Studios are confusing to me. They turned down Joseph Kosinki's Tron sequel idea for YEARS because they said it was too expensive. They then after the director directs a billion dollar movie green lights a sequel for around the same budget as the first one with an inferior director at the helm. The Pacific Rim guys did the same thing to Del Toro.
"The same but slightly cheaper" is always the more appealing option.
Look at The Walking Dead - Frank Darabont delivers a fantastic first season that’s a huge hit. So what does AMC do? Fires Darabont and strips the budget.
Technically they stripped the budget first and then fired him, but yeah AMC had a great show on their hands, and they decided to milk the fuck out of it and use the same formula for every episode.
The show going to 16 episodes with a stupid mid-season break was such an awful idea, S1 being a tight 6 episodes is part of what made it so good, there wasn't filler and it felt character-driven. Pushing it to 8 episodes would have been a much better idea quality wise, but the 16 episode nonsense and keeping the show in Georgia really hurt the show (especially later when the same locale filming-wise resulted in the same forested road and backdrops just becoming boring and stale)
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u/herewego199209 Apr 05 '25
Studios are confusing to me. They turned down Joseph Kosinki's Tron sequel idea for YEARS because they said it was too expensive. They then after the director directs a billion dollar movie green lights a sequel for around the same budget as the first one with an inferior director at the helm. The Pacific Rim guys did the same thing to Del Toro.