Remy Danton
All Star
With “Suicide Squad” going into its second weekend, it’s safe to say that August hasn’t been particularly fun one for Warner Bros. Sure, the super-anti-hero movie is doing big numbers, but both fans and critics were largely unforgiving, and woes of the behind-the-scenes wrangling and reshoots are taking on legendary status (there were apparently multiple versions of the film, some of them, drastically different). There’s been a lot of anger, and one one former employee is putting the studio on blast.
Over at Pajiba, “Gracie Law” has penned an open letter to her alleged former employer Warner Bros. and the studio’s head Kevin Tsujihara. Essentially, it boils down to this: Tsujihara has consistently failed to deliver, not just on the DC Films front, but in general, shepherding a string of flops or underperforming movies (“Jupiter Ascending,” “Get Hard,” “Hot Pursuit,” “Max,” “Vacation,” “Pan,” “Point Break“) that has seen no one of any real consequence — such as himself, or Zack Snyder — be punished for their bungles. Meanwhile, those further down the ladder are being laid off (the company laid off 10% of its work force in 2014). Here’s a couple of excerpts:
I kept holding off on doing anything with [this open letter] because of one title: Suicide Squad. Zack Snyder’s Dawn of Justice was a fiasco, but here comes this plucky little dark adventure about antiheroes. I love David Ayer. I love Harley Quinn. I love Will Smith. Put the letter in a drawer. The ship isn’t sinking anymore. Everything is fine. There’s no way this movie is bad.
And here we are. I got back from my screening and dusted this sucker off. You, your executive team, and the vision of your ‘extraordinary storytellers’ that resulted in the loss of around one thousand jobs seem intent on crashing the ship into as much sh*t as you can find in the ocean by making inane decisions over and over again.
Zack Snyder is not delivering. Is he being punished? Assistants who were doing fantastic work certainly were. People in finance and in marketing and in IT. They had no say in a movie called Batman V Superman only having 8 minutes of Batman fighting Superman in it, that ends because their moms have the same name. Snyder is a producer on every DC movie. He is still directing Justice League. He is being rewarded with more opportunity to get more people laid off. I’m assuming you yourself haven’t been financially affected in any real way. You and your studio are the biggest lesson about life one can learn: The top screws up and the bottom suffers. Peter Jackson phones it in and a marketing supervisor has to figure out a plan B for house payments.
However, the kicker here involves “Wonder Woman.” With everyone flipping for the trailer presented this summer at San Diego Comic Con, according the writer of this letter, the intel they’re hearing is that it’s another problem movie in the making:
What are you even doing? I wish to God you were forced to live out of a car until you made a #1 movie of the year. Maybe Wonder Woman wouldn’t be such a mess. Don’t try to hide behind the great trailer. People inside are already confirming it’s another mess. It is almost impressive how you keep rewarding the same producers and executives for making the same mistakes, over and over.
Again, this is from an alleged former employee, but it’s certainly no secret that Tsujihara has been at the helm of some pretty bumpy years for the studio. And indeed, one wonders how long that reign can last. Maybe “Wonder Woman” will be the breaking point? We’ll find out June 2, 2017.
An Open Letter To Warner Bros CEO Kevin Tsujihara About Layoffs, Zack Snyder, and Donuts
Over at Pajiba, “Gracie Law” has penned an open letter to her alleged former employer Warner Bros. and the studio’s head Kevin Tsujihara. Essentially, it boils down to this: Tsujihara has consistently failed to deliver, not just on the DC Films front, but in general, shepherding a string of flops or underperforming movies (“Jupiter Ascending,” “Get Hard,” “Hot Pursuit,” “Max,” “Vacation,” “Pan,” “Point Break“) that has seen no one of any real consequence — such as himself, or Zack Snyder — be punished for their bungles. Meanwhile, those further down the ladder are being laid off (the company laid off 10% of its work force in 2014). Here’s a couple of excerpts:
I kept holding off on doing anything with [this open letter] because of one title: Suicide Squad. Zack Snyder’s Dawn of Justice was a fiasco, but here comes this plucky little dark adventure about antiheroes. I love David Ayer. I love Harley Quinn. I love Will Smith. Put the letter in a drawer. The ship isn’t sinking anymore. Everything is fine. There’s no way this movie is bad.
And here we are. I got back from my screening and dusted this sucker off. You, your executive team, and the vision of your ‘extraordinary storytellers’ that resulted in the loss of around one thousand jobs seem intent on crashing the ship into as much sh*t as you can find in the ocean by making inane decisions over and over again.
Zack Snyder is not delivering. Is he being punished? Assistants who were doing fantastic work certainly were. People in finance and in marketing and in IT. They had no say in a movie called Batman V Superman only having 8 minutes of Batman fighting Superman in it, that ends because their moms have the same name. Snyder is a producer on every DC movie. He is still directing Justice League. He is being rewarded with more opportunity to get more people laid off. I’m assuming you yourself haven’t been financially affected in any real way. You and your studio are the biggest lesson about life one can learn: The top screws up and the bottom suffers. Peter Jackson phones it in and a marketing supervisor has to figure out a plan B for house payments.
However, the kicker here involves “Wonder Woman.” With everyone flipping for the trailer presented this summer at San Diego Comic Con, according the writer of this letter, the intel they’re hearing is that it’s another problem movie in the making:
What are you even doing? I wish to God you were forced to live out of a car until you made a #1 movie of the year. Maybe Wonder Woman wouldn’t be such a mess. Don’t try to hide behind the great trailer. People inside are already confirming it’s another mess. It is almost impressive how you keep rewarding the same producers and executives for making the same mistakes, over and over.
Again, this is from an alleged former employee, but it’s certainly no secret that Tsujihara has been at the helm of some pretty bumpy years for the studio. And indeed, one wonders how long that reign can last. Maybe “Wonder Woman” will be the breaking point? We’ll find out June 2, 2017.
An Open Letter To Warner Bros CEO Kevin Tsujihara About Layoffs, Zack Snyder, and Donuts
with these delusional ass D.C./W.B. stan's
