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Samuel L. Jackson Weighs In On Quentin Tarantino’s Anti-Marvel Comments – Deadline
Samuel L. Jackson on the comments made by Quentin Tarantino regarding actors that participate in Marvel films getting overshadowed by the characters they portray.
“It takes an actor to be those particular characters,” Jackson said on The View when asked about Tarantino’s remarks. “And the sign of movie stardom has always been, what, asses in seats? What are we talking about?”
The actor has worked with Tarantino in the past in movies like Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997) and Django Unchained (2012). Jackson is also part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, first appearing in Iron Man (1998) as Nick Fury. He has reprised his role numerous times after that in films like Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man Far From Home and next year on The Marvels.
“So, it’s not a big controversy for me to know that, well, apparently, these actors are movie stars,” he added. You know, Chadwick Boseman is Black Panther. You can’t refute that. And he’s a movie star.”
Tarantino made a controversial statement while making an appearance in the podcast 2 Bears, 1 Cave saying, “Part of the Marvel-ization of Hollywood is…you have all these actors who have become famous playing these characters. But they’re not movie stars. Right? Captain America is the star. Or Thor is the star. I mean, I’m not the first person to say that. I think that’s been said a zillion times…but it’s like, you know, it’s these franchise characters that become a star.”
Shang-Chi star Simu Liu was one of the Marvel actors that pushed back on Tarantino’s assessment.
Watch Jackson’s interview on The View in the video posted below.
A Resurfaced Clip Shows Anthony Mackie Agreeing With Quentin Tarantino on “The Death of the Movie Star”
In the midst of all the press Quentin Tarantino received over his comments on the decline of movie stars due to the “Marvel-ization of Hollywood”, a clip of Anthony Mackie sharing similar sentiments with Tarantino has surfaced.
Mackie, who stars as Sam Wilson, the one who Steve Rogers passes on his Captain America mantle to in the MCU, spoke about the state of the film industry at the 2018 London Comic-Con. Yahoo! Entertainment has resurfaced the clip that shows the longtime Marvel actor share a candid opinion on how superheroes like those from Marvel, have led to the “death of the movie star.”
In the interview, Macke can be heard saying, “There are no movie stars anymore. Like, Anthony Mackie isn’t a movie star. The Falcon is a movie star. And that’s what’s weird. It used to be with Tom Cruise and Will Smith and Stallone and Schwarzenegger, when you went to the movies, you went to see the Stallone movie. You went to see the Schwarzenegger movie. Now you go see: X-Men. So the evolution of the super hero has meant the death of the movie star.” He continued to add that nowadays many of the classic films like Goonies or The Thing, would not be made today because Hollywood now caters to “16-year-olds and China.” He continues in the clip, “It’s just a different time now. [Hollywood makes] movies for specific audiences as opposed to just making good movies. And that’s why people stopped going to the movies, because most of the movies suck.”
While this interview was from 2018, it appears that it still holds in today’s era of film.
In other entertainment news, watch Joseph Sikora, Terrence J. and T.I. in the new Fear trailer.
Simu Liu pushes back on Quentin Tarantino’s anti-Marvel comments
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Quentin Tarantino has made it clear that Marvel movies are not his cup of tea, but actor Simu Liu has kindly reminded the director that the films and the studio behind them have provided underrepresented communities a chance to be seen on the big screen unlike ever before.
“If the only gatekeepers to movie stardom came from Tarantino and Scorsese, I would never have had the opportunity to lead a $400 million plus movie,” Liu, the star of Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” wrote on Twitter. “I am in awe of their filmmaking genius. They are transcendent auteurs. But they don’t get to point their nose at me or anyone.”
He continued: “No movie studio is or ever will be perfect. But I’m proud to work with one that has made sustained efforts to improve diversity onscreen by creating heroes that empower and inspire people of all communities everywhere. I loved the ‘Golden Age’ too.. but it was white as hell.”
Liu seemingly made his comments on social media in response to a podcast interview Tarantino gave in which he criticized the “Marvel-ization of Hollywood.”
The films, Tarantino said on the “2 Bears, 1 Cave” podcast, are “the only things that seem to generate any kind of excitement amongst a fanbase or even for the studio making them.”
He also said that the actors who appear in those films are “not movie stars” because its “franchise characters that become a star.”
Tarantino clarified before making his comments that he didn’t “hate” Marvel movies but said that he didn’t “love them.”
This is not the first time the “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” director has had harsh words for the behemoth studio’s films – and he hasn’t been alone.
As Liu referenced, Martin Scorsese is among the other legendary filmmakers who have publicly taken issue with the box office dominance of Marvel movies.
Both filmmakers, meanwhile, have found themselves on the receiving end of criticism of their own – Scorsese for dismissing questions about the lack of female actors in his films and Tarantino for his lack of diversity in the cast of “Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood” and the violence against women often featured in his films.
“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” made more than $432 million worldwide during the course of its box office run. As of last year, director Destin Daniel Cretton was set to develop a sequel.
WR Quentin Johnston game-time decision for TCU at Texas
AUSTIN — TCU wide receiver Quentin Johnston looms as a game-time decision for the No. 4 Horned Frogs at No. 18 Texas on Saturday night, sources told ESPN.
Johnston injured his ankle on TCU’s first possession at Texas Tech last week. He was limited in practice this week, according to sources, as he didn’t take part in any of TCU’s practices until Thursday.
The expectation around the program remains that Johnston will warm up and play, but his status appears to be based on how he feels Saturday night. TCU (9-0) is a seven-point underdog against the Longhorns (6-3).
Johnston has emerged as one of the most explosive and dynamic wide receivers in the country, as he’d caught touchdown passes in four consecutive games prior to his early exit against Texas Tech. He has shot up to No. 20 on ESPN NFL draft analyst Mel Kiper’s Big Board, and he could end up rising as he’s Kiper’s fourth-ranked wide receiver.
Johnston has risen up draft boards in part because he fits the archetype of an NFL receiver at 6-foot-4, 215 pounds and still possesses top-end speed at that size. On the season, Johnston has 42 catches for 650 yards.
Johnston had one of the most impressive back-to-back performances of the season in October when he torched Kansas for 206 yards on 14 catches and grabbed eight balls for 180 yards against Oklahoma State the following week.
He earned first-team All-Big 12 honors in 2021 after compiling 634 receiving yards as a sophomore. Johnston is a former verbal commit to Texas, but he ended up flipping late to TCU in December of 2019 after a flurry of changes on the Texas coaching staff.
Quentin Tarantino Denies Kanye Claims He Stole ‘Django Unchained’ Plot – Deadline
Quentin Tarantino is setting the record straight on Kanye West’s claims that the director stole his idea for the plot for his Oscar-winning film Django Unchained.
West made the claim in an interview earlier this week with Piers Morgan, telling Morgan he pitched a similar slavery idea to Tarantino when the two met to talk about the rapper’s 2005 Gold Digger music video.
“There’s no truth to the idea that Kanye West came up with the idea of Django. And then he told it to me and I go, ‘Hey, wow, that’s a really great idea, let me take Kanye’s idea and make Django Unchained out of it.” OK that didn’t happen,” Tarantino told Kimmel.
Tarantino acknowledged, “He [West] did have an idea for a video, and I do think it was for the Gold Digger video, that he would be a slave. And the whole thing was the slave narrative, where he’s the slave, and he’s singing “Gold Digger.” And it was very funny. It was a really, really funny idea.”
Kimmel then questioned, “A funny slave video?”
‘It was meant to be ironic,” Tarantino clarified. “And it’s like a huge musical. I mean, like no expenses spared with him in this slave rag outfit, doing everything. And then that was also part of the part of the pushback on it.”
In the end, the music video for “Gold Digger” didn’t go with the idea West alleged he had. Django Unchained is a 2012 revisionist Western film about a freed slave (Foxx) who teams up with a bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to free his wife from a slavery.
You can watch Tarantino’s interview with Kimmel above.
From Batgirl to Quentin Tarantino’s lost comedy: 9 movies that were scrapped during or after production
It goes without saying that making any film is a pretty mammoth undertaking.
You’ve got to assemble a team of actors, a crew, a script, a director – and you need to make sure the money’s even there to make it in the first place.
Sometimes, even if all the different components manage to fall into place, something still can go disastrously wrong.
The history books are littered with projects that never managed to make it into production. But what about the ones that made it as far as filming before being buried?
This might be the result of a terrible accident, a financial snafu, or a change of management at a studio.
On 2 August 2022, it was revealed that the planned DC Comics adaptation Batgirl was being pulled from release – despite having already been filmed in its entirety.
The blockbuster starred Leslie Grace, and would have featured a return from Michael Keaton in the role of Batman.
Here are 11 movies that were scrapped during or after production.
Batgirl
Despite already being completed and costing $90m (£73.7m) to make, Batgirl was shelved this year, just months before its scheduled release.
The DC film starred Leslie Grace in the lead role of Barbara Gordon.
“The decision to not release Batgirl reflects our leadership’s strategic shift as it relates to the DC universe and HBO Max,” a Warner Bros Picture spokesperson said. “Leslie Grace is an incredibly talented actor and this decision is not a reflection of her performance.”
Batgirl has fallen victim to a changing regime at Warner Bros. It was originally made as a HBO Max release, but was reportedly set to be released theatrically.
Leslie Grace in ‘Batgirl’
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My Best Friend’s Birthday
Quentin Tarantino’s first film was not in fact Reservoir Dogs, but My Best Friend’s Birthday, an amateurish black-and-white comedy which starred Tarantino and his old video store associate Craig Hamann.
The film was finished in 1987, five years before Reservoir Dogs hit screens.
While it would not have been given a wide release anyway, the film was damaged in a fire at the development lab, destroying half the footage.
The film’s full script and a compilation made from the surviving footage are available on the internet for Tarantino obsessives to explore.
The Day the Clown Cried
Jerry Lewis’s legendary lost film saw the comedian play German circus clown who is arrested and sent to a concentration camp after ridiculing Hitler.
The few people who saw early cuts of the film were damning in their assessments; The Simpsons star Harry Shearer once wrote: “This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is.”
Copyright disputes involving producer Nathan Wachsberger have meant that the film never saw the light of day.
Who Killed Bambi?
Revered film critic Roger Ebert teamed up with Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren to write this punk-rock spin on Hard Day’s Night.
Russ Meyer was attached to direct, with the Sex Pistols themselves starring. However, filming was abandoned just a few days into production.
Various disputed reasons for the film’s collapse have been posited by those involved, with objections from Fox studios, a personal intervention from 20th Century Fox board member Grace Kelly, and – perhaps most likely – financing struggles all variously attributed to the film’s abandonment.
Number 13
Alfred Hitchcock’s first film was 1922’s Number 13, a socio-political drama. Clare Greet and Ernest Thesiger were attached to star as a husband and wife couple.
Filming was abandoned midway through, however, after financing fell through.
Alfred Hitchcock pictured in 1926
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Gore
In 2017, a biopic of the late writer Gore Vidal was cancelled by Netflix after its star, Kevin Spacey, was accused of sexual misconduct.
The film was already in post-production. Michael Stuhlbarg, who co-starred as Vidal’s longtime partner, Howard Austen, later addressed the film’s abandonment in an interview.
“I understand what’s going on,” he said. “Honestly, we all have some hope that perhaps… over time there will be a chance for people to see it in the light in which it was meant to be seen.”
Bogart Slept Here
Mike Nichols was two weeks into directing this 1975 film, based on a script by Neil Simon, when production was shut down for good.
The reason reportedly concerned the film’s star, Robert De Niro, whose Method-inflected style of acting failed to gel with Simon’s dialogue.
Bogart Slept Here was later reworked and filmed as The Goodbye Girl two years later.
10 Things I Hate About life
Few cancelled films have proved as controversial as 10 Things I Hate About Life, a spiritual sequel to Gil Junger’s 1999 hit 10 Things I Hate About You.
The film, which focuses on two characters who meet while attempting to take their own lives and fall in love, was to star Evan Rachel Wood and Thomas McDonell.
Two months of filming took place in 2012, but had to be abandoned due to Wood’s pregnancy and management changes at the film’s production company.
Though production had been meant to resume in 2013, it never did. Producers have sued Wood for breach of contract, while Wood’s lawyer has alleged that she was never adequately paid for work already completed.
Evan Rachel Wood was set to star in the now-abandoned project
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I, Claudius
1937 Roman epic I, Claudius remains one of the most infamous unfinished films ever (almost) made.
Filming was called off partway through after one of the stars, Merle Oberon, was injured in a car accident. Some historians and commentators have speculated that the injury was used as a pretext to excuse fierce creative divisions between producer Alexander Korda and the film’s lead, Charles Laughton.
The film became the subject of the 1965 documentary The Epic That Never Was.
Quentin Grimes shows out as Knicks open summer league with win
LAS VEGAS — Quentin Grimes’ goal was to “dominate” summer league play.
It took him some time Friday night, but the Knicks’ young guard followed through in his team’s opening game.
After missing eight consecutive shots, Grimes took off in the second half, leading the Knicks to a 101-88 victory over the defending Las Vegas Summer League champion Warriors at the Thomas and Mack Center.
With team president Leon Rose, owner James Dolan coach Tom Thibodeau and teammates Julius Randle, Immanuel Quickley, Cam Reddish and Obi Toppin in attendance, Grimes finished with 24 points, eight assists, four rebounds, two steals and just one turnover in 32 quality minutes.
“I feel like I kind of dominated or almost got close in the second half,” Grimes said. “Just try to dominate offensively, defensively by being in the right positions. It’s not always about making shots.”
While his perimeter jumper was off for most of the night — the former first-round pick out of Houston went 4-for-14 from 3-point range — the 6-foot-4 Grimes kept on shooting.
Even after hitting two in a row from distance early in the third quarter to get going, Grimes didn’t settle for long jumpers. He attacked the basket and finished through contract, something he has worked on this offseason to complement his 3-point shot. He hit seven of his last 12 shots, and also was a strong distributor on this night.
“Hopefully I’ll have a bigger role as a playmaker [this year] and also stick to my roots as a defensive player and as a shooter,” he said.
This is a crucial offseason for Grimes, the best Knicks rookie last year, whose progress was set back by a knee injury late in the year. Thibodeau has raved about his defense, which may give Grimes a shot at a starting role in the backcourt next year, alongside newcomer Jalen Brunson.
He is hoping to make a statement over the next 10 days in Las Vegas. With that in mind, Friday night was a strong start for him.
Feron Hunt added 17 points, Jericho Sims had 16 points, 10 rebounds and two blocks and Miles McBride chipped in 14 points and seven assists in the win.
Moses Moody, a lottery pick a year ago, led all scorers with 34 points for the Warriors.
Quentin Tarantino in Talks to Direct FX’s ‘Justified’ Revival
Quentin Tarantino is in early talks to helm one or two episodes of “Justified: City of Primeval,” the limited series revival of the FX drama starring Timothy Olyphant, Variety has confirmed.
The “Justified” revival was ordered in January, with Olyphant set to reprise his role as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. The new series is inspired by Elmore Leonard’s novel “City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit.” Leonard created the character of Givens, who is featured in several of his books including “Fire in the Hole,” which “Justified” was based upon.
Tarantino and Olyphant worked together on the director’s most recent film, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” with Olyphant playing James Stacy. Tarantino is also a known fan of Leonard’s work, having adapted his novel “Rum Punch” into his 1997 film “Jackie Brown” and optioning a few more of the author’s titles.
According to the show’s logline, “Justified: City Primeval” “picks up with Givens eight years after he left Kentucky behind. He now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 14-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind.”
Dave Andron and Michael Dinner will serve as writers, showrunners and executive producers on the show, with Dinner tapped for directing duties. Olyphant is executive producing as well, along with “Justified” creator Graham Yost, Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly, Peter Leonard, Taylor Elmore, and Chris Provenzano, with Elmore and Provenzano also writing for the show. Walter Mosley is consulting producer, while V.J. Boyd, Eisa Davis and Ingrid Escajeda are writers. The series will be produced by Sony Pictures Television and FX Productions.
Deadline Hollywood was the first to report the news.
Michael Schneider contributed to this report.
Knicks’ Quentin Grimes adored by coach as ‘fierce competitor’
Before the Knicks acquired Cam Reddish from the Hawks for Kevin Knox and a protected first-round pick on Thursday, Atlanta reportedly asked for Quentin Grimes.
But given the way coach Tom Thibodeau spoke glowingly about Grimes on Friday, perhaps it should be no surprise that the Knicks were not willing to part with the rookie.
“I love Grimes. I love Grimes,” Thibodeau said Friday after practice. “He’s a fierce competitor, can shoot the ball, can guard multiple positions, and he’s only going to get better. You look at his shot profile, it was great in college. It’s been great in the pros. So that’s an important part of winning. Then to see the way he guards people, his competitiveness, that stands out.”
Grimes has played in 24 games this season, including two starts, while averaging 4.9 points and shooting 38.4 percent from 3-point range in 13.7 minutes. But the Knicks’ recent COVID-19 and injury issues have opened the door for him to see more of an opportunity, and he has taken advantage.
In his past 10 games — during which the Knicks have gone 7-3 — Grimes is averaging 6.7 points, 2.1 rebounds and one steal in 21.1 minutes.
While Reddish won’t play immediately because of a sprained ankle, it remains to be seen whether his arrival will force somebody out of the rotation.
Thibodeau admitted that would likely happen at least when Kemba Walker and Derrick Rose return from injuries, but did say he liked how the current rotation was playing.
“The group that’s playing now is playing well,” Thibodeau said. “So we want to keep that going.”
Walker, who has missed the past seven games with left-knee soreness, is “doubtful” to play against the Hawks on Saturday, Thibodeau said.
Before he addressed the acquisition of Reddish, Thibodeau made sure he gave props to Knox, whose disappointing Knicks tenure ended after three-plus seasons.
“Kevin did a good job for us,” Thibodeau said. “I have great respect for him and his professionalism, the way he handled himself and of course we wish him well moving on.”
Asked if he had heard from any former Duke teammates since the Reddish trade went down — Zion Williamson notably joined them to form a Big 3 for the 2018-2019 Blue Devils — RJ Barrett said with a grin, “We’ll keep that in-house,” possibly wanting to avoid any whiff of tampering.