Risky movies that worked?
09-16-14, 04:24 PM
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Risky movies that worked?
so i was thinking about Liam Neeson and how his career took a different path/another path with Taken. that had to be a risky move putting him into a movie like that and have it spawn a rather successful franchise and bolstered his career in a whole other genre.
perhaps even Guardians of the Galaxy was considered risky for Marvel or the original Raimi Spider-Man for that matter?
what are some of the other risky movies that maybe made a risky cast move or director or was just a risky movie in general to put out, but just worked and were successful?
perhaps even Guardians of the Galaxy was considered risky for Marvel or the original Raimi Spider-Man for that matter?
what are some of the other risky movies that maybe made a risky cast move or director or was just a risky movie in general to put out, but just worked and were successful?
09-16-14, 04:27 PM
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09-16-14, 04:28 PM
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Blindly handing 300 million dollars to an untested director for The Lord of the Rings trilogy is about as ballsy as it gets.
09-16-14, 05:03 PM
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Airplane! (1980)
09-16-14, 05:09 PM
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Risky for the actors or the studio?
Hasn't Neesan said that he didn't expect Taken to do well, or that anyone would see him in it? Hardly risky, for either party.
Was Transformers risky? They spent a lot of money on that movie, and basically changed the looks of the major characters, while riding on a wave of 80's nostalgia.
Hasn't Neesan said that he didn't expect Taken to do well, or that anyone would see him in it? Hardly risky, for either party.
Was Transformers risky? They spent a lot of money on that movie, and basically changed the looks of the major characters, while riding on a wave of 80's nostalgia.
09-16-14, 05:32 PM
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I wouldn't call the original Spider-Man risky, I remember quite a bit of excitement leading up to the release. I would however call Batman Begins a risk. People were pretty down on the Batman franchise, and this new one made radical changes to the Batmobile, had a villain not everyone was familiar with, and didn't even have him suit up until halfway through the movie.
09-16-14, 05:33 PM
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the first X-Men movie? prior to that there really wasn't a tremendously successful movie based on a comic book. it sort of set the bar for all future movies to come
09-16-14, 06:42 PM
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2001?
09-16-14, 06:43 PM
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09-16-14, 07:01 PM
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What X-Men ($296,339,527) did was not suck after a wave of shitty super hero flicks (Batman & Robin and Steel as examples). I would say it was the first one that wasn't too "comic book-y" but Blade did that 2 years before.
09-16-14, 08:23 PM
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Lolita
Life Is Beautiful
I also want to say Django Unchained, although the aspect I consider most risky is something I've never heard anyone comment on much on
Life Is Beautiful
I also want to say Django Unchained, although the aspect I consider most risky is something I've never heard anyone comment on much on
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09-16-14, 08:57 PM
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Passion of the Christ comes to mind.
The Machinist simply because Bale could have died during filming due to his diet.
I'm convinced that had it had a different director Jaws would have been a disaster, or a joke, given the water shoots.
Avatar was pretty risky given the 3D stuff but paid off.
The LOTR trilogy is number one to me given the budget and shooting of three films together with an "unproven big-budget" director. Of course, I'm not entirely shocked New Line eventually went belly up as they got bigger and bigger afterwards.
The Machinist simply because Bale could have died during filming due to his diet.
I'm convinced that had it had a different director Jaws would have been a disaster, or a joke, given the water shoots.
Avatar was pretty risky given the 3D stuff but paid off.
The LOTR trilogy is number one to me given the budget and shooting of three films together with an "unproven big-budget" director. Of course, I'm not entirely shocked New Line eventually went belly up as they got bigger and bigger afterwards.
