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Fukunaga hat nun erklärt, wieso er abgesprungen ist. Wie er sagt, hatte er einen ungemütlichen, sich langsam entwickelnden Horrorfilm mit unkonventionellen Ideen im Sinn. Die ständigen Einwände und Änderungswünsche des Studios haben seiner Meinung nach einen eher typischen Film vor Augen, so wie sich jeder Normalo einen Es Film vorstellen würde. Da konnte man sich nicht einigen. Er behauptet, Stephen King hätte eine frühe Fassung seines Drehbuchs gemocht.
Mutig von ihm, das Ding trotzdem zu verlassen.
“I was trying to make an unconventional horror film,” Fukunaga states. “
It didn’t fit into the algorithm of what they knew they could spend and make money back on based on not offending their standard genre audience. Our budget was perfectly fine. We were always hovering at the $32 million mark, which was their budget. It was the creative that we were really battling. It was two movies. They didn’t care about that. In the first movie, what I was trying to do was an elevated horror film with actual characters.
They didn’t want any characters. They wanted archetypes and scares. I wrote the script. They wanted me to make a much more inoffensive, conventional script. But I don’t think you can do proper Stephen King and make it inoffensive.”
“The main difference was making Pennywise more than just the clown,” said Fukunaga. “After 30 years of villains that could read the emotional minds of characters and scare them, trying to find really sadistic and intelligent ways he scares children, and also the children had real lives prior to being scared. And all that character work takes time.
It’s a slow build, but it’s worth it, especially by the second film. But definitely even in the first film, it pays off. It was being rejected. Every little thing was being rejected and asked for changes. Our conversations weren’t dramatic. It was just quietly acrimonious. We didn’t want to make the same movie. We’d already spent millions on pre-production.
I certainly did not want to make a movie where I was being micro-managed all the way through production, so I couldn’t be free to actually make something good for them. I never desire to screw something up. I desire to make something as good as possible.”
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http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...aga-blames-studio-tampering-for-his-departure