Kermode/Mayo - Andrew Stanton interview

[@diegomorales8616]

He merely said, "I can't control the box office or reviews. I can, however, control how I make it." That seems like the healthiest way to view it.

[@GORMLESSwonder]

I love it when the interviewees get prickly.

[@SamuelDaram]

Thank you 'badhead' for uploading this Andrew Stanton interview with Kermode & Mayo. Stanton is an amazing interviewee.

[@butt01]

Nolan made Memento with 3M. It's a masterpiece!!!!

[@Cloudrim]

If Tommy Wiseau can manage to put a film together for 5 million dollars(!!), I think anyone can.

[@KitKlarenberg]

Maybe he meant Back To The Future 3, he was originally talking about trilogies generally containing one rubbish part.

[@Phoneybeetlemaniacxs]

No hes directeding th sequel to finding nemo

[@ULYSSES-31]

He didn't say that though, he said "HE wouldn't know what to do with $5 million", big difference.

[@captain07234]

He couldn't make John Carter for $5 million?!? Wasn't $5 million the entire budget for Duncan Jones' Moon?

[@121jakethesnake]

He's saying that he personally wouldn't know how to make a movie with that little money and that's understandable since he's only directed high-budgeted flicks.

[@Goochbot]

Or Star Wars...Or even Stantons previous film WALL-E, which we know nobody saw.

[@kisbie]

@PhoenixWright101 Now that Pixar's halo has slipped a bit, people have started having a pop at that "we make movies for ourselves" mantra. Yet before, when they were churning out hit after hit, it was being praised as the proper attitude.

[@handsomebrick]

Also, on the list of fifty highest grossing movies ever, sci fi movies are number 1, 4, 9, 20, 27, 28, 29, 31, 34, 35, 37, 38, 42, and 45, and most of the rest are similar things like fantasy, superheroes, and computer animated films. Plus, the number 1 grossing film by a mile is Avatar, which is practically the same thing as John Carter (they're both science fiction fantasy films about a soldier from Earth who becomes a hero on another planet).

[@paulklein8048]

I had hopes for a Pixar man turned live action director since Brad Bird did so well with Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.

[@butt01]

Nope. Read an interview of Nolan himself stating it was 3M.

[@PhoenixWright101]

@RockBottomRiser21 I think Stanton has been getting a hard time from the industry press/websites about the budget, the title change, his inexperience as a live action director and so on for the past few months. Can't blame the guy for being a bit fed up with those sorts of questions. I think he handled it with good humour though.

[@frenchcoupon3391]

Don’t care about the haters. I adore this movie. Great piece of art, M. Stanton!

[@SirMykus]

It appears to be different everywhere I look, ha. IMDb states that it had a $5M budget, whereas Wikipedia states that it had a $9M budget. But since the interview you read came from Nolan himself I would assume that $3M is correct :-)

[@butt01]

I'll try to find the interview but I'm sure of that.IMDB is no reliable at all. I hate that website.

[@Ihavealife100]

Back to the Future 3 is great, probably better than 2.

[@RockBottomRiser21]

You could make 250 versions of "The Raid" for the amount that John Carter cost, just saying.

[@henman09]

Which one Kermode, Mayo or Stanton ?

[@geoffcbassett]

@sodoffb Emphasis on the "Think". They think they don't.

[@agmor1]

Saw the review. If Kermode had all these problems, why didn't he bring them up then, instead of spewing such bile (Mayo was asleep, apparently).

[@farneyblakeley]

yeah, when he mentioned Steve Jobs I was like "oh, he's one of those people". Nothing wrong with that ;)

[@Chopperwocky]

BOURNE TRILOGY IS THE BEST TRILOGY EVER MADE KERMODE!

[@andrewbeeable]

Or Star Wars!

[@josefvickers]

@dunnededunnedunne I just thought 2 was so well done and really complimented the first film well with the storyline. It was 3 that I never liked as much.

[@badhead]

@josefvickers i disagree with him too. I like that film

[@redrhinoclan]

Andrew Stanton, if disclosing that you've made a Sci fi picture or adding the title "of Mars" puts people off going to the movie, explain the success of Star Wars… what put people of going to the movie was how quickly it became apparent that it sucked.

[@andrewbeeable]

Well, it looks like he will have to see what he can do with 5 million after the John Carter debacle. HaHaHaHaHaHa. HaHaHaHa

[@agmor1]

Hang on, this interview is a lot of blowing up Stanton's ass for WALL-E and Toy Story, and then in the review Kermode accuses the director of arrogance. What's going on?

[@ReelTommyB]

Dollars trilogy!!!

[@moeezS]

@39thejust1 Kermode has read the books, and his review is based on how boring the movie was. Then he went on about Stanton's bullshit reasons for the title changes and artistic integrity.

[@RockBottomRiser21]

Bit of a chippy podcast this week.

[@TheDensley7]

@dunnededunnedunne Touchy.

[@user-ik4kh9lt6d]

Well this aged badly.

[@MrWarners14]

I liked Back to the Future Part II but it wasn't as great as the first one.

[@SirMykus]

$9 million.

[@andrewbeeable]

I bet his plans have changed since the box-office performance of "John Carter". HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!

[@JimONeill]

He wouldn't know what to do with 5 million? Wow talk about obnoxious.

[@josefvickers]

Back to the Future II is rubbish?!?!?!?!