In Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin's heavily hyped new movie, Gangster Squad, there is a scene which involves a shoot out at a movie theatre. With the movie scheduled to be released the first week of September, studio heads think, and rightfully so, that audiences will not be ready to see something like that and have ordered the scene deleted and a new ending shot. All of that is going to take time so the movie is now scheduled to be released in January of next year. I bet it gets pushed back even a bit more than that.
it kinda seemed impossible for them to rewrite some scenes & shoot them with the movie coming out in 6 weeks. i can't wait for the new year though b/c this movie looks good, love me some ryan gosling
ReplyDeleteIs a shooting in movie theatres a common scene to put in movies/tv shows? I feel like I have heard of at least 3 films or music videos that all had to be pulled after last week bc they all showed shootings in movie theatres. I think one was a Lil Wayne music video, if i remember correctly.
ReplyDeleteThis is actually something thoughtful from Hollywood? It's nice to hear.
ReplyDeleteIt will probably be released in February with all the other loser movies.
ReplyDeleteIs thi like how they removed the Twin Towers from the Spider-Man movie, pretending they didn't exiist and underestimating the audience?
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me of how the film "Neighborhood Watch" was rescheduled and named after the Trayvon Martin shooting, when the whole phrase "neighborhood watch" and scenes in which volunteers blow away intruders seemed insensitive. Now it's "The Watch."
ReplyDeleteI've been looking forward to this movie, so I'm disappointed about the delay, but very glad the scene will be removed.
ReplyDeleteEven seeing TDKR after the incident was very haunting. I saw a child in the theater and could not help but tear up.
Gosling needs to release more music. Check out dead mans bones!
ReplyDeleteJust looking at that picture is creepy.
ReplyDeleteSusanB I know! I was just popping over to say that. Gives me the jeebs.
ReplyDeleteI guess YouTube will have to pull the Sid Vicious video version of Sinatra's "My Way". That one ends with a theater shooting.
ReplyDeleteDidn't they delay Fight Club too?
ReplyDeleteyeah it reminds me, of you know....predictive programming. how they just play us all as fools! alright i'll shut up now...*cowers away*
ReplyDeleteSaw a 10am showing of Batman following the shooting early that morning. The trailer for this movie was playing...
ReplyDeleteI think movie theater mayhem might actually be a narrative...The whole "shouting fire in a movie theater" thing has something to do with it. An American president was assassinated in a theater...The idea that when you are in a theater your mind is on something besides what's going on around you...and the idea that there are so many people in such a small area. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and a mad stampede to get out if something went awry.
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