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[WanMan]

Have you heard of him before? Have you seen any of his directorial work? No, and No? You would be just like me.

So, who the h3ll thought it was acceptable for him to be assigned the remakes of The Thing and Army of the Dead? Seriously, I am knocked down trying to figure out how someone is assigned work to remake fairly well known genre movies and expect this individual to not only remake the films, but to overcome the obvious obstacles.

Making the fans of the original movies happy, or happier, making money off of his effort to justify the remake with him in the director's chair, and simply proving himself by giving him what seems like un-earned work assignments.

Does Hollywood hate the previous versions of the movies? I think so!

[garyfritz]

Looks like he's produced quite a few movies, but never directed.

The one that always gets me is Peter Jackson. Here's a guy whose prior resumé includes mostly low-budget slasher flicks and a few horror movies. And somehow he gets handed one of the biggest stories in existence? To make not one, but THREE movies simultaneously!? What in God's name were they thinking??

I mean, movie studios NEVER take risks. To give a huge story to 1) an inexperienced director, 2) with no big "guaranteed" marquee names (though they did have decent names like Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Orlando Bloom, etc), 3) and sign off on all 3 movies at once -- that's unheard-of.

Lucky for them they hit the jackpot, bigtime. I'm glad their risk-taking paid off for them. I just wonder how it even happened.

[perisoft]