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Paramount vs Twisted Pictures/Lionsgate Day 2: Greutert Being ‘Tortured’
Poor Kevin Greutert, you’ve got to feel for the guy. I understand business is business and contracts are contracts, but when you’re using a guy just to get back at a studio that’s just wrong and lacks in ethics. I also understand that there’s a lot of money riding on this whole feud between Paramount and Twisted Pictures/Lionsgate, but seriously folks, when is enough money enough? After six Saw films, these guys will never have to work another day in their life (if they don’t want to), while Greutert is just starting his filmmaking career. In my opinion, forcing Greutert back to direct Saw VII 3D instead of Paranormal Activity 2 – just so the two films won’t open against each other on October 22 – is like watching the producers of the Saw franchise dive into a charity fountain and swim for quarters. Am I wrong? Please, tell me if I am. Anyways, Greutert published a blog earlier today expressing his pain in the situation. It’s shocking to see something so public before a film goes into production — but wouldn’t you be pissed? Read what he had to say below.
Get up to date on the situation by reading here and here:
Removed from Kevin Greutert’s blog
“I just had the task of telling my 83 year old mother that no, I’m not going to be allowed to direct the movie we were all so excited about when my family last got together, and that I’m being forced to leave town before getting a chance to see her again. Yes, I’ll be filming people getting tortured YET AGAIN. So we’ll have to put off me making a film she can actually watch for another year. I’m not making this shit up.”
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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