20000 Leagues Under The Sea | Fox | Bryan Singer confirmed to direct. Production begins in fall. Not the Disney-Fincher version

[Blankments]

Why isn't this in On the Lot?

[WrathOfHan]

7 hours ago, Blankments said:

Why isn't this in On the Lot?

Production begins this fall.

[Goffe]

10 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

millions spent where he had them plant fucking 500 acres of corn.  Thrifty he wasn't.

 

 

 

Millions?

[Plain Old Tele]

On February 5, 2016 at 3:09 AM, misafeco said:

I'll check that out. I've read nearly all of Verne's books and i'm a big fan of him. I'd kill for a big budget Captain Grant's Children (In Search of the Castaways) or Mysterious Island movie.

 

 

 

 

[DAR]

It'll be hard to top the Disney version especially James Mason's performance

[TalismanRing]

2 hours ago, Goffe said:

Millions?

 

Well, it wasn't cheap.

 

He built a four mile road, then planted 500 acres of corn in an area that wasn't amenable to corn and didn't have enough rainfall or water to grow it.  It took 4 months of careful tending until the corn stalks grew to the exact height he wanted for the sequence.  Then he cut about 2/3rds of the planned sequence.

 

All in all the movie went about $20m over the approved budget (not including previous $40m in costs and factoring in the tax breaks)

 

http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2006/SPRMN.php

 

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In Newsweek's July 3-10, 2006 issue, Singer says, "The approved budget was $184.5 million. We had projected overages for visual effects, and there was a sequence that I wanted that was going to cost an extra $2.3 million. So the hard, honest number is $204 million." We are taking this as the official final budget. Factoring in the tax break puts the cost at $232 million, and adding the $40 million in previous costs to the studio means that the total expense on the project was in the neighborhood of $270 million.

 

 

[eddyxx]

Thanks for posting that. I knew the film went over budget but couldn't remember the exact details. That's multiple films where Singer shit the bed and add filming on water, I'm sure, and you have a recipe for a financial flop.

[zackzack]

Dueling projects..here we go again

[SWXII]

Best that Disney passes on this now. Besides they have more important franchises to nurture. IMO.

[Goffe]

Yes, he went 20m overbudget, but is that a big deal for a 185 million movie?

 

Now, something going from 60m to almost 140m, like The Revenant did, that's real 'overbudgeting'.