And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.
The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it.
Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres.
Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.
There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.
Audiences can be leery of sequels; the studios make a hit, they see dollar signs, and they make a cheap rip-off.
The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
I don't think action alone is enough to sustain a film franchise. There are tons of action movies out there that come and go and people don't care about.
Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.
The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.