https://www.vg247.com/2018/12/10/metro-2033-film-cancelled/
Looks like we successfully dodged that bullet. What the hell MGM...
Looks like we successfully dodged that bullet. What the hell MGM...
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Metro 2033 film project halted because ‘A lot of things didn’t work’ - VG247
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Not to be that arsehole, especially since I work there, but this story has been reported by Variety based on a lengthy, in-depth interview on VG247. That's where the quote is from.
https://www.vg247.com/2018/12/10/metro-2033-film-cancelled/
There's more from the interview here, too:
https://www.vg247.com/2018/12/10/metro-exodus-dmitry-glukhovsky-political-interview/
https://www.vg247.com/2018/12/10/metro-2033-film-cancelled/
There's more from the interview here, too:
https://www.vg247.com/2018/12/10/metro-exodus-dmitry-glukhovsky-political-interview/
Good on the author for keeping that creative vision tight. Hopefully he finds a studio that gels with his image and we get a kick-ass movie. In the mean time, what sort of brain-dead focus groups is MGM taking from? The cut-and-paste into an American city can't be what audiences are clamoring for; that "Americans like stories about America" line has got to be some sort of production scapegoat to save on expenses not filming abroad? Who knows, but I'm jonesing for all sorts of different stories across this great wide world of ours.
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I actually linked the wrong story, there's two! https://www.vg247.com/2018/12/10/metro-exodus-dmitry-glukhovsky-political-interview/
It's not really your fault, given Variety didn't even deign to put a link in themselves, tbh. But just wanted to point out!
I feel like "Americans like stories that are set in America" isn't actually true at all, it's just a Hollywood habit. Like casting all white people for example.
I hadn't heard that they planned to set it in America, that's ridiculous. Why would they throw away the strengths of the original story's setting? That would be absurd, like making a Monster Hunter adaptation starring modern-day soldiers with rifles!
What's the point of buying the right to the film version of a story if they just wanted to take away everything that made it unique?
Maybe some day we'll get a good adaptation of the book, but at this moment in time, I don't really see it happening as it would probably be too art house to get the budget it deserves.
Maybe some day we'll get a good adaptation of the book, but at this moment in time, I don't really see it happening as it would probably be too art house to get the budget it deserves.
Guys, its not good that the film was cancelled. It is actually a shame that mgm didn't comply with the author demands.
I guess so but wasn't the game faithful to the book in this respect?
Yeah I have to agree. This is a weird habit and should be broken. And with this series the setting is part of the DNA.
We can wait for a proper adaptation.
