The paradox is that if the film proposal is good enough, the studio execs will end up clawing their eyes out at the sight of the eldritch, non-Euclidean storyboards and thus be unable to sign off on any budgets.
Yes, because we all know how Tom Cruise guarantees box office success these days.
@Fruit Cup: Poltergeist, Lady In White, Rosemary's Baby, Watcher In The Woods (a Disney film!), Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (the 1978 version), The Gate, 1408 (PG-13, underrated), Return To Oz (seriously), The Day After (among many other TV movies from the late 70s and 80s), Jaws, Psycho, Carnival Of Souls, When A Stranger Calls (1976), Wait Until Dark, any number of classic Hammer monster movies...
Well, PG-13 didn't exist until 1984, so a lot of those would have just been either PG or R.
"Psycho" was actually just "approved" on its release (since it was pre-1970) and it was retro-rated, years later, to an "R" (but this was still before PG-13 existed).
Please wait...
and remember to be decent to everyone all of the time.
I really, really hope this gets made. Dammit.
@Fruit Cup: Poltergeist, Lady In White, Rosemary's Baby, Watcher In The Woods (a Disney film!), Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (the 1978 version), The Gate, 1408 (PG-13, underrated), Return To Oz (seriously), The Day After (among many other TV movies from the late 70s and 80s), Jaws, Psycho, Carnival Of Souls, When A Stranger Calls (1976), Wait Until Dark, any number of classic Hammer monster movies...
"Psycho" was actually just "approved" on its release (since it was pre-1970) and it was retro-rated, years later, to an "R" (but this was still before PG-13 existed).