What If Chris Gore Ran A Movie Studio?
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- Chris Gore is a writer, comedian, author and television personality who has built a solid reputation as a hilariously outspoken voice in the entertainment world. As a teenager, Chris founded the brutally honest magazine Film Threat, which began as a fanzine while he was a college student in Detroit. As Film Threat evolved into a respected national magazine, he relocated to Los Angeles. The print magazine was retired in 1997 when it was re-launched as a web site. FilmThreat.com found a huge audience online and was named one of the top five movie web sites by the Wall Street Journal. Chris has appeared as a film expert on MSNBC, E!, CNN, Travel Channel, and Reelz Channel. Chis has also hosted shows on FX, Starz, IFC and G4TV’s Attack of the Show as the show’s film expert. His weekly movie review segment DVDuesday was among the most popular on G4. Chris is also an author, having written The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made and The Complete DVD Book. His book The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide is considered the bible of the industry and is required reading at film school.
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I absolutely love that this man went straight to "re do the sequel trilogy"
You automatically got to love a guy like that😁
Why though? He's literally contradicting himself. First he says the problem with today's films is making reboots/sequels and adaptations of existing I.P., yet he says he would do EXACTLY the same thing if he could green light some projects.
I like and agree with some things that Chris Gore talks about in some of these videos about the film industry, but he makes it sound like he would do different.
However, if you ask him what he would do, it's basically the same thing everyone else in the industry is doing.
Is everyone really that enamored with Chris Gore that they don't actually listen to what he's saying?
@@Phobia38 a reboot and a remake or two different things
@@chrono2959
You're right!
A reboot resets a chronology that's been established over multiple films, while a remake is usually concerned with updating a single film for modern times.
...so technically by "remaking" an entire trilogy, he would actually be making a reboot by definition.
Which again leads me to wonder how no one sees the hypocrisy in his statements here.
Out of all of the projects he said he would green light, he's only got one "original" idea, and even that idea is mostly pressed by the I.P. of Star Wars.
@@Phobia38 yes but I reboot as in the Batman movies The Other Batman movies are still part of the Batman movies collection what he's speaking of is wiping them out of all chronology and existence and remaking them not remaking more remaking them ...you get it
*And when the world needed him most, he returned.*
You know
Facts 🤣🤣🤣
Nice!
But he's finally gone overboard on yet again coming back to Star Wars
@@mstrider80 seemed relevant to me
Love these Chris Gore interviews.
Me too. Though he raves on about movies I either don't know (coz they are for a niche market) or Star Wars... which also is a niche market; albeit a very big niche market; he does point out with accuracy why Hollywood sucks these days and what is wrong with Hollywood.
Marc Webb made TASM movies Chris Gore tears these movies too pieces
@@stijnvdv2 star wars is a niche market???😂😂
A voice of reason in an age of insanity.
Hollywood desperate needs to make mid budget movies a common thing. It seems so much of Hollywood is either low budget indie films or big $200 million blockbusters. We need movies that range from like $50 to $100 million. Enough money that you can do more than a little indie movie but not so much that the movie doesn't need to make $800 million to be profitable. I think most studios should prioritize mid budget movies. Make like one or two big $150 - $200 million blockbusters a year and have the rest be under $100 million.
And since the movie doesn't need to be a monster success, it alows the film makers room to make more unique and creative desitions. Also a lesser budget forces the film makers to think creativity within their restraints.
Strategies like this lead to movies like Deadpool ($60 million), Joker ($70 million), Kingsman ($80 million), Baby Driver ($35 million), Knives Out ($40 million), Arrival ($50 million), Annihilation ($55 million), John Wick ($30 million), The Man From U.N.C.L.E. ($85 million), The Greatest Showman ($85 million).
The reason they don't but so often is because they can't rely on physical media sales as a backup in the event the film doesn't do well. You're describing the very business logic that used to be the norm; that all changed for a reason: streaming giants and the death of physical media. Yes, the films you listed got made anyway because some persistent producers pushed to make it happen, but theyre in the minority because it's still a riskier bet than it was 15yrs ago. Increased risk means fewer and fewer producers are gonna be for it. They can't hedge their bets the same way they used to. The mid-budget priority won't rise in prominence until they iron out the business model in this streaming war climate.
I agree - a mid-budget with today's tech would allow unthinkably high budget sci-fi/fantasy movies by 80s standards and a huge PILE of said novels - from classic Ace Doubles to 60s, 70s, 80s science fiction and fantasy stories begging to be made into a movie. Unlike "Dune" they were written in a cinematic style and would transfer almost 1:1 - Instead of one blockbuster make several good budget adaptations. Chances are one or more will be the NEXT major franchise that's soullessly re-booted 20+ years from now.
@@chrisjfox8715 Traditional movie theaters may be dying, and it's unclear whether the shift to streaming services can support big budget films anymore. But it is also not clear what type of mid budget films might appeal to audiences.
@@chrisjfox8715 I would say almost exactly the opposite. Since subscriber-based streaming doesn't allow you to actually make much money off an individual movie, what streaming will kill off are the big budget movies. What are more likely to get green-lit in the future are movies with a less than 100 million budget.
@@liljenborg2517 not for the big screen. That's just it, people are discerning what they spend their theater money on based on whether it's a worthy theater experience versus whether it's good enough to watch at home. Yes more and more people's home theaters are getting larger and louder but millions of people still love going out for a large enough film.
Again, tons of original mid-budget films are already scattered across Netflix and the like. The complaint people have is that not enough quality ones are being released in theaters. It's literally a fact right now that big budget films are the ones mostly overtaking public cinemas, and the influence that streaming had is the reason way. It gave people the option of how they want to spend their money and their attention spans, the data has spoken, and studios responded accordingly.
"Hey Chris, let's talk about a movie"
Chris: " Star Wars"
I mean the sequels were just that bad
This begs only one question - why the hell isn't Chris Gore running a movie studio?!
Because his ideas wouldn't make money - I can tell the ideas he had wouldn't really be interesting unless they wowed me with a script and a good crew. It's easy to critique Hollywood on what it's doing wrong - and I completely agree with him - but it's much harder to actually be selecting which movies will be future successes.
He makes bad decisions
Because a middle-aged, Gen Xer who can't let go of the 80's, has nothing creative or substantial of merit on his resume and loves to rant about sequels and reboots yet wishes he could make various sequels, reboots and adaptations of comics has no business in show business. He belongs on some message board or reddit with other people who are easily ignored...
@@errhka it's amazing how many people don't get this. People complain about unoriginal content yet refuse to show up when the original content comes along.
Some comics do deserve a adaption long overdue
When Chris said "Marcia Lucas documentary" I almost keeled over in sheer respect and love. Man after my own heart
She saved Star Wars
She was one genius who made chicken salad out of chicken shit.
Agreed! While I'm certainly glad he pointed out the Cantina scene, I wish he had slipped in a few words about the invaluable changes made to the final battle. As well as the response from George's fellow filmmakers upon viewing that first cut. 😬
I mean, I realize the interview isn't about _Marcia and Star Wars,_ but whenever this topic comes up, I always hope that Marcia gets her due.¹
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¹ ─ Which immediately makes me think of the incredibly talented an innovative Oscar-winning technicians that helped make Star Wars what it was. . .whose work, and I believe possibly _credits,_ had been wiped away after the special editions came to be.
🤔Do I have the latter incorrect?
@@CaesiusX I don't know about your last question, I'm far from an expert on the Special Edition changes, but you win the TH-cam comment award anyway for the use of a citation superscript footnote, an em-dash, and that scene break, great symbols, god dang.
@@GunnarClovis 🤭 _Thanks!_ 😄
"Do we need more Fast and the Furious movies?" I've been wondering the same thing for years now. I can't sit through 10 minutes of one of those movies.
Well the box office tell people want it
for those who are into storyline/plot etc will not stand the movie even for guy who obsessed with racing also couldn't stand it. Fast and the Furious movies is dead after 2003.
Simple because many people still watching it..
I kind of liked Tokyo Drift but i won't argue it being anything but stupid fun. The last one though with cars in space that jumped the shark.
People watch them in droves. As long as they make a ton of money they'll never stop making them.
I appreciate you guys giving this dude time. This man is why I write. His passion for film on Attack of the Show is what convinced me to hunker down and just type- every day.
It's been about 2000 words per day since, what 2005?
Anyway, you rock.
Rock on dude! You're gonna make it!
that song bro.......amazing work
Rocky is absolutely my mom's favorite movie. She's always throwing quotes at me. Cool to hear Chris talk about the character that got that movie best picture the year it came out.
Hollywood needs more Chris Gores.
Yeah but his main thing is Star Wars and comic hero's. I mean if we've seen one thing in the past 15 years being puked out at nauseam it's those kinda movies. I wish to see a real adventure movie... like no freak'n politics, no feminist 'independent girl' stuff or that kind of stuff, just an original movie that could be as original as Indiana Jones was or the Mummy, National Treasure or the Robert Langdon movies... that kind of stuff.
@@stijnvdv2 Check out the Film Threat Podcast. I can assure you that Gore is not ONLY about Star Wars.
@@claduke I second that.
@@stijnvdv2 I grew up in Chris’s era and you have to understand how much of an impact Star Wars had. And to see it demolished is disheartening. Trust me Chris talks about everything.
I’m 40 and I get where Chris is coming from. But also, old man yells at cloud is also a thing.
Wow! He mentioned a movie on Marcia Lucas ! I second that motion! You never hear much about her but she was essential to the 70s film school generation. She cut Taxi Driver and New York New York and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore just to name a few. After the 70s, it's like she disappeared. Kudos to Chris! I'd feel very grateful if my film ends up at Gore Movie Studio!
And I think she was heavily involved in American Graffiti, as well.
Man, give this guy a movie studio! This all sounds so refreshing!
Remaking the unnecessary Star Wars sequels and a film adaptation of Survivor? No thanks. There is a reason Gore has never made it as a filmmaker.
He has 1 original idea out of what he said he would do as the head of a studio.
He contradicts himself so much in the interview. He spends the 1st half of the video talking trash about how all studios do is make reboots, sequels, or adaptations of existing I.P. with the occasional original idea that's usually lower budgeted. Yet, when asked what he would like to green light, he says he would reboot the sequel trilogy for Star Wars, adapt 2 books HE likes, and creat 1 original documentary that even he said would fit in with his other choices, which are all based on existing I.P.
His studio wouldn't be that different than what everyone is currently doing.
@@Phobia38 I don't think you understood anything
@@larrote6467
No? Please elaborate. And I'm not being facetious.
I'm genuinely always down for a good conversation or debate and to hear someone else's opinions.
dude I don't think I've ever heard ANYONE reference Strikeforce: Morituri...like EVER. The Highdive alone would blow people's minds..no pun intended. Chris Gore is a rare dude in this film game. And I've gotta do more research on Marcia Lucas. I, apparently had no idea how deep that rabbit hole went..
Absolutely. I loved that series. But as you've said; very few of my fellow comic book nerds as kids
liked the book because of the premise.
There's a video here on YT about how Star Wars was saved in the edit. It's not specifically about her, but about the editing of Star Wars and you can see a bunch of the changes she made.
@@cbalan777 CHEERS!
@@cbalan777 It is bullshit. Watch *that* video get debunked. Paul Hirsch can also debunk it for you. And so can the "Making Of..." books.
@@mechtech220 That video has been debunked. Instead, watch, "How SW was saved in the edit, was saved in the edit". It is full of inaccuracies and misrepresentation.
I've heard part of George Lucas's technique was to just shoot a lot of film and work it out in the edit, but having someone able to work it out in the edit is very important.
JJ Abrams is the same way, Chris Nolan, etc
He always prided himself more as an editor, as his student films have shown.
Martin Scorsese would be the first to tell you that if it wasn't for Thelma Schoonmaker, he wouldn't have the career he's had.
George A Romero did the same with all his zombie movies. Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead etc. He would shoot like 20 takes of a single scene and just edit together the best takes of each segment of the scene.
A reboot is like getting the same Christmas present you got last year, except it's wrapped in shiny new paper with a bow on it
What about True Grit? What about The Thing? What about The Fly? What about The Jungle Book?
@@andrewlaxton50 'The thing' was rebooted because you can't remake perfection.
My point is it's ten times harder to come up with original material than it is to adapt
@@interstellarbeatteller9306 It's easy to come up with an original idea and story. But, it's even harder to sell and market it. That's business.
@@evertonporter7887 In my opinion It's way easier to sell a generic POS movie than it is to come up with an original & unique story.....So why don't they write a bunch of trash scripts the studios want and get rich that way?
“Sci fi should go back to ideas and not special effects” *JJ Abrams sitting in corner shaking*
This guy is the hero entertainment needs.
I agree with all of his selections except I know if they redid the Star Wars trilogies or prequels, any major studio would likely just screw it up again.
I could fix Star Wars. I could also fix Star Trek too.
@@cbalan777 I dont think Star Trek is broken from a movie standpoint. I feel like the drawn out philosophical version of star trek belongs on tv. As far as Star Wars goes just use the EU books theyve already set a great template for a sequel trilogy. Also idk if Id go the unknown actor route with Star Wars again. Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson are 2 of SW favs and they were well known. I think you just need actors who can lose themselves in the roll. He would never so it but DDL as the villian of SW would be amazing.
@@The0Kiyubii0Kid When was the last really good Star Trek movie? The reboot from 12 years ago? (2009) First Contact from 1996? Seems like there is about a 12 year gap between good Star Trek movies.
As for the EU, I think the one thing Disney got right was canning the EU, and I'm saying that as a fan of the Thrawn trilogy. It would have been a mess to try to do EU stuff.
@@cbalan777 I actuallu enjoyed into darkness even tho it was a repear of 2. I mean Star Trek might not be knocking ir out of the park but they are solid. The SW sequels are hot garbage.
@@The0Kiyubii0Kid I'll give you that the Star Wars sequels are bad. I think the issue with Star Trek is they never found the right balance. Trek is often seen as too nerdy to appeal to general audiences, so they end up having shaky cam lens flare stuff to sort of sex it up, but it never quite works.
Man, I love Chris Gore. I agree with everything talks about here. The industry is killing great artistry and great storytelling for money. I just hope one day it gets back to innovative and powerful storytelling.
But they are not even making money these movies are Bombing lol no one is watching this garbage and they just continue to drive built up franchises into the ground I don’t get it
@@Madanth0ny Yeah, I don’t get it either. They waste a lot of opportunity and potential.
Denis Villeneuve is showing up everyone right now.
@@blankblank2370 Yeah, I loved Dune and of his other films. I’m so happy Dune: Part Two happening!!!!!🙌🔥🙌🔥🙌🔥
@@cruisinusa5110 Yeah, I used to get excited about movie news like every year and everything a retread. That’s why I love studios like A24. They consistently push original exciting films and they sell really awesome merch. It’s my goal as a filmmaker to work with them one day, I would love have them distribute my first feature film. Commercial studios just need producers who care about original pure artistry making decisions on what scripts to push and directors to hire. It’s just to much capital in focus nowadays and it shows, these studios waist a lot of potential when comes to new great directors and screenwriters. Diversity is a huge problem as well. They make it so hard for new talents to arise. Audiences are to blame as well, people need to support small films just like they do IP’s. But hopefully everything will get resolved one day.👍
Chris is so awesome. He's so reasonable and measured and he absolutely understands fans and where studios have gone wrong.
@@edwardhewitt9229 your 100percent right...if you look the critics rating most succeessfull movies are low in ratings..and when the movie is score almost perfect that movie usually flop....so the question whos producers wants flop movie?
Return of the True Nerd... we need you soo much!
I would love to see a video of chris talking exclusively 80’s horror
Let me add to that, saying that I would love to see a video of chris talking.
Working title; "Gore about gore."
Gore on gore
Chris Gore is very grounded. Thoughtful guy. We need more of this.
Keep doing interviews with Chris, please. Breath of fresh air.
Yeah if I were the head of the studios I would either remake the sequel trilogy with or without the actors or just straight up delete them all together. The Star Wars saga already HAD a satisfying conclusion with ROTJ.
100% delete! 👌
If I were head of a studio I'd bypass the sequel trilogy altogether and go straight to episodes X, XI and XII. Then I'd make an entirely new Star Wars trilogy set a thousand years after episode IX. With both trilogies, I'd plan out the stories out in advance, ask for imput from the fans and act accordingly.
Strike force Morituri!! We who are about to die. I’m 43 now. I have them issues still in my collection. Got them when I was 11 or 12. I was listening to this video washing dishes when Chris mentioned that. So excited to hear that. Would be awesome if that story came back one way or another. Great stuff.
Yes! This series was fantastic! Perfect for a movie or series!!
All I want from modern day Hollywood is to go back to the art of good storytelling again. Instead of whatever they’ve been doing lately? Lol
"She was out of Hollywood at that point"
Well, Lucas was "out" also. Lucas was never "in" Hollywood or the studio system, hence all the negativity towards him. It is a shame that Marcia never continued her career, though.
Lucas was IN Hollywood lol look at who all his friends were and well who he is. It’s like saying Kobe wasn’t “in” the nba because he didn’t hang out with his team mates and was disliked.
@@scoobytwenty327 You've heard of American Zoetrope, right? In San Francisco.
And Skywalker Ranch, in Marin County.
They never wanted to be part of Hollywood. They just needed the studios for distribution.
In 1969, Lucas co-founded the studio American Zoetrope with Coppola, hoping to create a liberating environment for filmmakers to direct outside the perceived oppressive control of the Hollywood studio system. Coppola thought Lucas's Electronic Labyrinth could be adapted into his first full-length feature film, which was produced by American Zoetrope as THX 1138, but was not a success. Lucas then created his own company, Lucasfilm, Ltd., and directed the successful American Graffiti (1973).
Being friends with Spielberg and De Palma doesn't make him "in Hollywood"
@@scoobytwenty327 Where is Amblin? Universal backlot, LA.
@@Ruylopez778 yes it does. The seventies were a time when that was a commercial venture because the people with the cash were more daring. He never would've had the clout to even make Star Wars if he wasn't firmly intrenched in the establishment
@@MicahMicahel American Graffiti was the "clout". That was what Ladd was buying into.
And that movie would never have been financed or released without Coppola's help.
And Lucas originally went to United Artists to get AG made. Probably you know that Warner Bros. disliked THX, right?
Could listen to Chris for hours :) He's great.
The reason there are few films based on "why are we so divided" is because filmmakers are all one one side of the divide, and consider those on the other side monstrous. You know exactly what kind of film that would be before it's ever made. Who would want to watch that?
Well Ben Shapiro is making movies now, so you can always enjoy those terrible movies.
That quote about not every sci fi movie being a spectacle, I think Gattaca did that well...even Safety Not Guaranteed to a lesser extent.
Every time I see chris in the thumbnail, you automatically have an addition view. No idea who he is, but I could listen to him talk all day. Needs a podcast.;
If I'm being completely honest there are very few reboots that I care about. I actually didn't realize how many of them are essentially throw away movies that you never ever think about again.
For me its not hollywoods problem why chris gore said rhe movies today sucks...its people preference...exmple fast and the furious that movie is so long..why still there? Because many people still watching it..movie makers adapt on people preference than critics....
This guy is a treasure.
I can't think of many remakes/reboots where people have said, 'Yeah, that was great. So much better than the original.' It's usually, 'Meh. Had a good time, but I'd prefer to watch the original,' and then they forget the movie even existed. It's the big budget version of social media, a quick fix that makes you feel good for a short while but doesn't really give you any real satisfaction.
Scarface, The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatches, The Maltese Falcon, Ben-Hur, The Fly, The Departed, Gaslight.... Great remakes exist, but they need a good reason to be remade other than "cashing in on nostalgia" because that's not good enough.
The new Dune movie beats the old one by a lot, if we can count that one.
@@colliric
Exactly, it's very possible to do good to great sequels, remakes, and/or reboots
But many people also forget that many of the films we consider great classics weren't always financial or critical successes upon initial release.
The Thing 1982 and Blade Runner were both critically panned and box office bombs, yet are regarded as some of the greatest films of all time today.
Empire Strikes Back was initially received with many negative reviews and made less than A New Hope, but made enough to warrant the finally in the Trilogy. It wasn't deemed one of the best Sci-fi films for years after it's initial release.
Nothing in the filmmaking industry is a certainty .
It makes me happy that someone said "The Thing". Good, but not better than the original. Could have been better than what we got, but the studio overrode the practical effects they'd already shot in favor of half-assed CGI.
There are other movies I'd add, but they go into this category of "respectful sequels". They don't try to kill the T-Rex, so to speak, but more of a love letter to the original.
Chris nailed it when came to the problems regarding the current state of films where agenda is prioritized over substance.
Love these videos with Chris Gore! So informative.
45 seconds in, and once again a statement from so many other videos and comment sections gets further confirmed and validated.
That it never gets old ragging on how awful of a crap fest it was what they did to those Star Wars movies.
Worst movies ever made, it’s not even a competition.
They sucked, but the prequels were already trash. It isn't like there has been good Star Wars movies for 38 years.
Here are the five movies I would greenlight immediately (from most to least wanted):
1. Tron 3
2. A Warcraft 3 movie
3. A Total Drama movie in live action
4. A sequel to Monsters vs Aliens
5. A sequel to Big Hero 6
This guy has the answers and I’m onboard‼️ great interview‼️
I've never seen someone so politely indict an entire industry. Love it
When I squint, I see him wearing a Lightening Fast VCE Repair t-shirt.
I'm watching all of these Chris Gore interviews for the third or fourth time. Some of the best commentary ever!
New one coming tonight at 5pm pst
Survivor is the one book in the past 20 years that I have wanted to adapt into a movie. It needs to happen. Probably the best book of his that’s easiest to adapt. Fight Club was brilliant and a masterpiece. Let’s get David Fincher back in the picture.
Palahaniuk is hell to adapt. He’s a real writer , with all the good things that that means
Palahniuk is the best kind of writer. He writes in such a way that his works are difficult to adapt. Sometimes because of structure. Sometimes because of content. Haunted needs to become an HBO max tv show.
Survivor came out at the wrong time to adapt, since there protagonist is a religious charlatan who hijacks an airplane.
I can imagine it also being hard to adapt into a screenplay because of the fast pace of the novel.
Palianuk. Is my favorite writer. A surreal writer for sure. His books weave into unlikely but visually intriguing allegorical places. They speak about the paradoxes of modern life.
I've always wanted Rant to be greenlit. With cgi there's possibility of an actor playing all the same four versions of Rant(Charles Casey, Green Taylor Sims, Chet Casey and Buster 'Rant' Casey. Have several of the characters in a room being interviewed and then fade into each vignette.
Doubt we ever will get the supposed sequels. Or the final chapter of the Doomed/Damned series.
Choke was fairly good but so forgotten.
Lullaby would be an interesting dark comedy.
I would love to see a proper "The Shadow" film with John Wick-like gunplay in a more modern setting.
We really need more original storys that will make in impact like he mentioned in the 70s. As a older gen z this would be more impacting than these remakes and safe movies that has no suspense and pain to the characters and the audiences
Audiences have to show up tho... Hollywood's focused on remakes and formulas because the data tells them that people would rather stream the smaller films at home. There's plenty of original content on Netflix and the like
People need to be willing to support that. I'm an indie comic guy and saying "Hey I'm making a brand new thing" has gotten me almost nothing monetarily. Established franchises already have an audience baked in, and are in some sense a sure thing.
In the arena of people’s attention spans, getting them excited about a new IP is more difficult than ever. How much did Valerian make? There are quite a few movies audiences did not take a chance on and thus why Hollywood relies on existing IP’s to generate cash flow.
@@breadordecide yep! With streaming, people are getting more and more used to turning a movie off at home if they don't like it, so the idea of having to go to a theater and commit to a film..they need to know that it's worth their time. New IP stands the biggest risk of them being disappointed so they'd rather invest their time in what they know.
I want more original films in theaters just as much as the next guy, but the business case for it just isn't there
@@chrisjfox8715 And video games. Players can make them whatever they want. Why let someone else tell you their story when you can participate in your own?
Personal list of 5 projects I would greenlight:
- Redo the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy right
- The Alchemist (adaptation from the book of Paolo Coelho)
- Superman done right
- Documentary about Hollywood and how it became so politicized
- An original story of a talented Indie filmmaker
And prequels, they are awful
These videos are very therapeutic for me. I agree with basically all of these points.
I read Survivor maybe 15 years ago and hearing you talk about it made me remember how great it was. Would love to see it made in to a movie.
I could see making a safe movie, but the Force Awakens is like bowling by yourself with the bumpers over the gutters, after renting out the whole bowling ally, and making a wish on a magic dragon to always get a strike anyway.
and then the ball starts going straight, then slightly veering off then suddenly jumps over the bumpers and goes down the corridor into the bathroom stalls.
This is hilarious... you are hilarious.
@@pmendes99 Lol yeah. Or they were like, “Ok, Bowling went well. Now let’s go play Russian Roulette in Bangkok.”
Too bad they pissed off the magic dragon in the process.
I knew how little I cared about The Force Awakens, when a theater re-released it near my house last week; and I just didn't care. Same with the rest of the sequel trilogy. It's not even worth the money or time to see them again.
If there is an alternate universe where Chris is in charge of a big studio, it would be awesome to live there.
Gorefilm - Great name for a studio that specialises in horrormovies
This guy speaks my thoughts on the movie industry ! God bless his wishes!
Another great interview with Chris Gore! Yes, there should be a documentary on Marcia Lucas - it's long overdue. She worked on some of the most monumental films of all time, such as TAXI DRIVER (with Tom Rolf and Melvin Shapiro). Hopefully, it would dispel this the myth of the "assembly cut being so awful" (all of them are) and that Marcia "saved STAR WARS in the edit" - which is apocryphal. It's a disservice to the other Oscar-winning Editors on the film, Richard Chew and Paul Hirsch.
The first assembly, edited by John Arthur Jympson, was not to George Lucas' liking, they butted heads and Jympson was fired. Lucas, who had been working on other aspects, took charge and brought in Chew, Hirsch, and Marcia - each working through different parts of the film, and going back and forth with Lucas (with the release date looming, he also edited himself, uncredited). Yes, the success of STAR WARS was very much a collaborative process, as many films were, but everything that went into the Academy-award winning version, was approved by Lucas.
Amen!!!
The video “How an edit saved Star Wars” is the biggest BS ever made. There is a video debunking it.
If an edit “saved” Star Wars, then that should the case with every classic film.
Edits are meant to help the movie and put it all together. But it requires more than that.
Saying an “edit” saved it is a disservice and disrespectful to everyone else who also put they’re heart and soul into the project.
Gore: "Why are we not reminded of the fact that we're all the same?"
Every villain: "We're not so different, you and I."
Hollywood: "Subtlety!"
Dark Knight Returns as a movie could be awesome. I like that idea.
Ad Astra did a Great Job of doing a Character study set in an era of more advanced technology.
It is a beautiful film.
Dude I can’t BELIEVE you brought up Morituri! I’m not a big comic guy but I always liked that idea and story. I have a Morituri #1 in perfect condition doubt it will ever be worth anything but I’m hanging on to it.
Just tell a good story in a movie! Do not push your politics, especially when everybody sees it does not work, it only destroys.
"Luke lost the fight. Lost his hand" - you forgot to add "received bad news"
The questions that the interviewer asks are brilliant. I love it
It's very refreshing hearing him speak.
So glad to hear someone giving Confederacy of Dunces it's flowers! It's one of my all-time favorite books ever written. Having grown up in and around New Orleans, NO author that I've ever read has portrayed the feel of that amazing city more accurately than John Kennedy Toole did in this absolute gem of a novel! One can almost literally smell the streets of New Orleans oozing from the pages (anyone who has spent time there knows exactly what I mean). Not only that, but it's also one of the funniest books I've ever read. The books protagonist, Ignatius Reilly, is an unbelievably unique and quirky character that would lend itself very well too cinema, should they cast the right actor.
Confederacy of Dunces has a very sad and interesting back story as well, being discovered over a decade after the author's suicide, if memory serves (it's been a minute since I've read it). I remember being blown away by the preface before the book even got started. I can't recommend this book enough! 💯
"Yes!!! The reboots show that there's no criativity anymore whatsover, just money hunger, it's sad..." It was what I always used to say, but recently i saw Dune and really loved it, that book deserved a good adaptation (managing my expectations though, depends a lot of part II)
I agree with this guy on pretty much everything. He has a great understanding of both filmmaking and audiences. What I would love to see is a Starship Troopers that is actually based on the novel rather than just stealing the title and some character names for a totally unrelated film.
I'll simply settle for entertainment over being lectured, especially by people who have no businesses lecturing people. Bonus points for prioritizing story and interesting characters over checking boxes on a list.
lol when were you lectured to in a movie?
I watched The Expanse, a show that had a diverse cast and strong female characters, yet I never felt I was being lectured to at all.
Morituri...great name, very apt
The problem are not the makers, the problem are the audiences who keep supporting remakes, reboots, sequels and prequels, thats why the studios, who only care about money, keep making them. Art doesnt matter, only money.
because they know its just entertainment and at the end of the day it dont matter its just a movie or a tv show
Of coarse ..whose producers wants flop movies?
@@phillipmack2939 Entertainment is not a excuse for mediocrity
We need more of Chris Gore in our lives!
BUY HIS BOOK! I’m loving his book on film festivals.
Great comments about Marcia Lucas. She was the reason Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back were such great films. She was amazing and she should have been working for decades after.
I've always wanted to see Steinbeck's 'Travels With Charley' made into a film.
We got Harry and Tonto - that's something.
The only franchise reboot that ever worked was Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, which took only the barest essentials of the premise of the original show and used them as the basis for one of the most inventive and believable science fiction settings ever created. The storytelling and character development in the Galactica reboot was just exceptional.
If you were the head of a Hollywood movie studio, what 5 movies would you green light immediately?
I can’t think of five, but I would give Roland Emmerich (director of Stargate) the greenlight to finish the trilogy that was intended for Stargate (1994 w/James Spader and Kurt Russell) I watch this movie at least a few times a month and wonder what could have been if they finished it.
None, I would do it old school. Have people keep pitching me ideas, until we got to five I liked.
1. David Lynch's RONNIE ROCKET
2. Angela P. Robinson's D.E.B.S. 2
3. The final FRIDAY THE 13TH film to finish the original franchise
4. Anything Charles Burnett and Julie Dash wanted to do with final cut
5. TBD
1. Luke Skywalker starring Sebastian Stan (reboot of Star Wars universe similar to Iron Man kicking off the MCU)
2. Red Sister (adaptation of the novel by Mark Lawrence)
3. Old Man's War (adaptation of the novel by John Scalzi)
4. Edge of Tomorrow sequel
5. begin the Warhammer 40K cinematic universe
You know you can pin your comments to the top of the page, yeah?
He won me over as soon as he said remake the original trilogy. Also how he talked about getting back to the hero's journey. It's a timeless formula that humans relate to on a deep level. In the words of T'Challa "get this man a movie studio."
lol I love how all of his videos always come back to how shitty the SW sequel trilogy is.
Why do I feel like '92 was chosen to allow Silence of the Lambs (a franchise reboot) to be in his good graces?😂
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T2 was a sequel, not a reboot.
It's technically a sequel. Not a reboot. Prison guard Barny is played by the exact same black actor as in Manhunter.
The Norton starring Red Dragon was the technical "reboot". They didn't originally intend on re-adapting it until the Hannibal sequel was critically panned and they decided to go back to more familiar territory.
If the key players from the original Star Wars are back, why make an action movie for the kids? Why not switch up the genre and do something more nuanced for the original audience who have matured by forty years? Get the Coen Brothers or something and plunge into the more unexplored implications of characters with galactic travel capabilities and spiritual force powers.
I LOVE the Strikeforce Morituri idea.
I think it would help to not label Marvel as a one franchise studio, that makes independent films as well.
If I ran a movie studio, I would ban all of my horror films from having formulaic jump scares.
James Wan showed us that its not the jump scare that is the problem. Its when the jump scare is fake or false and then diffuses the audience’s tension and expectations. When the jump scares are all legit scares, they work well.
@@breadordecide I think most of James Wan’s Jump scares suck and are easily predictable. The only jump scare that has worked on me in last 7 years was in a movie that came out this year called The Night House. The reason why it worked is because it came out of completely nowhere and was so unforeseeable that it caught me off guard. James Wan knows how to do jump scares that are effective on the average audience member and that’s about it.
Never heard of Chris before. Wow, I could listen to him all day. What an interesting man.
Chuck's "Haunted" has the most incredible scene ever. You know the one. . . I've never laughed so hard in my life. It cannot be filmed.
I know the scene.
It makes me scared of swimming in the pool more than Jaws ever did.
I wonder if Chris discovered that 'The Dark Knight Returns' comic book series was made into two animated movies back in 2012 and 2013. I have the Bluray with both movies combined and it's one of my favorite Batman movies. I watch it at least once a year.
If you like Batman and you haven't seen it then you don't know what you're missing.
Chris and those like him, rational, imaginative and smart should be in the rooms movies are talked about being made.
Rational, imaginative, and being smart are why he ISN'T in Hollywood. They don't want you there. Same thing for most of our politics.
100% agree that the Star Wars sequel trilogy needs to be remade with respect for the characters and the story.
I would delete the sEqUeLs and replace them with stories from STAR WARS EU. Also i would delete evrything from Game Of Thrones after the end of Season 4 and i would continued with the books. In the end i would waiting George R.R Martin to finish the books.
Those books are dissapointing too. You give J. R. R. Martin too much credit.
@@MeczennikFitnessu I read The Fire And Blood. And I love it. I wish one day i buy them.
P. S : No one ask your opinion.
@@MeczennikFitnessu George R.R Martin is like George Lucas. I like them both.
@@panos617 No one asked for yours either. I can type what I want.
Actually, I would delete half of S4 since even there they got so many things wrong, especially for the final few episodes.
Pretty cool T-Shirt.Laserdisc was awesome back in the day with superb picture & sound.I love the Disc Jacket with so much information about the movie! I never minded flipping the Disc.
Anyway I agree Star Wars VII IX should be remade except we would not have Carrie Fisher,Harrison Ford is to old & maybe Mark Hamill could be in it.
I would love to hear how you’d write it!
And I agree with you about Terminator Dark Fate for sure and Ghostbusters 2016!
Has anyone ever thought of rebooting a movie, but changing the sex or race of the main characters? Try that 100 times.
Marcia Lucas and Confederacy of Dunces is spot on. And Thanos-snapping the entire sequel trilogy is necessary, because Rise of Skywalker turned all of Star Wars into The Palpatine Saga.
And if you're looking to add a franchise into the universe, do Larry Niven. Start with A World Out of Time...trailer: a man stares unbelieving out his single-person spaceship's window...another angle shows the spaceship floating through space, approaching Jupiter...man in the ship is still staring, can't process what he's seeing...keep pulling back, to reveal one of Jupiter's moons...Earth. A World Out of Time.
Thanks snapping the sequels becaue they were terrible even before the rise of skywalker. Even before the awful mess that was the last Jedi.
IMO a slight distinction should've been made between a standard *remake* (which has been done since the earliest days of cinema), and what we now consider a *reboot,* which _generally_ has to do with a franchise (or expected franchise).
And I've seen enough interviews with *Chris* to know that he just had a momentary crossing of wires when he credited the *Lord of the Rings* film that included rotoscoping to _Rankin-Bass_ instead of _Ralph Bakshi._ Afterall, _Bakshi's_ version of *Lord of the Rings* was released between the *The Hobbit* and *Return of the King* from _Rankin-Bass._ It happens. 🤷🏼♂️
I would love to see Stephen Lang play Batman in his film version of The Dark Knight Returns. He is an old man that we know can be buff and threatening.
Also, part of why the country is so divided is now we don't all actually want the same things. Instead of everyone having different approaches to the same goals, we have groups that have very different visions for the country and the world. Not everyone is content to have space for them to live and not bother other, some people want the entire world to be exactly how they decide. Common values are being eroded.
While he would be interesting, he’s too short for the role. I think Bruce Greenwood should return as the character in live action since he voiced the role in Under The Red Hood.
A Marcia Lucas documentary would be interesting as sometimes it's the person working with the artist that really makes the magic. She got very little credit publicly, but behind the scenes she was an incredible editor and that's the actual finished product that we see.
She won an Oscar for her work on Star Wars..
@Hello There
Hey, just watched it. Good stuff! 👌
I wish we could have gotten that third film in what was supposed to be the Chinatown trilogy.
Another TMNT like the 1990 original would be a gift.
These also have the reboot remake problem. My issue is, people’s solution to the hollywood problem is just to adapt things they like instead. The main problem exists: original scripts not based on prior works tend to die on a slush pile in someones computer.
Honestly, I rather they don’t do TMNT since we saw what they did with the Micheal Bay version. In my opinion, TMNT works only as a cartoon because seeing the Turtles in live action, both the 90s and 2014 just feels uncanny.
What about a more adult oriented movie or anime series that has a more serious tone like the comics
I'd just hold a contest where anyone can submit a script, a committee including Chris Gore would review, and I'd greenlight the five chosen.
The reboot issue is compounded even further by the fact that not only is it creatively bankrupt to reboot everything, but now those projects all have to have as much radical progressive politics shoved into them as possible. So these things are being made out of spite, to purposely exclude or antagonise the original audience to push an aggressive anti-male agenda.
Exactly
I'd love to see what The Last Starfighter would look like with modern vfx.
It would be cool to use the old footage and tastefully make it what they would have done if they could. But a total remake would ruin it, the rest of the film is awesome.
Please reboot Star Wars sequels! This is why I love Chris Gore!
The sequels? The prequels needed it first 🤣
True.
And if you do the prequels first, that’ll give you more ammo down the road for payoffs in the sequel trilogy. Yes, weird that they wouldn’t be mentioned in the OG trilogy, but hey…. Possibilities 🤣
I disagree. First he says no more reboots and his first answer is to reboot the sequels. Do a new good trilogy.
@@TheBrainDunne there ate always exceptions to rules. If he’s calling the shots, so be it.
The familiar with a twist remakes are a good starting point when wanting to tell a story from film again. You cant tell me Due Date isnt a spiritual remake of Planes, trains and automobiles. both movies are good and unique enough from each other that you cant tell the first few times through.
We only need 50,000 more like him and I think we can win this
The biggest problem is that they either completely ignore the source material, or make an exact copy that was not even needed.