"A24 + The Rock = Possible Box Office redemption?"
Seeing news online that The Rock's next movie will be on A24. It'll be a movie about an early MMA fighter named Mark Kerr.
Pretty interesting for The Rock to decide to work with A24 on this flick. Has the success of Everything, Everywhere, All At Once taken A24 out of being an indie studio? Or did the flop of Black Adam cause The Rock to take a somewhat humble approach to want to work with an indie studio?
Have to admit I'm somewhat interested in this flick now since I'm assuming A24 will result in this film being of some kind of substance; am I wrong in this assumption?
"Sean sparks like John Starks, nah, Sean ball like John Wall" - Rest In Power Forever Sean Price.
1. "Only if he stops letting his ego dictate his creative choices" In response to Reply # 0 Tue May-21-24 10:49 AM by Cold Truth
Ever since we went public on social media with his beef with Vin, a fair amount has leaked about his behind the scenes behavior.
Yeah, we have no way of confirming a lot if it, but it’s been consistent.
Vin looks like the adult in the FF situation
I’d like a full oral history of Black Adam, because that’s arguably the worst example.
Apparently he was fucking up production on his joint with Ryan Reynolds and by showing up late, not adhering to COVID protocols.
When he came back to WWE, he thought he could literally just show up and take a spot that’s been consistently building on a weekly basis for two years, using a small handful of seeds that had been planted as his reasoning.
But he didn’t take a creative approach to it. He literally just showed up and had Cody give it to him. It was so poorly done that it created a massive fan backlash against him, which was unthinkable until it happened.
They wisely pivoted and made magic with it in the end, but the fact that he half assed it at the start illustrates just how much he thought his mere presence was sufficient.
Once he stopped mailing it in with lazy renditions of his greatest hits and put some effort into things, he garnered genuine reactions that weren’t just playing into nostalgia.
So it depends on if he chooses to actually work, or if he still thinks his mere presence is enough.
-Sig-
“Why didn’t you do this in your own god damn country?"
-All Stah's view on undocumented immigrants wanting to be treated like human beings.
2. "This philosophy seems to have stunted his growth as well" In response to Reply # 1
From a 2018 article....
In a new Rolling Stone interview, Johnson explained that he doesn't care to indulge the self-serious side of acting. Instead, he just wants to make the audience feel good.
"No one's going to see me play a borderline psychopath suffering from depression," he said. "I have friends I admire, Oscar winners, who approach our craft with the idea of 'Sometimes it comes out a little darker, and nobody will see it, but it's for me.' Great. But I have other things I can do for me. I'm gonna take care of you, the audience. You pay your hard-earned money — I don't need to bring my dark shit to you. Maybe a little — but if it's in there, we're gonna overcome it, and we're gonna overcome it together."'
Hell yeah.
Johnson went on to explain that he nearly quit his new videogame adaptation Rampage when he saw that a main character died in an early script. "I don't like a sad ending," he said. "Life brings that shit — I don't want it in my movies. When the credits roll, I want to feel great."