Davideverona wrote: ↑November 20th, 2018, 11:40 pmAlphagaia wrote: ↑November 20th, 2018, 9:07 pm
Is this in response to my comment?
It also states below the go ahead has not been given by Aykroyd and the Ramis estate, but Reitman is close?
No, this was in reference to my idea about the writers. Your comment was right.
Reading from the mails one can see that was Sony who wasn't playing a clean game. They were plotting against Reitman and considering him a poor old past his prime director clinging to his past glories. They wanted to exclude him entirely from the franchise he contribute to create.
This isn't entirely true either.
Sony wanted to branch out as the old crew couldn't get a script going, but they didn't want Ivan to be excluded at all, as they wanted him to produce, but not direct. Yes this also because of his age and the fact his last few movies weren't the best, but mainly because their scripts went nowhere. They gave him Ghost Corps so he (and Sony) had more control over the franchise (and Bill, Dan and Ramis lost their veto). He even went shopping for capable directors (and approached Feig for an old script, which no one wanted to do).
After this Amy contacted Feig if he was interested in doing his own script and when Feig stated he didn't want to be a flunky with no creative power they approached Reitman to see if he was ok with this. They had lunch and Reitman agreed, though he never liked Feig wanting producerrights as well, he was ok with Feig doing his own take.
He did became angry twice because of leaks to the press that jumped the gun on sensitive information, like Dan, but it was never Sony idea to exclude him purposely.
So Sony kept Reitman in the loop, he gave his blessing to Feig to do something else besides the original script, with Reitman agreeing to chipping in with tips and wanting nods to the originals but having no veto as he had been convinced Feig was up to the task, and something was finally coming of the ground after all those years. Had he said no, it would not have gone through. This was a very important lunch.
Now, the end result you either like or don't, and I agree it was a looong, rocky road with hard decisions to get there, but Sony did not abandon Reitman, and the veto thing had to change and others needed a crack at a story as it was in stasis for so long and Bill shot everything down. If anything to be mad at, it would be him.
For Ivan.