Bryan Fuller did it again!

[M.A.C.O.]

Considering how much money and total control streaming services give to the Russo Brothers, Zach Snyder and Dwayne Johnson to make crap over and over again, why not let Fuller have his way with an 8-10 episode series? Would still be a lot cheaper than a $200 million movie disaster.

I imagine Fuller is able to finesse his way into all these shows because he has his own production company. You pitch a movie or show to the studio, and say you’ll foot the bill for producing. The studios line up to collect their dividends.

Take a look at the usual suspects and you can quickly see how most movies are just vanity projects for people with their own production assets. Snyder (Army of the Dead and Rebel Moon), the Rock (Fast and Furious, Black Adam and other things), Vin Diesel (Fast and Furious and Riddick), Tom Cruise (Mission Impossible and Top Gun), Christopher Nolan, Tyler Perry (the Madea series and producing all of Oprah’s movies), Tarantino (produces all his own films) and JJ Abrams (has Bad Robot).

Fuller crashing out on most of these shows in the middle of their first seasons is dumb. They’ve already spent his money.

I thought they did and the result was the first season of American Gods?

Problem is he wanted more production money per episode for season two of American Gods, and they had already balked at the cost of season 1.

Fuller is a known budget breaker. He broke the budget on Hannibal as well. I think he was pushing for multi-million dollar per episode budget, on shows with recurring sets, locations and characters.

Like we saw with Benioff and Weiss on GOT. The budget was going to things the audience was never going to see. Extras on set, fully realized rooms/sets the camera was never going to go into and set piece props that would only be used once.

 

[JD]

I'm starting to think Fuller must have some serious issues, either control issues that make him impossible to work with or personality issues if the accusations mentioned earlier in the thread are true.

 

[evilchumlee]

I do think it's crazy that he keeps getting hired.

 

[JD]

I know I would definitely be hesitant to work with him if he approached me with a concept for a new show.

 

[Rich Watson]

In-depth story on the collapse of the Friday the 13th TV series.

Charlize Theron was set to play Pamela Voorhees!

Ten million dollars an episode! (For what?)

Inside the Drowning of ‘Crystal Lake’: How Unpaid Writers, Inexperienced Execs and Questionable Bookkeeping Undid the ‘Friday the 13th’ Series

TheWrap spoke to more than a half-dozen insiders intimately involved in the planned Friday the 13th series Crystal Lake, A24's first foray into IP.

www.thewrap.com

 

[Alexander Corrino]

A24 declined to comment to TheWrap for this story. But a source close to A24 said the studio has “made television with complicated people, who we love. That’s the background of the company – people with strong visions.”

I think this right there is why Fuller keeps getting hired. He probably DOES sound quirky but also cool and enthusiastic when he talks about what he wants to do with a show.

 

[JD]

Yeah, I guess that makes sense. And with the enthusiasm they probably think he'll stick around this time.... until he doesn't.

 

[Aragorn]

I think this right there is why Fuller keeps getting hired. He probably DOES sound quirky but also cool and enthusiastic when he talks about what he wants to do with a show.

And then the budget spirals out of control and he leaves. And then it happens again. And again.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Ten million dollars an episode! (For what?)

Inside the Drowning of ‘Crystal Lake’: How Unpaid Writers, Inexperienced Execs and Questionable Bookkeeping Undid the ‘Friday the 13th’ Series

TheWrap spoke to more than a half-dozen insiders intimately involved in the planned Friday the 13th series Crystal Lake, A24's first foray into IP.

www.thewrap.com

Someone in another forum made the point that $10 million for one episode is almost more money than the entire budgets of the Friday the 13th movies combined.

 

[Jayson1]

He is a artist who wants his shows to reflect his vision. Doesn't like to compromise, I suppose. You can bet the show might run more smoothly with him gone but it likely won't be as good as it would be if he was doing it.

 

[Skywalker]

Maybe not (I think that's certainly up for debate), but at least it would get made.

Compromise is part of working in show business. If you're not on the level of Scorsese, or Nolan, or Spielberg, etc., you're going to have to deal with it if you want to get anything done.

 

[JD]

He is a artist who wants his shows to reflect his vision. Doesn't like to compromise, I suppose. You can bet the show might run more smoothly with him gone but it likely won't be as good as it would be if he was doing it.

No necessarily, at least for me. Discovery was at it's worst when they were closest to the stuff he was involved with, it got better as we got farther away from his contributions.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

No necessarily, at least for me. Discovery was at it's worst when they were closest to the stuff he was involved with, it got better as we got farther away from his contributions.

There were a lot of contributing factors that made the first couple of seasons of Discovery bumpy and he was just one of them. I'm not saying he wasn't part of the problem, but he wasn't inherently the main issue either.

 

[JD]

Oh yeah, it probably wasn't all him, but that was just how it originally felt to me.

 

[M.A.C.O.]

In-depth story on the collapse of the Friday the 13th TV series.

Charlize Theron was set to play Pamela Voorhees!

Ten million dollars an episode! (For what?)

Inside the Drowning of ‘Crystal Lake’: How Unpaid Writers, Inexperienced Execs and Questionable Bookkeeping Undid the ‘Friday the 13th’ Series

TheWrap spoke to more than a half-dozen insiders intimately involved in the planned Friday the 13th series Crystal Lake, A24's first foray into IP.

www.thewrap.com

$10 million and episode indeed.

Bryan Fuller the budget breaker never fails.