In a latest interview, John McTiernan says he has “3 possibly 4 pieces that I would like to do” as a brand new motion film.
John McTiernan is an motion legend. He’s the director who gave us Predator, Die Exhausting, The Hunt for Purple October, Final Motion Hero, and extra—so many classics, which makes it such a disgrace we haven’t had a film from the person in practically 25 years.
Whereas talking with Forbes, McTeirnan mentioned he does have a number of concepts for an additional motion film. “I have 3 possibly 4 pieces that I would like to do, I don’t know whether I will,” he mentioned. “Maybe I’ll have enough strength and energy. Or not.” If and when these motion pictures do get made, McTeirnan mentioned they’d be financed independently as a result of “there’s no studio left.“
“Why can’t you tell a difference between a Toyota, or a Volvo or a Peugeot, or a Ford or something manufactured in Korea? Because they’re all the same marketing,” McTeirnan mentioned, evaluating the film business to the automotive business. “All of them make precisely the identical vehicles, they’re equivalent. As a result of none of them are automotive makers, they’re within the cash enterprise. They assure to deliver essentially the most a refund to the house owners that they work for. That’s precisely the identical scenario within the movie business.“
McTiernan’s final two motion pictures, Rollerball (2002) and Primary (2003), have been crucial and industrial failures. “I gave up working on bad movies, the last two films I made were terrible. I hated working on them,” McTiernan mentioned. “I knew they have been dangerous, I used to be employed to repair them, after which they wouldn’t let me shoot that. They usually wouldn’t let me shoot what I had mounted. They’d simply used me to inform the studios that I had mounted it for them. Anyway, I made a decision I wasn’t going to repair another person’s dangerous film.“
McTiernan additionally spent years in a authorized battle after he was charged with offering a false assertion to an FBI investigator relating to his hiring of personal investigator Anthony Pellicano to illegally wiretap Charles Roven, the producer of Rollerball. He finally served time in jail and declared chapter.
Forbes requested McTiernan if he had thought of making a film out of all of the tales he gathered throughout his time in jail. “It’s funny, I hadn’t thought about it as a movie but as a book that I will publish eventually. Stories of the guys I met, it changed my political outlet completely,” McTiernan mentioned. “Jail motion pictures usually are not enjoyable, not for anybody, actually. It’s very very tough to make an entertaining film out of that. So I’ve by no means been actually drawn to it.“
A number of years in the past, McTiernan was set to direct Taut Ceci Foxtrot, a sci-fi motion movie starring Uma Thurman and Laurence Fishburne. It was about “a group of rebels who set out to kill the oligarchs and military thugs that terrorized a war-torn planet in the remote Tau Ceti solar system.” Sadly, it didn’t occur.
