ST Colin Trevorrow NOT directing Episode IX

Look people at the end of the day Episode 9 will NOT be a train wreck. At worst it will probably just be...ok...which honestly some people think TFA is. And if KK thinks Colin will do more harm than good they might let him go I mean granted the Boba Fett film wasn't probably filming but they did get rid of Josh Trank when he started doing his thing (Granted that was more extreme then anything Colin Trevarrow did) but honestly if things were that bad I think the studio would interfere.

 

What if The Book of Henry was such a terrible failure because Colin was too busy putting all of his time, thought, and effort into Episode IX..

 

I have no doubt that IX will be of an acceptable quality by the time it is released. But The Book of Henry is going to have ramifications of one kind or another. I can't overstate how crazy this film sounds, and not in a good way. Problems at a script level seem to have been compounded by tone deaf directorial choices.

 

He's not going anywhere, they're too far into pre-production and they HAVE to release the film in 2019. So they don't have enough time to find another director.

Best case scenario is that Rian Johnson or someone else writes a new draft of the script and Kathy Kennedy breathes down Colin's neck during filming watching him like a hawk. Colin Trevorrow and his writing partner, Derek Connolly, can NOT be given full creative control of this movie. Too much is at stake with this being potentially the final movie of the Skywalker saga.

 

Yeah they really need a real writer on Ep. 9. This is the culmination of the trilogy.

Kasdan or Johnson are needed to step in and re-write or ghost write and polish and improve whatever Trevorrow/Connolly do as a draft. I'll never have a different opinion on this.

 

Variety:

THR:

Austin Chronicle:

 

Wow. These are, uh... these are scathing.

 

The reviews are so bad and brutal I'm having second hand embarrassment for that cutie Jacob Tremblay. He deserves better material.

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Yeah, I wasn't joking when I said "trainwreck".

 

Some points need to be made and questions need to be asked.

First off, Colin did not write Book of Henry. So is the fault in the writer or director? Was there anything that Colin could do if the writing was terrible?

Next. to what extent did Colin have to rush things due to pre-production on Star Wars as well as any producing needed for JW2?

But, as we said, the story itself was not Colin's.

FWIT, Empireonline liked it. But yeah, if the overall reviews go on the current trajectory. it will be VERY interesting to see how this all plays out because you KNOW (as has already been done wiht some of the reviews) articles are going to bring up that this "horrible" film is made by the one who is closing the newest SW trilogy which started with a bang.

 

Well, at least it has a "flamboyant terribleness". (Owen Gleiberman, Variety). Not every filmmaker can achieve that.

 

One critic compared it to The Room. We're ****ed.

 

What the reviews seem to indicate--and I've spoken on Twitter with someone who has seen it, and confirms this--is that Trevorrow directs all of this completely straight, not ever tuning into the absurdity. That falls to Trevorrow. He seems to have very little instinct for tone.

 

Jesus H. Christ, that's abysmal on a level that I can't even fathom. That has to be hyperbole, there's no possible way it can be that incompetently bad.

 

I've been moaning about the selection of Trevorrow for over a year now. The only reason why they picked him was that Jurrasic World was a smash hit. But JW was a hit for all the wrong reasons. It has great effects, but does NOT hold up to repeat viewings, the movie is ludicrous in its choices. Compare JW to the original. The original has 15 minutes of Dinosaurs in it, who are downright primitive in the CGI rendition, yet it beats the living snot out of JW.

There are fifty better choices than Colin Trevorrow. Hopefully, they pull a Josh Trank and drop him for a more experienced filmmaker.

 

I am one with the Story Group and the Story Group is with me.
I am one with the Story Group and the Story Group is with me.
I am one with the Story Group and the Story Group is with me.
I am one with the Story Group and the Story Group is with me.

 

I don't know how to tell you this, but... the two guys who said that blew up shortly after.

Screw optimism, we're ******.

 

Screw ******, we need to get Patty Jenkins'd.

 

Jurassic World was an assembly-line simulacrum of Spielberg tropes, with none of the litheness and majesty that characterizes the master's best films. Side note: do you notice how the Struzan-esque theatrical poster for Book of Henry tries to conjure the wonderment of Spielberg's suburban fantasies of the 1970s and 80s?

Then let's hope the studio rents Trevorrow a house in New Orleans where his small dogs can unleash hell and cause $100,000 worth of damage.

 

See, I'm really frustrated with this. I want to root for him. I really do. I literally posted in support of him just the other day. He keeps saying the right things, but he's not following through and doing the right things.

 

Another scorching review, this time from Peter Bradshaw at The Guardian: