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...theater of cruelty, and of the style of director Jess R. Burkle ’06, whose spring production, “Knock,” was lauded for its dark comedy. However, I wasn’t prepared for the abject violence of this new script, nor the calculation with which Burkle’s cast and crew approached it. It never lifted my spirits, but its intelligence and precision were overwhelming...
...According to an adoring new book, Michael Bamberger's The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale (Gotham Books), the Mouse House offered him $60 million to make the film, but the director felt the studio didn't give the script enough love. (His assistant flew to Los Angeles to deliver the script to Disney execs on a Sunday at their homes, and when one of the executives wasn't home at the appointed time--she had taken her son to a birthday party--Shyamalan felt dismissed...
...worked on an early script for Superman several years ago. What do you think of the new film? I'm just glad there's any Superman movie. My version had a lot more parameters: the producer wanted to never show him in the suit, never show him flying and have him fight a giant spider in the third...
...fact, I was once offered a really cool script, and I thought this would be fun, I could just go and direct. It?d save myself eight months of torture and maybe not identify with it so much that I?d live and die with every single thing...
...earnest manner, he's generally been a very welcome presence in the movies. He was especially good as Jackie Chan's co-star in Shanghai Noon and Knights , and he was excellent in The Wedding Crashers last year, where he energetically overcame his basic inertia, in part because the script was well developed nonsense and his constantly scheming co-star, Vince Vaughn, wouldn't let him lie down for long...