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· As you may have heard, the Marcus Nispel-directed remake of Conan the Barbarian didn’t slay many comers at the box office last weekend; the much-hyped splatterfest opened in fourth place with barely over $10 million in ticket sales. Sean Hood (Halloween: Resurrection) was one of four credited screenwriters on the film, and on Tuesday he took to the Q&A site Quora to answer the question: “What’s it like to have your film flop at the box office?” Apparently, it’s a lot like a political campaign, and there’s always plenty of blame to spread around:
Unfortunately, the work I do as a script doctor is hard to defend if the movie flops. I know that those who have read my Conan shooting script agree that much of the work I did on story and character never made it to screen. I myself know that given the difficulties of rewriting a script in the middle of production, I made vast improvements on the draft that came before me. But its still much like doing great work on a losing campaign. All anyone in the general public knows, all anyone in the industry remembers, is the flop. A loss is a loss.
Translation: Hood made the best lemonade he could out of the Conan lemons! Click through to Quora to read…
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