Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: Re: No way this isn't going to be a steaming pile

[quote name="MM"][quote name="fabio"]Since writers are the most surefire indicator of movie quality, let's take a look at the credits... Oh god, FOUR writers. Credits include The Spiderman reboot, a horror movie about the toothfairy, The Rundown, White House Down (aka the dumb version of Olympus Has Fallen), and THE HAUNTING for fuck's sake, the writer of which hasn't done anything since Road to Perdition. The fourth writer has zero previous credits. Yeah there's no way this isn't going to be awful.[/quote] I remember in the director's commentary, when Paul Verhoven was first given the script he found the title to be a turnoff and after reading a few pages at home he threw the script on the floor and walked away. His wife later picked up the script, gave it a read, and said, "Paul, you should give this script another chance. It's much smarter than you think." Maybe this reboot is an act of cinematic meta-genius, creating the script Verhoven thought he was given in the first place![/quote]