I’m not a Thor fan, but I am a comic movie fan… and recently I’ve also become a big Matthew Vaughn fan (seriously folks, if you haven’t seen Stardust, and you still have to the opportunity to see it where you live… GET OUT AND SEE IT. One of the best films of the year), so I find myself more than interested in the Thor movie project.
For those of you who may not know (not that I’m an expert on it myself) quite often the process of making a movie goes something like this: First you get the script, and then once you have the script, the producer with give it to a Production Manager who will basically go over the script and tell you how much it will cost to make it into a movie as it is.
Well, Vaughn and his writer got finished with their script and sent it into the studio. The good news is that the studio LOVED the script. The bad news is that they told him as it is, the movie would cost $300 million to make in its current incarnation… and then proceeded to ask him to do another draft in such a way that it would take about $150 million out of it.
It’s yet another chapter in the “Creative vs Business” aspect of the movie world. But wow… I can only image what sort of stuff Vaughn put in that script that would have required $300 million to make it!
As a side note, I’m actually surprised the studio is giving this movie $150 million. That’s a LOT of money… as a matter of fact, that’s the same budget Transformers had… and Transformers are a much more marketable name. I think this speaks a lot to Marvels’ commitment to this movie.
Source: Cinematical
