AvatarKatar wrote:
Hasdi wrote:
Why Paramount didn't move forward with the sequels/reboots as soon as Judy McGrath is out of the way, especially if the market is there?
Why not, Mr Hasdi?
Because Paramount already wrote-off the sequels, the year before the movie was due for release.
Brad Grey had Adam Goodman take over the production of a movie that somebody else picked[2][3] (who had stepped down before the production even started)[4] and thrust into Paramount-Nickelodeon feud that he had nothing to do with. He didn't ask for this racebending shit but wants Paramount to be "part of the solution", so he did what any rational white man would do in his position.[5]
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"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a property that maintains a very passionate global fan base, is rich with opportunity for a tentpole movie, and is exactly the right property for us to work together with Nickelodeon"
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— Adam Goodman on acquiring TMNT franchise for $60 million on October 21, 2009
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"But Mummy, Viacom was losing money back then[6] so how did Mr. Goodman find $60 million to buy them turtles?" Well children, remember when Mr. Marshall confirmed that the movie trilogy had a budget of $250 million?[7] Two months later, Mr. Goodman took over and changed the budget to $150 million for just one movie but with some extras like post-3D conversion, more Asians, and new not-so-finished visual effects. That leaves him $60 million to buy the TMNT franchise, with $40 million to spare for other Nick movies and shit. http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd378/ketekbau/Emoticon/kedip.gif
Adam Goldman's "solution" is to replace ATLA/Korra with TMNT as the franchise of choice for Paramount to collaborate with Nickelodeon. Why adapt a source material that feature Asian characters when you can adapt a more "established" material that allows you to cast as many white actors as you like? Did Paramount learn the "errors" of their racebending ways? Well, since the backlash was also for casting villains with PoC actors, there shouldn't be any problem in whitewashing the villains in Star Trek 2[8] and TMNT[9], right? -__- Sadly, by the time Paramount reworked the movie with a Japanese Shredder,[10] the brand awareness of Korra has been so badly diminished by their "containment strategy".
TLA sequels were never officially cancelled as the cast and crew were still contracted to return should Paramount find the money to do it, which they could never raise anyway. The TMNT press release indicated both TMNT series and TMNT movie were planned for 2012. The only way Paramount can afford to slate TMNT movie for 2012 is by diverting the revenue of TLA movie in 2010 to produce TMNT movie in 2011 (instead of TLA sequels). When the revenue exceeded Paramount's expectations, they use the extra cash as seed money for Paramount Animation.
- Rico Gagliano: For those who don’t know, “The Last Airbender” was kind of a martial arts, fantasy movie you did right after “Slumdog Millionaire,” which actually did very well at the box office, but was pilloried by critics.
- Dev Patel: Exactly.
Paramount should have made the cancellation official but they couldn't cite the box office performance as the reason (like Newline could with the Golden Compass[11]) without making them look like fools on Wall Street. The general public is more gullible so they use Mike and Bryan to make their case for them[12] and let the haters to perpetuate the myth of "box office failure". When they have exhausted all their contractual options for the sequels, they used the Asian lead to break the news and to apologize for the movie instead of them.
"I just remember being totally overwhelmed by the whole experience. ... It’s hard promoting a film you didn’t enjoy and don’t fully believe in, and I felt bad. I felt sorry that I’d let these fans down, because I was a big fan of the cartoon it was based on growing up. ... Someone’s going to reboot it and do it right, for sure. But I was at the stage in my career where you don’t have any say. And on paper, it looked great."
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— Dev Patel on The Last Airbender movie in the Guardian interview
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A few days after that interview, Brad Grey fired Adam Goodman
[13] for reasons that also include budget overruns, thin film slate and, of course, obvious favoritism of the TMNT franchise.
[14][15] >_> Marc Evans took over
[16] and was tasked to double the film slate,
[17] which may include this "reboot" that Dev mentioned. Although, it is possible that the development has transferred to another studio.
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Kubernes wrote:
That's going awfully far with the emphasis on the hatred/boycott side of the comic rather the interviews as a whole.
There's not much wiggle room in those interviews: Gene Yang admitted that Samantha Robertson hired him[19] in part because of his anti-movie webcomic[20] after her conversations with Mike and Bryan[21]. Don't worry about them. If there was any wrongdoing, Viacom had McGrath take the fall instead of them and Stephen Colbert.
Neo Bahamut wrote:
I'll ask you why you keep bitching about Bryan's "attack on M. Night" if his opinion is so "irrelevant"? Or, you know, how you complain when ANYONE dislikes the movie, bitching about how they're "ruining the franchise."
Bashing the movie is actually "good" for the franchise but only when McGrath was in charge. After she was retired, the equation changed. As long Bryan stay within the "guidelines", it doesn't hurt Paramount (that much) to bash a movie that they were not keen to make sequels of anyway. OTOH, it makes it difficult for Nickelodeon to market Korra to the movie fans... unless one of them is willing to argue it is Ok to support a show made by the same people who disappointed them.
But you are right. It IS true that M.Night is the second coming of our Lord and Savior. Let us pray...