Fanboys protest "Fanboys," or: Just how badly can one fuck up a movie?
Fanboys protest "Fanboys," or: Just how badly can one fuck up a movie?
Feb 21Ain’t It Cool has word of a fan-organized boycott of the Weinstein Company flick Fanboys, once a tender, wacky tale of a dying Star Wars fan who breaks into Skywalker Ranch to see Episode I, now some kind of idiotic nerd-mocking comedy, according to reports:
Now, after delaying the release of the movie for over a year, the Weinstein Company (the studio who owns it) has decided to recut the entire movie so that it mocks Star Wars fans. They’re planning to remove the cancer plotline and have the fans break into Skywalker Ranch for no reason at all – just because they’re “Death Star Dorks” (from the Weinstein Co. website). They plan to rip the heart out of the movie and turn it into a mindless comedy that ridicules Star Wars fans, instead of celebrating them.
This level of filmmaking idiocy is staggering. If you are making a movie about a specific segment of fans, and those fans are so upset by your movie that they are boycotting ALL of the movies you release, then you are doing something WRONG.
I don’t know if this is a true problem with misediting the film, or if this is all just idle speculation gotten out of hand, but DAMN. So very stupid. Either fix the damned movie, or at the very least, get some flunkie in the marketing department to jump on this fire until it’s put out.
