FTF Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Bombs away...and I agree this is the Smith clan's fault...M.Night's name is no where to be found in any trailers, TV spots or marketing, and he was told to direct a cookie cutter sci-fi movie and let Will and son handle selling the movie and he did. The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable, and Village M.Night is dead and he's a shit director now, but this bomb ain't on him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sims Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Most hilarious weekend in a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Who would've thought Will Smith in a sci-fi movie with his son would only be less appealing than Will Smith in Seven Pounds? I imagine Big Willy is going to stick to sequels for the rest of his career. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 :lol: @ all the Happening apologists here. Can't help it man. It's the most fun movie to sit and laugh at w/ buddies since Batman & Robin. I love it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Marston Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Who would've thought Will Smith in a sci-fi movie with his son would only be less appealing than Will Smith in Seven Pounds? I imagine Big Willy is going to stick to sequels for the rest of his career. he should take risks like Tom Cruise. It worked out for Tom Cruise why is Will Smith afraid to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockNrollaDIM Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Wait so is it now officially acceptable to hate Jaden Smith? If you're a twat when you're 12 you'll be a twat at 16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Whitta was the main writer.The original screenplay was written by Gary Whitta based on an idea by Will Smith. In pre-production, director M. Night Shyamalan did a few drafts of the screenplay to familiarize himself with the material, before passing it over to Stephen Gaghan, who stayed on as the chief screenwriter during production. Mark Boal, writer of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, also worked on the script.The original idea for the film was about a father and son on a camping trip. The son would've had to make his way through the forest to find help for the father after the car they were traveling in careened off the road. Realizing that the idea had greater potential, producer Will Smith and screenwriter Gary Whitta decided to adapt the basic survival concept into a much larger science-fiction project.Also from IMDB That original idea has a great indie film centered around a rising star buried in it somewhere. Make it all naturalist and minimalist and tight/lean in length/dialogue/etc and you're set. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sims Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 LOL I just remembered that this was the project that Will turned down Django for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Gary Scott Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 he should take risks like Tom Cruise. It worked out for Tom Cruise why is Will Smith afraid to.This. I love this summer a worse bomb every week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 You Trek fans better hope Nikki is dead wrong about her weekend projection. That would be a horrible hold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 (edited) You Trek fans better hope Nikki is dead wrong about her weekend projection. That would be a horrible hold. Nikki hasn't even given us an actual Friday number guess for anything so it's just the Box Wine talking Edited May 31, 2013 by 4815162342 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Gary Scott Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 You Trek fans better hope Nikki is dead wrong about her weekend projection. That would be a horrible hold.I don't trust nikki 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Futurist Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Hey, Michael, what do you do after Transformers 4 cuz I have an idea, we have to be sure that " shit just got real" if you know what I mean ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sims Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 I'm actually going to be really upset if these numbers are wrong and Afterbirth somehow pulls off a 30M+ weekend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incarnadine Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Wait so is it now officially acceptable to hate Jaden Smith? If you're a twat when you're 12 you'll be a twat at 16. Hey, I'm on record as hating him long before other people joined in. He's a big reason I wanted AE to fail hard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 I don't trust nikki 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Futurist Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 The numbers we are all discussing on Friday are like discussing the necromancer's readings of the future from rats' guts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Well LADY IN THE WATER only made 72.8 M worldwide. LITW was written while MNS had just dropped shrooms, not slept for 72 hours, had no food, water and very little air and then he did 27 lines of Coke. The first draft was then written for that movie. He stayed with that draft and filmed it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockNrollaDIM Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Can't help it man. It's the most fun movie to sit and laugh at w/ buddies since Batman & Robin. I love it.It's ok. The lawnmower scene is pretty epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 LITW was written while MNS had just dropped shrooms, not slept for 72 hours, had no food, water and very little air and then he did 27 lines of Coke. The first draft was then written for that movie. He stayed with that draft and filmed it. ... ignoring Nina Jacobson's advice to rewrite. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
