David Fincher over 20000 Leagues Under the Sea

Eerder bleek dat David Finchers 20000 Leagues under the Sea flink vertraagd was. Nu blijkt dat de film er helemaal niet gaat komen. In een interview ging Fincher in op de reden waarom. Hij zei:

“You get over $200 million — all motion picture companies have corporate culture and corporate anxieties. Once we got past the list of people we could cast as the different characters in the film, once we got past one or two names which made them very comfortable, making a movie at that price, it became this bizarre endeavour to find which three names you could rub together to make platinum.”

Hij vervolgde:

“I wanted Aronnax to be French, God forbid! It got to be a little too confusing to me. I had this argument with a studio executive one time where he said to me, ‘why is it that the actors always side with you and we’re paying them?’ And I said, ‘I think it’s because at some level, they know that my only real allegiance is to the movie.’ And because that’s very clear and it never wavers, they may not agree with the image of the movie I have in my head, but they know that’s what I’m after. They’ve seen me for 100 days take the long way around. I think that when you’re trying to put together a handful of people to deliver all those facets of humanity and who work well together, it has to be in service of the narrative and not in service of the balance sheet. It became very hard to appease the anxieties of Disney’s corporate culture with the list of names that allowed everyone to sleep at night. I just wanted to make sure I had the skill-sets I could turn the movie over to. Not worrying about whether they’re big in Japan.”

Daarom zal de film er uiteindelijk niet komen, maar Fincher had grote plannen:

“Dude, it was fucking cool. It was smart and crazy entertaining, with the Nautilus crew fighting every kind of gigantic Ray Harryhausen thing. But it also had this riptide to it. We were doing Osama bin Nemo, a Middle Eastern prince from a wealthy family who has decided that white imperialism is evil and should be resisted. The notion was to put kids in a place where they’d say, “I agree with everything he espouses. I take issue with his means—or his ends.” I really wanted to do it, but in the end I didn’t have the stomach lining for it.”

20.000 Leagues Under the Sea

Het scenario van de film is gebaseerd op het gelijknamige boek (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) van Jules Verne uit 1870. Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea vertelt het verhaal van kapitein Nemo en de bemanning van de onderzeeër, the Nautilus. Ze ondergaan verschillende avonturen en ze ontdekken het leven onder de zee. Er zijn al meerdere verfilmingen geweest. De bekendste komt uit 1954 uit de hand van Richard Fleisher met Kirk Douglas in de hoofdrol. De film won twee Oscars (Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color and Best Effects, Special Effects).



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