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Current Talk '13 I / Re: Can DS possibly come back from the dead one more time after diasterous Depp Film
« on: May 14, 2013, 08:40:54 PM »after some of the scathing criticism they've received I very much doubt either burton or depp would want to dip their toes into this particular well again...
An interesting thing there, though, is that both claim not to pay attention to reviews. But then, who knows if they're being completely truthful about that? And if they aren't, while it's true that many reviews savaged the film, there were also many that were very complimentary of it. And that's not just when it comes to the ones that had snippets quoted in the TV ads or in the DVD/Blu-ray promotional materials. There were many others (including ones like the review in Entertainment Weekly), so if they did get wind of any of those complimentary reviews, one would think they were pleased by them. (Though speaking of those quoted reviews, it's quite fascinating that some still have yet to show up on that certain Web site that shall continue to be unnamed here. Makes one wonder just what their criteria is to pick and choose which reviews to include on their site and which ones not to? And obviously if those reviews haven't shown up yet, they're not about to at this point.)
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and even under more positive circumstances visually and creatively perhaps they've gotten it "out of their systems".
Quite possibly. Even before the film opened Burton was making remarks about how he wasn't planning on a sequel. And after the film came out and ended as it does, he still said that despite the ending, a sequel didn't really enter his mind. He looked at the ending more as a tribute to DS' soap roots in which the story is continuing. But who knows?
The one thing I do suspect, though, is that if there were to ever be a sequel, whether rightly or wrongly, Seth Grahame-Smith most likely wouldn't be asked to write it. It's fascinating how he was the anointed darling of the media back in 2010 and 2011, popping up all over the place, but ever since the savage reviews (far worse than DS' worst) and true box office failure of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, he seems to have virtually disappeared (we don't even hear much about the potential Beetlejuice sequel, though it's supposedly still a go). But then, if I was Grahame-Smith, I suppose I would be keeping a fairly low profile too.