District 9 Director Says Big-Budget Movies Could "Strangle Out" New Ideas
Movie director Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Chappie) has commented on the movie landscape these days, saying there is a «complete saturation» of known IP dominating the box office that is threatening the existence of lower-budget productions. Hollywood's attraction to big-budget films from known franchise could «strangle out» new ideas, the director said.
Speaking to Vice, Blomkamp said movies with budgets in the range of $40 million-$60 million, like his 2015 movie Chappie--may not be around for much longer.
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«The films like Chappie--between $40 and $60 million dollar film where there's enough money to really put some imagery on the screen but it isn't $120 million or $200 million, that zone of film with IP that doesn't exist, which is a new idea, that feels like it's a dying breed,» he said. «I don't think that's a good thing at all.»
Blomkamp, who is now working with game developer Gunzilla on a battle royale title called Off The Grid, said people often forget that Star Wars was at one time seen as a groundbreaking production.
«For all the Star Wars movies that are out there today, it's almost like people have forgotten that when George Lucas made it in 1977, it was like no one had ever seen anything like it before because he was striving to do something that was a bit different,» Blomkamp said. «There is a complete saturation now of just bankable, known IP [today] that will absolutely strangle out new ideas. I don't think it's a good thing.»
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