A drama costs 100m budget?
How is it possible?
sharePretty big ensemble cast, location shooting, and Nolan's emphasis on practical effects probably added to the budget.
shareThe question become: how dumb a studio can be to agree spend 100m on a drama?
shareWell, they're probably banking on the name recognition and that Christopher Nolan is directing it. He's only had one major box office flop in his career.
sharePeople are hungry for decent movies after decades of CGI shit. Success of Joker (2019) proved that.
shareJoker isn't a drama, it's a superhero movie. And superhero movies have good track record on boxoffice.
shareWhere/who was the superhero in Joker? I think Joker was a character driven drama, but that besides the point. It wasn't fast paced CGI shit.
shareYou don't need CGI to be a superhero(or supervillain) movie. CGI is not a definition to superhero movies.
And the movie for Joker to plagiarize The King of The Comedy is a better movie than boring Joker, yet it bombed. Do you know why? Because it's a character driven drama without a superhero.
Hah, comparing to a movie made in the 80's. It was a different era, no CGI crap fests dominating theaters then. Reasons why The King of Comedy wasn't a success are therefore different also. I have nothing else to say about this matter, so I think I'll just stop here. Oh, you should check movies like Gone with the Wind or Titanic if you want to see succesful historical dramas.
shareDo you want people to believe if we change the title Joker to The King of Comedy, it will be the same success?
It's not hard to change the title, just need few dialogues change too, like: Wayne, Gotham, Joker.
Dumb enough to gross $622 million (and climbing ) on a $100 million budget.