Movie News Jon M. Chu is Directing a Jem and the Holograms Film!
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what you think of this 80's fans?
I didn't expect this but I think it will be okay. Jon M. Chu's a good fit for this kind of property given his experience with LXD and the second and third Step-Up movies. It's not going to be high art, but at most it's going to be a flashy, colorful musical with good dance choreography that will please teenagers.
I just hope it increases interest in bringing more 80's properties to the big screen. He-Man, Voltron, and MASK can't come soon enough.
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Well, I'm hoping for an entertaining movie at least. I liked G.I. Joe Retaliation so perhaps a decent movie will come out of it.
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You can make a good movie out of anything.
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Guy, seriously? You hope that it will increase the interest of more 80's properties so we can get more mediocre films? This is part of the reason the film industry is going downhill.
None of them have been made yet, so it's not fair to deem them as already mediocre.
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This coming from someone that thinks Jem is beneath filmmakers who actually can make good movies.
Somebody like Jonze yes considering he's the type who prefers to work on stuff he wants to do not what you want him to work on.
Maybe Elizabeth Chandler to write the script or any of the directors of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movie could do it maybe but Jonze and Gondry are highly unlikely.
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He wouldn't Jem. He's very likely not interested in developing what's essentially a toyetic movie. And to answer your second question, contractually obligated.
And somebody like Ken Kwapis is more affordable in comparison to the other two. Dude, no offense; you live in a Fantasy world.
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They're not likely to do comic book movies either. Maybe they could if something catches their eye like I don't know, something by Ariel Schrag; they're more likely to do something by Ariel Schrag than something from DC or Marvel.
But why would that obligate themselves to something they initially do not want to do.
Most of the time, it'd be in agreement to fund and distribute the projects they want to. Michael Bay finally got to direct Pain & Gain after agreeing to direct Transformers: Age of Extinction and another example? Darren Lynn Bousman directed Saw IV just so Lionsgate will agree to Repo: The Genetic Opera.
Guy, seriously you need to be quiet. Because clearly you're just making this up as you go long. And have no idea how affordable Ken Kwapis really is.
He's no Spike Jonze, that's for sure. He could see something in the project if he's interested and he's somebody Hasbro would see that at least had a couple of profitable films in his resume so their thinking would be, "Okay, he could be something." Although he's not directing Jem, John Chu is. And he's somebody Hasbro trusts. But the same line of thinking applies to Elizabeth Chandler if she were hired to write the script. Hasbro would see that some of the films she wrote made a profit and some were well liked so they could see her a wise choice.
You my friend are the one making things as they go. Apparently if I were to guess in your fantasy, Joel Schumacher is history's greatest monster.
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Okay, but that's still a property. Also, it's hard to tell whether they'll be interesting on doing anything for DC or Marvel unless given the opportunity.
But her works are not mainstream properties, are they?
I'm not sure you know how this works. Directors don't agree to direct films just to direct a film they really want to work on. Bay could have finance Pain & Gain himself and really didn't need Paramount. But he couldn't pass up the easy money so Bay did want to Transformers 4 just for the wrong reasons.
No, I don't think you know how deals in Hollywood work. Nobody would take the dude seriously as a director who can be versatile so really directing Transformers: Age of Extinction was his only option. He's not *beep* James Cameron or Steven Spielberg dude. Hollywood is rarely a risk taker.
So Spike Jonze wouldn't be a wise choice but Ken Kwapis would be? What you're saying again makes no sense? What makes Kwapis more trustworthy than Jonze? Because his supposedly more affordable? Even if that is true how does that make him more trustworthy just because he would be cheaper.
To Hasbro, he is. And they would never think of Jonze or Gondry. Never. As in never.
No, because nothing you've said is remotely consistent. You're more likely to think Schumacher is great director since you're more likely to hire him for 80's property then someone with more talent.
Neither have you.
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It's still a property. And the idea that Spike Jonze or Michel Goundry will never do a mainstream property is just something you made up.
It's not made up. These dudes don't seem like people who'd want to go for a tentpole property.
No, you don't know how Hollywood works. Clearly, Transformers wasn't his only option since his been doing movies long since the Transformers. And the success of those films have open the door for him to do more movies.
Action movies. That's what Hollywood sees him as prior to Pain & Gain.
Please, don't pretend you know what Hasbro is thinking because you don't.
You don't either.
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Again that is just something you assumed by default.
Alright smart guy, which IP do you see David O. Russell going for?
So what? He still made a name for himself thus spark interest in the Hollywood industry.
But gets stuck directing action movies. Look at his resume and don't mention his producing credits, different case.
But I have common sense though. Hasbro gave Jem franchise to Jon M. Chu because that seems to be the pattern of properties of the 80's. If someone is willing to break the mold and treat 80's prop with same passion and seriousness as say something from Marvel or DC. Then maybe the likes of Jon M. Chu wouldn't be directing Jem in the first place.
You have common sense. You can't tell but I'm laughing my ass at that statement.
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Uh maybe another novel from Matthew Quick.
Oh, Matthew Quick. What's the matter, couldn't think of another toyline or comic book to think he'd be good for?
What makes you think his stuck? Maybe that is his preference.
Pain & Gain's his passion project, no one in Hollywood would be interested in a passion project that's so unlike his other work.
You're the one who keeps throwing illogic at me so don't tell me you think you have common sense. Because you clearly do not.
You just described yourself in a nutshell.
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So IP is limited to toylines or comic books? Also, your contradicting yourself because you claim that acclaimed directors wouldn't be interested in toyline properties but comic books. But now you're trying to claim that acclaimed director wouldn't be interested in neither? Guy, pick an argument and stick with it.
I'm talking about tentpole blockbuster projects in general. Matthew Quick's work is different from such. It depends on the director is what I'm trying to say. Shane Black directing Iron Man 3, action is his forte and he obviously had a set goal in mind for the film especially regarding the material twist. Spike Jonze, aside from my previous arguments, the studio wouldn't go for his style or pitch even if they had him in mind. Not to mention they'd believe he's too good for tentpole projects anyway.
So what it's unlike his other works that doesn't mean that no one in Hollywood would be interested. Again grasping at straws.
Hollywood is risk adverse. And quite frankly, I tire of your arguments. You want to obsess over this, go ahead. I don't want any part of it.
Please, look in the mirror.
Says the dude who doesn't read.
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If you believe so, then perhaps Martin Scorsese should have a shot at directing a Jem movie.
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And you think the director of GI Joe will inspire them to make a non-mediocre film?
No, I want there be interest in making those movies, even if the movie turns out bad I just hope it'll be popular and successful enough to get other studios attention and try to adapt them. I'd only be worried if they'd want to copy the same formula but I doubt they'd turn the entire Voltron crew into pop stars.
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