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THR: Behind Robert Downey Jr.'s "Doolittle" Debacle (or, how RDJ convinced a studio to let him give a dragon an enema)
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Well. Now he shall have a video of him sticking his hand up a 5 Ton Dragon's rectum. While it might make for a terrible movie, it's makes for a hysterical antic in a meta sense.
Well, since no one else asked, I'll be the first: why is a dragon shoving bagpipes up its butt?
I'm pretty sure someone already wrote that fan fic.
I'm pretty sure someone already wrote that fan fic.
Implication is the dragon ate a bagpipe player. I also read he pulls out a human thigh bone.
There is nothing I love more than actors or producers having creative control and completely shitting the bed.
This looks like a movie generated by AI.
This looks like a movie generated by AI.
Outside of Marvel movie, he did Scanner Darkly, Sherlock Holmes, and tropic thunders post drug rehab, and those movies are great. A few stinker is normal for an actor doing many movie.
"Downey, according to sources close to the project, then proceeded to tear up the pages. "I have some new ideas," "
Like. Literally grabbed someone's script, someone who spend months on it and was proud of it and excited to be working on a Downey, Jr. film, and tore it up?
Like. Literally grabbed someone's script, someone who spend months on it and was proud of it and excited to be working on a Downey, Jr. film, and tore it up?
Adam Sandler is right now in the biggest movie snub of this year's Oscars.
i personal love his Holmes movies and wished hed fucking hurry up with the third movie already? its been waaay to long.
It's rare that an actor gets creative control and produces something good.
For example, I love John Boyega but after Pacific Rim Uprising he should never be allowed near a writer's room again.
First 10 minutes were decent. Goes to shit as soon as everyone starts talking. Downey's accent was awful and the scorpion boner joke was embarrassing.
It's not long since he did the same accent better in Sherlock
More and more i believe having someone on your squad to tell you know is more important than having someone telling you can.
Should have been a smooth 100 mil at most. The thing is, looking at the commericals it doesn't look like a 175 mill. It has green screen look, like you know it was all on a soundstage
I also didn't know it had a dragon. I only glanced at trailers and figured it was RDJ on some kind of Johnny Depo we have your soul Disney contract.
I kind of expected him to either take a break or star in a big budget turd.
Looks like he chose the latter. He'll probably still find work easy enough.
I don't the think the idea itself is bad.
"Even a dragon suffers from constipation" can make for some hilarious moments.
"Even a dragon suffers from constipation" can make for some hilarious moments.
Honestly, is any Hollywood actor a draw nowadays?
I think that characteristic has shifted to be had by franchises themselves.
Tom Cruise is the last one I think. But yeah, Star Power alone selling a film died a long time ago. Good riddance, IMO.
Leonardo DiCaprio, it helps that pretty much all his movies are guaranteed to be good.
I was looking at that Dolittle trailer thinking "why didn't they just do another Sherlock Holmes?"
Yeah, you still need Hollywood stars for movies to be successful or popular, like Christian Bale and Matt Damon for Ford v Ferrari and Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver for Marriage Story.
Doolittle might seem more successful but it also cost near enough twice as much to produce. If we assume an extra $100 million for marketing then it probably needs to be in the region of $600 mil at the Box Office to turn a profit in its theatrical run.
What is it with box office bombs and behind the scenes drama?
Somebody hasn't seen Chaplin.
Anyway, this isn't the end of the world for Robert Downey Jr. He can just get involved in another blockbuster film.
Somebody hasn't seen Chaplin.
Anyway, this isn't the end of the world for Robert Downey Jr. He can just get involved in another blockbuster film.