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Am I wrong to find it hard to believe they haven't filmed any of Part II? They were just sitting there on-location and going "nope, not gonna shoot any Part II

by imbnwa 5y ago

Am I wrong to find it hard to believe they haven't filmed any of Part II? They were just sitting there on-location and going "nope, not gonna shoot any Part II material"? They've been talking up this ultimatum of "see it in theatre or else" for months, and I'm supposed to believe the studio would actually sit here and re-negotiate/re-budget cast/crew/locations? What am I missing? Edit: For the record, I really liked Part I. How many people here watched it and were expecting to here people's mental dialogue jump on the sound track at a few points?

GekkePrutser 5y ago
I think there's a lot of work to be done before you can start shooting scenes. Screenplay, set design etc. Since the project wasn't officially greenlit they would have had to be creative to pay for all that. I doubt it would have happened. But I'm not in the film industry so perhaps I'm wrong!
atoav 5y ago
As someone in films myself I suspect they shot a ton of material they can reuse in part II. Maybe Villeneuve even came with the argument ("Part II is basically half in the box as we shot aome of the stuff already"). However it is hard to say if they really didn't have it planned from the start. Both is possible and likely. Villeneuve's film definitly was a risk from a film producers standpoint. The director is not known for compromises and the material he worked with is not known to automatically lend itself to be filmed easily — historically these have been the key ingridients for catastrophic productions. So given the risk I wouldn't be surprised if they really didn't plan for part II from the start. But my feeling is that they already decided for part II to exist before the movie hit the box office (which is why the movie feels like it needs a part II)
- imbnwa 5y ago
  Thanks for the explanation, I'd assumed execs have access to the material and can tell what they have on their hands as it comes along (further assuming that this is the whole point of their job aside from telling if a screenplay is any good).

by imbnwa 5y ago

GekkePrutser 5y ago

I think there's a lot of work to be done before you can start shooting scenes. Screenplay, set design etc. Since the project wasn't officially greenlit they would have had to be creative to pay for all that. I doubt it would have happened. But I'm not in the film industry so perhaps I'm wrong!

atoav 5y ago

As someone in films myself I suspect they shot a ton of material they can reuse in part II. Maybe Villeneuve even came with the argument ("Part II is basically half in the box as we shot aome of the stuff already"). However it is hard to say if they really didn't have it planned from the start. Both is possible and likely. Villeneuve's film definitly was a risk from a film producers standpoint. The director is not known for compromises and the material he worked with is not known to automatically lend itself to be filmed easily — historically these have been the key ingridients for catastrophic productions. So given the risk I wouldn't be surprised if they really didn't plan for part II from the start. But my feeling is that they already decided for part II to exist before the movie hit the box office (which is why the movie feels like it needs a part II)

imbnwa 5y ago
Thanks for the explanation, I'd assumed execs have access to the material and can tell what they have on their hands as it comes along (further assuming that this is the whole point of their job aside from telling if a screenplay is any good).