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Post by cleburne on Jul 28, 2009 12:24:22 GMT -5
You mean Michael Mann? Really? Wow, if he had been at the helm, I would've been tempted to go see the movie. Mann is one of my favorite filmmakers. I agree, he could've done something interesting with the material. He wanted to direct the 1st HP film but she turned him down so when Jk Rowling asked him to do this movie he said no way Jose. He is a good director I must say especially " Collateral" which was one of his best. ;D
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Post by ram on Aug 11, 2009 11:50:08 GMT -5
Well, all I can say is, if I had a novel and then found out Michael Mann wanted to make a movie out of it, I'd say HELL YES! I can understand completely if he felt resentment at being turned away by Rowling for the first film. I mean, it's not as if it was some hack in the industry wanting to make the movie.
But that's exactly the case now, isn't it? The HP movies are the products of hack filmmakers with little artistic vision, they're just films-by-committee.
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