hollywood is run by idiots

A few years ago, a director named Kerry Conran spent 4 years on his Mac making a 6-minute trailer about giant robot war machines. A famous producer saw the footage, and that trailer became the movie, ‘Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’. It lost $80 million.

A few years after that, director Michael Davis made a 17-minute reel of animated footage showing different action scenes that he wanted to turn into a movie. The ideas were stupid, but so is Hollywood so New Line gave him a bunch of money and those drawings became ‘Shoot Em Up’. It lost $52 million.

52 is less than 80, so sensing that this was moving in the right direction, Hollywood will try the same idea once again. The LA Times says…

When Federico Alvarez came to Hollywood two weeks ago, he was a total unknown.
After seeing his short film, which depicts an invasion of Montevideo by a battalion of giant robots, Mandate Pictures agreed to bankroll a $30-million upcoming film for Alvarez, with the filmmaker getting a cool $1 million director’s fee.
Alvarez also made the rounds of the talent agencies and ended up leaving town with a CAA agent team as well as a deal with Anonymous Content to represent him for commercials. Most important, Alvarez also came away with an A-list Hollywood godfather, “Spider-Man” director Sam Raimi, who will serve as a mentor and producer, through his Ghost House Pictures, on Alvarez’s first American film.

So it would seem they forgot that they already tried this once with giant robots. Which means they probably forgot they tired this with drawings too. Which is why I’ve already started on 17 minutes of drawings. It’s like ‘300’. Except it’s girls. And it’s just one, and she’s naked. And not fighting. So, basically, nothing like ‘300’, but once they hear ‘300’ those dipshits will get so excited they’ll start handing me their wallets and car keys.