Andy Muschietti seems to believe a studio is still willing to give him $200M to make a movie. That’s never again going to happen.
Coming off “The Flash,” Muschietti’s career hit a major speed bump, and it’s come to the point where even the DCU film he was promised, “The Brave and the Bold,” has now been “postponed.” Don’t tell him that, he still believes he will make that film, and he’s already hinting about another expensive project that’s been percolating for years now.
Muschietti believes his long-in-development “Shadow of the Colossus” might still happen. The filmmaker revived hopes for a film adaptation of the classic Fumito Ueda video game during an interview with Radio TU. Not just that, he’s asking a studio to invest $200M to make it.
I want them to give me 200 million, but this is another factor to take into account […] There's a script that I really like, but there are factors that have to do not with your hobby and desire to make it, but with how popular an intellectual property like this is.
‘Shadow of Colossus’ takes place in a fantasy setting and follows Wander, a young man who enters an isolated and abandoned region of the realm seeking the power to revive a girl named Mono.
It was in 2009 that ‘Shogun’ writer Justin Marks had been tapped to work on the project. While Chronicle’s Josh Trank was set to direct, Muschietti was eventually hired to replace Trank. That was in 2014, and we hadn’t gotten an update until today’s comments from Muschietti.
The Argentine-born Muschietti, who broke out with “Mama,” is the filmmaker behind “It” and “It: Chapter Two.” He was then promoted to helm box-office flop “The Flash” which resulted in close to $200M in losses for Warner Bros. His latest project is the recently shot ‘It’ Max prequel series “Welcome to Derry,” set for 2025 release.
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