David Gordon Green and Danny McBride to write/direct new HALLOWEEN

One day before my birthday. Great, I always get the short end of the stick.

DGG has the opposite career of what most directors want. wtf happened to this dude

>>79285565
Jesus stop rebooting franchises. I like Danny but this is so retarded

>>79285614
>DGG has the opposite career of what most directors want.
This is being said about him quite often, but I don't think he career path is actually unique.

A lot of American independent directors come to directing studio comedies and dramas after the first few movies.

What exactly makes him different from Richard Linklater directing "School of Rock" and "Bad News Bears", or Miguel Arteta directing "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day", or Michael Dowse directing "Take Me Home Tonight", or Tom McCarthy directing "The Cobbler", etc.?

>>79285565
Halloween sucks. It always sucked and will never not suck.
I'd rather see a new Leprechaun movie.

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Another "new" film from an old franchise.

Great.

halloween meets this is the end and pineapple express lol

>danny mcbride

I'm legitimately curious

>>79287758
Not that anon, and I don't know much about most of those directors other than Linklater, but from looking at their filmography, their early indie films seem to be at least a bit comedy. Their later comedies do look like like shitty generic studio comedies but its not that much of a departure.

With DGD he made critically acclaimed quiet small town dramas, like George Washington and All the Real Girls. Little to no hint of comedy in them, then suddenly he's making Judd Apatow type comedies, it seems a bit more extreme to me.

>>79288622
I see what you mean, DGG's departure was indeed an extreme one, he went from a literal Terrence Malick protege (he produced one of his movies), to a literal Judd Apaptow protege.

Still, my point is it is not really an opposite of an American director's career trajectory, more like an extreme version of a quite typical career path.

I don't think any director actually wants to go from studio pictures to no budget indie fare. Someone like Hal Hartley is a loser, career-wise, despite what the other anon says.

>>79288816
I get your point. I wasn't aware of most of those directors careers you listed and I'm guessing others aren't too. I guess indie directors gotta eat too, it's gotta be hard putting in all that work for little to show, better to make a studio comedy and get some cash out of it.