Hime wrote:Tafdolphin wrote:Peter Crisp wrote:Tomous wrote:Mafro wrote:Whats with Annihilation getting a theatre release in the US but it's only on Netflix here in the UK and it's going up on Monday? Seems like a weird deal.
The film was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on February 23, 2018.
Due to a poorly received test screening, David Ellison, a financier at Paramount, became concerned that the film was "too intellectual" and "too complicated", and demanded changes to make it appeal to a wider audience, including making Portman's character more sympathetic and changing the ending. Producer Scott Rudin sided with Garland in his desire to not alter the film, defending the film and refusing to take notes. Rudin had final cut.
On December 7, 2017, it was announced that due to the clashes between Rudin and Ellison, and the shift in Paramount's leadership, a deal was struck with Netflix handling international distribution. According to this deal, Paramount will handle the US and China release, while Netflix will begin streaming the film in other territories 17 days later
Wow, a film maker with the balls to go up against a studio and keep a story as he intended it to be.
I was going to go to the cinema to see this and I'll certainly watch it on Netflix
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It's going to be interesting to see if this film is as complicated as the test screeners thought as it will be a refreshing change to see a challenging sci-fi film.
I just finished reading the books which are utterly bizarre but very very good. From what I've seen of the reviews, the film is faithful to that aspect of the books and is very good with it.
strawberry float test screenings. I don't know what sort of morons they hire for these things but from past experiences they're nearly always wrong. Fingers crossed the same is true for Deadpool.
Did the story actually go anywhere in third book? I read them ages ago and remember falling off hard on part three.
Book three did feel more like a contractually obligated wrap-up than a book borne of intellectual desire but if you want to be spoiled here's the precis:
It's strongly implied The Crawler is a biomechanical construct from an alien civilisation, made to reconstruct that civilisation should it be destroyed. It was destroyed, but whatever machine The Crawler was originally a part of was spread across space and the part that landed on Earth was trying, ineffectually, the terraform the Earth into its home planet. The writing, and the Border itself, was coming from the human it infected upon arriving, the Lighthouse keeper Saul Evans, who was still a part of The Crawler and was fighting from inside to control it.
The original biologist turned into a gargantuan Chthulu-esque abomination after staving off The Brightness for so long by subjecting herself to constant pain (before giving up after the owl her husband was turned into dies) and at the end of the book it's implied Area X has overrun the planet.
Oh, and Control gets turned into a marmot. C'est la vie.Apparently the film is based primarily on the first book which I remember really liking so I'm happy with that. Also, I heard on a podcast that the person at Paramount who didn't like Annihilation was the maker of Geostorm.
I've just finished it and will write my thoughts over in the Last Film thread, but it's almost an In Name Only adaptation. It's very good, but it's not a direct translation.
Also, the guy who had issues with it was indeed the GeoStorm guy. Turns out he's the 34 year old billionaire son of the Oracle CEO and he also greenlit and produced Terminator Genisys. Who says money can't buy taste?
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