Open Letter by an Alleged Former Warner Bros. Employee Rages at Top Executives - Polidicks

[quote]The ex-WB staffer gives only the name “Gracie Law” — Kim Cattrall’s character in the movie Big Trouble in Little China — but she sure throws a lot of shade at studio chairperson and CEO Kevin Tsujihara, as well as the “mastermind” of DC’s film slate, Zack Snyder. “You just don't get it. And it's not just DC movies, it's your whole slate,” writes Law. “Jupiter Ascending. Get Hard. Hot Pursuit. Max. Vacation. Pan. Point Break. Fucking PAN, you jerk. People lost their jobs and you decided Pan was a good idea. You think another Jungle Book is a good idea. What are you even doing? I wish to God you were forced to live out of a car until you made a #1 movie of the year.”[/quote] (...) [b]An Open Letter To Warner Bros CEO Kevin Tsujihara About Layoffs, Zack Snyder, and Donuts[/b] [quote]Zack Snyder is not delivering. Is he being punished? Assistants who were doing fantastic work certainly were. People in finance and in marketing and in IT. They had no say in a movie called Batman V Superman only having 8 minutes of Batman fighting Superman in it, that ends because their moms have the same name. Snyder is a producer on every DC movie. He is still directing Justice League. He is being rewarded with more opportunity to get more people laid off. I'm assuming you yourself haven't been financially affected in any real way. You and your studio are the biggest lesson about life one can learn: The top screws up and the bottom suffers. Peter Jackson phones it in and a marketing supervisor has to figure out a plan B for house payments.[/quote] (...) [quote]One could argue that this was not your fault. That you inherited former CEO Barry Meyer's agenda and were merely trying to correct the course of an ocean liner heading for an iceberg. I would not make this argument. And here's why: I wrote this letter last year. I actually started forming it in my head after Man of Steel was a box office failure instead of the modern classic tentpole you were expecting. I kept holding off on doing anything with it because of one title: Suicide Squad. Zack Snyder's Dawn of Justice was a fiasco, but here comes this plucky little dark adventure about antiheroes. I love David Ayer. I love Harley Quinn. I love Will Smith. Put the letter in a drawer. The ship isn't sinking anymore. Everything is fine. There's no way this movie is bad.[/quote] source: [url]http://www.vulture.com/2016/08/this-open-letter-annihilates-warner-bros-execs.html[/url] additional source: [url]http://www.thewrap.com/read-the-blistering-open-letter-to-warner-bros-and-ceo-kevin-tsujihara/[/url] additional source: [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ex-warner-bros-staffer-open-letter_us_57add318e4b007c36e4e3722[/url]

Will more people now be finally convinced that Zack Snyder needs to leave?

DC movies are actually embarassing to witness like how are they not stopping this idiot

[QUOTE=J!NX;50882862]DC movies are actually embarassing to witness like how are they not stopping this idiot[/QUOTE] because while hes making the worst superhero movies right now, he actually made one of the best too. Watchmen. that good will is running out fuckin quick.

I wonder what job she had. It reads more like a letter from an angry fan than it does a letter from someone with a high profile job. No real insider info on actual behind closed doors goings on other than the memo and people around her being fired.

[QUOTE=Wii60;50882872]because while hes making the worst superhero movies right now, he actually made one of the best too. Watchmen. that good will is running out fuckin quick.[/QUOTE] Watchmen Director's Cut was Passable, but I still intent to see the Ultimate Edition at some point. Snyder almost botched it with his obsession of pornographic violence and hit-and-miss casting. You're absolutely correct about good will since the Watchmen movie was nearly 7 years ago.

[QUOTE=The Castro;50882888]Watchmen Director's Cut was Passable, but I still intent to see the Ultimate Edition at some point. Snyder almost botched it with his obsession of pornographic violence and hit-and-miss casting. You're absolutely correct about good will since the Watchmen movie was nearly 7 years ago.[/QUOTE] Honestly, that fact makes it look more like Watchmen was a fluke rather than an example of skill. Snyder got lucky, and now he can't follow up. Flush him down the toilet.

[QUOTE=Disgruntled;50882896]Honestly, that fact makes it look more like Watchmen was a fluke rather than an example of skill. Snyder got lucky, and now he can't follow up. Flush him down the toilet.[/QUOTE] even if it was because he'd a good director it's pretty clear that the watchmen format (dark/gritty) doesn't work for DC, a universe with an endless amount of silly nonsense in it

[QUOTE=J!NX;50882901]even if it was because he'd a good director it's pretty clear that the watchmen format (dark/gritty) doesn't work for DC, a universe with an endless amount of silly nonsense in it[/QUOTE] Are you kidding? There are armloads of wonderful, gritty, grim, frankly disturbing prints of DC comics out there. In fact, that's what makes DC a legacy comic. In a world where there's a genuine villain called [I]the Hoopster,[/I] who rides around in [I]a modifiable omni-hoopcar of doom,[/I] people still die, money is stolen, and Batman has to figure out how to stop them while Superman has to grapple with the great responsibility of his powers. The key to it all is that the -hero- takes the ridiculous villain seriously, because the villain is genuinely deranged, which they [I]almost[/I] got with the Joker in Suicide Squad. So, very, almost. The problem is that the [I]movie studio[/I] cannot help but pull the punch every time I goes to the mat. "[I]Could we, perhaps, kill Robin on screen?[/I]" asks on beleaguered junior writer. "[I]Maybe we could work that storyline where Lois Lane dies in 9/11?[/I]" says one that's still thumbing his copy of [I]The Punisher,[/I] hidden inside a copy of the Flash. "[I]I know,[/I]" says one. "[I]Let's just go pilfer storylines from the animate show. Some of those pulled pretty good views, like the one where Batman is sent in to a dreamland to kill a psychic teenager.[/I]" "[I]No.[/I]" says the Executive. "[I]I just heard about the action-comedy Deadpool and the pop musical Guardians of the Galaxy. They printed money. We're doing that with this big Suicide Squad thing. Make it happy, keep it cheery, and for the love of god don't do anything that could possibly upset anyone in any way, or for that matter, elicit human emotion at all.[/I]"

[QUOTE=Crazy Ivan;50883022]Are you kidding? There are armloads of wonderful, gritty, grim, frankly disturbing prints of DC comics out there. In fact, that's what makes DC a legacy comic. In a world where there's a genuine villain called [I]the Hoopster,[/I] who rides around in [I]a modifiable omni-hoopcar of doom,[/I] people still die, money is stolen, and Batman has to figure out how to stop them while Superman has to grapple with the great responsibility of his powers.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;5oltd-Jsi2I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oltd-Jsi2I[/video] The issue I have with it is, even when you count all the dark shit, lets look at this objectively, DC has an insane amount of very silly shit in it which makes it very hard to believe, The flash is a one line spitting speed runner with the ability to travel time, [URL="http://static2.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_super/11128/111286280/5196271-the+flash+speed.jpg"]as well as see events that last for less than an attosecond[/URL]. Superman is a man who can do anything whose flaw commonly is written in as 'being too strong', Batman runs around with little boys fighting a clown and a giant penguin using boomerangs, there is a small boy that can be turned into a grown man with a single shout, and wonderwomans main weakness is having her wrists tied by a man. this isn't to say marvel isn't filled with insanely silly shit, but Justice league is never going to work as 'strictly gritty', nor will super man. Do any of the characters face actual real life issues? Or is it all made up fantastical violence? How often to they kill a super hero off and not change it 5 seconds later? The biggest issue with DC doing gritty is that superman doesn't work at all as 'dark and terrifying'. That isn't to say you can't have a dark superman film, but you can't try and turn it into a batman film even if you don't pull your punches and do what it takes to make it heavy enough to make it serious. It's insanely hard to not laugh at the idea of what a gritty aquaman movie would be like. You have to have it be at least slightly campy and aware of how absurd the premise is of a king living in the sea with a magical spear who commands a giant army of sea people. Then there is the green lantern... the flash... cyborg... the characters themselves just don't work that well in a dark environment on premise of their characters being very outlandish and uncanny, you have to work with what you have. if you are going to make a dark DC movie however, you should at least do the flash point paradox where [sp]Bruce Wayne was killed instead and his dad runs around shooting criminals in the fucking face as batman[/sp] [editline]14th August 2016[/editline] hell, if you want a really cool example, try the mask on for size [video=youtube;1-GPyK3iEZ4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-GPyK3iEZ4[/video] it plays its really terrible and shitty world with uncanny and wacky drawn all over its face [editline]14th August 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Crazy Ivan;50883022] The problem is that the [I]movie studio[/I] cannot help but pull the punch every time I goes to the mat. [/QUOTE] tbh I think DC could easily keep the dark shit if they did what marvel did but also had bad things happen, which is something marvel doesn't really do Play superman like he should be, do it like the 90's cartoon, but have a lot of really bad things happen to him and have him eventually go from a nice guy to a complete power whore for just a moment The movie studio should needs to stop pulling punches

i think the same should be said about sony pictures as well, ghostbusters was a wreck from the beginning and now theyve got several more 'remakes' in the works and you cant complain about how bad they are because youre somehow sexist for suggesting you cant reboot a movie with all women roles