WHEN CREATORS GET CRANKY
A GROWING WAVE OF FILMMAKERS AND SHOWRUNNERS ARE TAKING REBOOTS OF THEIR WORK TO TASK
Paul Schrader.
IT’S GETTING CATTY out there. As Hollywood continues to sequelise and rehash, some filmmakers are ditching diplomacy in favour of airing their grievances. “Eric Draven’s having a bad hair day,” Alex Proyas, director of 1994’s The Crow, wrote on Facebook as photos hit of Rupert Sanders’ upcoming remake, starring a mulleted Bill Skarsgård. “Next reboot thanks.” In the comments he went on. “I guess he’s supposed to be a bad mofo with all those tats and skulls on his jacket,” Proyas miaowed, following that with a crying-laughing emoji, the true refuge of the damned.