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No, it was the studio. They had final cut, and chose to exclude the director and her co-writer from the final stage of editing. The final score - by coincidence, by Carter Burwell - was composed without her input. Lisa Cholodenko was still allowed to do press for the movie and to play the awards circuit.
Point is, these things happen a lot in the movie industry, and most of the time the public at large is unaware of it. I kind of feel that that's how it should be... the behind the scenes drama is interesting to read about after the fact, but if it starts to warp one's opinion of a movie before you see it, then I think it really sabotages the experience.
True, too much reported behind the scenes drama makes me watch the movie in a different way.
Still, I find it very odd if studios hire a particular director and then keep him out of the editing room. Directing is just as much about editing and arriving at the final version.
A studio should choose a director who will be on the same wavelength. To hire someone else, watching the dailies and then kick him out, putting everything together by committee, cannot result in a very good film since the material itself has the director´s sensibility.
Of course, this is common practice these days on big budgeted blockbusters.
But THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT was a small budget independent film, wasn´t it? If even these films do not reflect the director´s vision anymore, something is truly rotten at the core.
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A studio should choose a director who will be on the same wavelength. To hire someone else, watching the dailies and then kick him out, putting everything together by committee, cannot result in a very good film since the material itself has the director´s sensibility.
It could be they were on the same wavelength until, say, test audiences reacted poorly, or the suits started seeing the film which wasn't how they pictured it, or any of a number of other things that can result in changing wavelengths. (And remember, Taylor isn't the first director attached to this project either; originally it was Patty Jenkins, and rumor has it that Portman was upset when she left the project and was less interested in being involved after that, so there was already some tension regarding that. So who knows what's happened or why?)
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Good point on JAWS. Also TITANIC was being written off as a huge bomb before it became....THE BIGGEST FILM EVER!!
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Doyle is probably busy. He's probably starting work on "Jack Ryan", probably fresh off if not just finishing the video game "Puppeteer: Hero Heads", and probably just about the time the film opens, he'll need to start writing "Cinderella" in order to make the March, 2014 release date.
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Cool -- so he's got time. But I have a feeling after going through one score, the studio will be pushing a composer of their own, and it's not the same director from the last film.
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FilmMusicReporter.com is reporting Brian Tyler has signed on as the new composer.
Doesn't this man ever say "No" to anything?
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