‘Pig’ Director Michael Sarnoski Sells Out

Well, that didn’t take long.

I was actually speaking to a friend about Michael Sarnoski’s “Pig” last month. I told him, “watch Sarnoski sell out with his next movie.” I just knew it, mostly due to the fact that I thought “Pig” was a tad too on-the-nose for its own good. An overpraised film that wasn’t as gripping as it thought it was, not as nuanced as it purported to be, and mostly held together by a stellar Nicolas Cage performance.

With that being said, Sarnoski has indeed decided to sell out by choosing his next film to be “A Quiet Place: Part III.” Not much is known about the plot of the threequels, beyond it being a spinoff, based on an idea from John Krasinski, who directed and starred in the first two films.

If he were the promising auteur that many critics claimed he would be then this wouldn’t have been the path chosen. These are tough times right now in the industry, even for critically-acclaimed newbie filmmakers, and if you truly want to make the big bucks then, much like Sarnoski just did, you need to sell your soul to corporate product

Going forward it's going to be the norm for a promising young filmmaker to get sucked into the IP machine before they can put together more than two personal projects.