The Espinof site caught up with A Day in Hell & Crystal Trap director John McTiernan during BIFFF. The filmmaker attacked the studios, which he says always produce the same movies.
Invited to give a master class During the 2022 BIFFF (Brussels Fantastic Film Festival), director John McTiernan spoke to a journalist from a Spanish site. Espinov.
The director of Predator, Piet de Cristal, Hell Day, Chasing Red October, or even the director of Last Action Hero, has not been kind to recent action films.
to the question “Do you think action movies are dead?“, the filmmaker answers:Too many useless people making the same movie. I couldn’t do it. Making the same movie twice? Some process the same film ten times.
Today, studios are no longer looking for directors, they just want to make money. They don’t care what movie they are making.
Studios don’t care if their movies are about extinct creatures, superheroes, wizards, or witches, it’s clear that they don’t make movies for the people..”
The filmmaker really regrets the lack of ingenuity and, above all, the lack of risks on the part of studios who prefer to produce sequels, remakes or prequels rather than new releases.
After the failure of his films The 13th Warrior and Rollerball and spending 328 days in prison for wiretapping and lying to the FBI, John McTiernan hasn’t made a film since 2003’s Basic.
The latter still specifies to the Spanish journalist that he has two projects: a sci-fi and a horror film… Will McTiernan find a studio to finance his films? To be continued…
Source: allocine
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