, Freemo. It would be nice (well, maybe) to think of the Bond bigwigs reading all our comments and saying "So that's where we've been going wrong", but I just can't picture it. Then again, it's hard to imagine that Internet buzz is entirely without influence, albeit on sites with a far greater number of visitors than this one, such as Ain't It Cool. But at the end of the day, Bond, Superman, Star Wars and the rest are - obviously - tailored for the consumption of as wide an audience as possible, with the hardcore fans' opinions coming a very long way down on the list of priorities.