![]() ![]() He always takes his time and thinks about it.We heard a rumor that one scene from The Umbrella Academy almost didn't make it into season three. ![]() “I wouldn’t be surprised if he wanted to do something that was more performance-driven, the way The King’s Speech or The Danish Girl were,” said the source close to the filmmaker. Those inside Hooper’s circle say he will effectively try to play the hits, doing again what he has done well before, to remove the bad memory Cats has left behind. “He can get hired, but is he going to come in the door with a passion project? I doubt it,” the source added. Hooper may also have to get used to compromising, overseeing films on which he has less creative control. One source close to Cats said Hooper’s biggest punishment may be losing access to top-tier projects: “It’ll be more or less, ‘Let’s find somebody else. But when you’re in a grown-up drama and trying to be earnest, and doing something different-as they were here, trying for an Oscar-and it just seems so ill-conceived, it makes everyone say, ‘What were they thinking?’ It’s just embarrassing.” “Action movies are supposed to be silly and over the top. “If you fail at an action film, it’s like, who really cares?” Rushfield said. Officially, both left their Star Wars projects over creative differences.įive years later, Trank is working on the Al Capone story Fonzo with Tom Hardy, and Trevorrow is returning to the land of dinosaurs with 2021’s Jurassic World 3. Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow was set to take the helm of Episode IX (known as The Rise of Skywalker) before his 2017 offbeat indie dramedy, The Book of Henry, opened to flabbergasted reviews. Josh Trank, who denounced 2015’s Fantastic Four amid a public dispute with 20th Century Fox, was dropped months earlier from a planned Boba Fett movie by Lucasfilm. Some recent headline-grabbing cases of "director jail" include two filmmakers who lost Star Wars films due to poor production and reception of other movies. "It's like they set us up to fail," director Darnell Martin told The New York Times last year. Both came back strong, particularly last year with Leder's Ruth Bader Ginsburg drama On the Basis of Sex and Kusama's Nicole Kidman thriller Destroyer.ĭirectors such as Julie Dash and Ernest Dickerson have joined with fellow African-American filmmakers to speak out about how "directors' jail" was no joke to them, with industry skepticism and intolerance derailing promising early starts. Deep Impact's Mimi Leder and Girlfight's Karyn Kusama endured long dry spells in their careers after perceived disappointments that seemed discriminatory. In the 1990s and 2000s, diverse filmmakers who were finally making their breakthroughs also found themselves with few margin for error. The "director jail" phenomenon is also known to disproportionally punish women and people of color. Cimino, who died in 2016, made sporadic small films over the next few decades but never returned to prominence. His imprisonment came amid epic budget and scheduling conflicts over the 1980 Western Heaven’s Gate, which tanked at the box office and led the parent company of United Artists to sell off the studio to MGM. The source was referring to the most notorious case of director’s jail, when the filmmaker behind The Deer Hunter, the Oscar-winning 1978 Vietnam film, was effectively banished from the business. And that was because he shut a studio down,” said one source close to the Cats production. “I have yet to find somebody in this town who has delivered a best picture and big box office who doesn’t get rehired-other than Michael Cimino. “He has enough of a past record that he could have that rather than lifetime imprisonment.” “If he can make a little $20 million movie and attract a few big stars to it who will say, ‘There’s still a chance I could win an Oscar here'-if he promises there won’t be any songs or special effects-he could get one shot,” Rushfield said. Hooper’s 2015 drama, The Danish Girl, scored a best-actor nomination for Eddie Redmayne, while Alicia Vikander took home a statuette for supporting actress. Hooper’s previous musical, 2012’s Les Misérables, was nominated for best picture and best actor ( Hugh Jackman), and won best supporting actress for Anne Hathaway. The King’s Speech also earned a best-actor Oscar for Colin Firth. “I don’t think anybody is going to be putting a $100 million budget in front of him now, but he’s still the director of The King’s Speech,” said veteran journalist Richard Rushfield, impresario of the Hollywood newsletter the Ankler and author of the definitive article “The Rules of Director Jail.” It helps when it’s a first offense, and the accused has a history of good behavior-like Hooper’s best-director Oscar for 2010’s The King’s Speech, which also won best picture.
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