Pipe Dream of mine

allanb49

When i have made my fortune and can afford to be crazy i'd like to do this,


Get a script that has potential,

Give it to an established director but give a modest budget,

Have the same script again

Give it to an up and coming director and a big budget

See which one comes out better or what would be different in there views,

Would the older director be set in his/her ways and not offer anything new or would the experience over the years give him the edge,

Equally would the new guy have a fresh approach to film making and make something unique and ground breaking?

Any opinions?

paulosham

Michael Mann with small budget = L.A. Takedown

Michael Mann with large budget = Heat

Sad Professor

Another example (also involving Mann) is Manhunter, which was later remade by Brett Ratner as Red Dragon. It demonstrates quite well how two directors can have totally different approaches to the same material.

allanb49

The only examples i could think of was

Superman 2 and Exorcist the beginning.

Birneybau

Any Hollywood remake?

Some good, most terrible.

allanb49

ah not a remake,

two original scripts at the same time it would have to be,

or a different interpretation of the same like Manhunter mentioned above,

Using the same source material but different at the same time,


Stuff like what would one director keep, what would another get rid of, would they change this to that, small little differences that could greatly impact a movie

Odaise Gaelach

Just reading your hypothetical scenario I keep thinking of the two kinds of Psycho - the 1960 version by Afred Hitchcock with Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins, and the 1998 version by Gus Van Sant with Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche.

It's not exactly what you were thinking of, but it does kinda fit: Hitchcock as the established director with a small budget, and Van Sant as the up-and-coming director with a huge budget. The source material is the same. Heck, the remake is almost shot-for-shot the same as the original.

But if you see the original Shower Scene - I still find it really tense and scary, especially just as the bathroom door is opening behind Marion Crane. The Shower Scene in the remake has absolutely no tension or suspense, and it's quite amazing at how dull it is.

don ramo

allanb49 wrote: »

When i have made my fortune and can afford to be crazy i'd like to do this,


Get a script that has potential,

Give it to an established director but give a modest budget,

Have the same script again

Give it to an up and coming director and a big budget

See which one comes out better or what would be different in there views,

Would the older director be set in his/her ways and not offer anything new or would the experience over the years give him the edge,

Equally would the new guy have a fresh approach to film making and make something unique and ground breaking?

Any opinions?

you should watch the swedish version of the girl with the dragon tattoo and then go see the david fincher version next month,

i know fincher is a great director and had money, but it should be an interesting comparison,

allanb49

What if both movies where developed in tandem, neither director knowing what the other was doing so nothing to influence the other.

Like the two timelines in back to the future II