Joseph Kosinski Eyes ‘Archangel’ To Helm

COMMENTS (18)

• This might be interesting. Screw Pitt’s PG-13 World War Z. They’re zombies. They gotta be R.

  Comment by Ren — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 1:16pm PDT  Reply to this post

• After the mega failure that was Tron Legacy how the fuck does Kosinki land another high profile sci-fi gig?

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 1:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • I am beginning to wonder if deadline has purposefully planted trolls to enable more pageviews/debate.

    Hey “Anonymous” the film did well, it was not a Superman Returns disaster and they are planning on a sequel. The video is selling well also so not sure what you are griping about.

    Also, B.O. Success/Failure does not completely determine one’s fate in Hollywood if they are just getting their track record started. Regardless of how TRON L’s numbers are viewed, he made a solid film, cast it well and turned what could have easily been a ridiculous sequel into a solid flick.

    Comment by Hmm — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 1:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Mega-failure? You have no idea what you’re talking about.

    Comment by tom — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 1:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • May we all have a $400M grossing “failure”.

    Comment by Ren — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 1:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Failure? It was a critically acclaimed, box office hit.

    Comment by American — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 1:46pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Tron Legacy was arguably the best film of 2010. It made hundreds of millions for Disney. I wish they were making another one right now! #woohootronleagcy

  Comment by duh — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 1:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • I guess Tron: Legacy was thus the ONLY film you saw in 2010.

    Kudos for not falling asleep during it though.

    Comment by Esquire — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 2:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Wow, the TRON:L apologists show up right away… While $400 mil worldwide is nothing to sneeze at, there’s little doubt that Disney had hoped it would do significantly more. After all, it cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $180 million BEFORE the massive P+A commitment. You can’t really claim $400 mil a success considering the dough they poured into this supposed franchise rebooter. (And to “Duh”, I think YOU might be the only person who would argue that it was the best film of 2010.)

  Comment by Galen — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 2:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • And this is Joe Kosinski’s problem how exactly? Disney could have anticipated $1 billion returns, it doesn’t mean they’re going to get it. Joe delivered. No one said he did a bad job directing Tron Legacy. If someone else directed it I doubt it would have made more money. It made a solid $400 million, pretty good for a first time director. Any other problems with “money” is for Disney to decide, I couldn’t care less what Disney “expected” to make.

    This opinion doesn’t make me a “Disney apologist,” it makes me someone who lives in reality.

    Comment by The idiot savant — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 4:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • The movie underperformed but it was still profitable so certainly not a mega failure

    Comment by American — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 4:27pm PDT  Reply to this post

• tron underperformed based on the amount they put into it… 250M and four years of production with who knows how many hundreds of millions in P&A? They were in effect marketing the film during their production for four years, trailers, teasers, clips, comicons, etc.

  Comment by fredd — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 2:19pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Kosinski doesn’t do budgets for under 150 million. He’s earned these big budget productions through film after film, slogging through the much and murk of Hollywood to get to where he is today. Been a long, arduous road for Joe, but good to see a guy whose put in years upon years of the hardest labor finally get to the place he deserves to be. God knows he’s really earned it with all the films he’s made.

  Did I tell you he earned it?

  Comment by serenity — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 2:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

• He’s great as “Jim.” Didn’t know he was now directing.

  Comment by torgo — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 2:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Archangel? A movie about a secret agency that goes after aliens living among us? I liked this movie better when it was called Men In Black

  Comment by Angel — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 4:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• A pretty vocal segment of “fandom” piled on the movie but they ignored its consciously PG ambitions, among other things. Honestly the venom for this movie was absurd – it earned more worldwide than Abrams’ Trek, even if it’s not as easy to embrace or revisit for some people.

  If you didn’t like it move along but stop pretending like no one did or that it has no merit in it whatsoever. Kosinski has clear cinematic talents I think it’s worth seeing what he might do with other scripts.

  Or you can greenlight Fast12 and hire a blender I guess.

  Comment by Joe — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 5:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Well-said.

    Comment by Spacelamb — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 9:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Kosinski is a commercial director. A very good commercial director. But not the right choice for Tron 2. Steven Lisberger is the true visionary and should’ve been asked to return to the directors chair. What a disappointment.

  Comment by TRON2_WAS_AWFUL — Tuesday April 26, 2011 @ 1:06pm PDT  Reply to this post