Last week, Production Weekly reported that Robert Downey Jr. might be the man behind the curtain for Disney’s The Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz the Great and Powerful, and that Sam Mendes might be overseeing it all. Now a new contender has risen for the director’s chair: Adam Shankman.
According to The LA Times, Shankman wants the job bad. Really bad. He wants it so much that he dumped Bob the Musical (also set up at Disney) in the hopes of scoring the gig. Granted, a musical about a kind man who develops psychic song powers sounded a bit iffy anyway, but this is a big gesture, particularly since he still has to sell himself to Disney’s Rich Ross and Sean Bailey. Does dumping a pre-production project in the hopes of scoring a new one endear yourself to studio bosses? Is it possible Ross and Bailey asked him to? Did he have to give up that thing he loved the most? Because that would be quite the trial by fire.
Is Shankman a better fit than Mendes? Probably. He’s certainly handled more whimsical material, and knows his way around high fantasy. Mendes seems an odd pick for the world of L. Frank Baum, even if it is a version filtered through Mitchell Kapner’s keyboard.
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That man's tan troubles me.
sorry, but mendes' turds are probably more watchable than shankman's best film
Yeah, I don't know where your head is at if you think bad Mendes is somehow worse than good Shankman. Fuck Shankman.
Shankman will find some way to add LXG dancers to this project… too bad he's an egotistical jerkhole.
I wish Disney would dump Shankman into a tank of boiling oil.
Look I'm all for getting hot ladies contributing on the site but someone should show her the ropes on who we love and hate around here. The almost indifference to blackhole of talent Shankman in this article was just jarring. A quick primer madam: Anyone whose filmography includes two '00 Steve Martin movies and anything with the name "Zac Effron" in the title gets at least four references to feces or the anus applied to either their work output or directly to their person. Like so: Shankman, ever the hemorrhaging anal sore of directorial capacity has prematurely pinched the loaf of his current project, dropping it directly into the toilet in favor of eagerly draping his gaping anal curtains of mediocrity around another project currently under the watchful eye of the generally more talented Sam Mendes. See everyone hates American Beauty around here so you have to take a small jab at Sam Mendes with a subtly belittling modifier while you're at it. You'll get the hang of it kiddo. ps: Did the rape jokes ever get old growing up?
And so the fanboy sexism begins.
Shanking in Oz? No surprise to me…
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I used to loathe Mendes for American Beauty but everything that's happened to him afterwards x's that out. Plus Shankman is cinematic herpes.
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