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Studios will try anything new--like putting an indie-minded director on a big project--as long as it has been done before. Sony Pictures hit it big pairing Spider-Man with Sam Raimi and then hit the fan when it mated The Hulk with Ang Lee. Now Christopher Nolan, best known for his twisty art thriller Memento, gets a shot with Batman Begins. He says all he borrowed from the franchise was Batman himself, and even this Batman will be a mystery to fans. "I saw a small gap in pop-culture movie history," Nolan says, "the film where...
...recent cinema history: use the vision of independent artists on big studios’ big-budget bonanzas. It is the career path followed by such well-known directors as Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to The Hulk), Brian Singer (The Usual Suspects to X-Men) and Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead to Spider Man 2), and one that often leads, interestingly enough, to comic book adaptations...
...producer, and Walter Salles (Central Station) is the director. And Ju-on, Japan's top fright franchise (with four episodes) since The Ring, gets its Hollywood remake in October, with the original films' auteur, Takashi Shimizu, calling the shots and Sarah Michelle Gellar starring for producer Sam (Spider-Man) Raimi...
...this any way to manage a franchise film? You bet it is. Written primarily by Alvin Sargent (who the credits indicate had a lot of help) and directed by Sam Raimi with his heart on his sleeve and his tongue in his cheek, Spider-Man 2 is 1) a sequel that's much better than the original movie and 2) probably the best special-effects extravaganza since Raiders of the Lost Ark. This is because the effects, though handsomely managed, don't overwhelm the story and characters...
Nolan is part of a brave new Hollywood experiment: handing artistically minded directors big budgets and big stars. Gambling on Sam Raimi's character-driven approach to Spider-Man produced a spectacular hit; stage director Sam Mendes scored big with American Beauty and leads Tom Hanks and Paul Newman down the Road to Perdition in July. The formula has risks as well: Doug Liman (Swingers) had a tempestuous tenure as director of The Bourne Identity, the Matt Damon spy thriller...