“It would take a long discussion with those three wonderful performers who I adore,” McG says.
“I was very happy to seeElizabeth Bankstake the helm and do what she did, which was fun.
There always seems to be chatter about that.
Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz, and Drew Barrymore in ‘Charlie’s Angels’.Columbia Pictures/Newsmakers/Getty Images
I mean, I love the Tim Burton Batman movies, I love the new Batman movies.
But, “Who knows?
“I love the three of them so much.
They put me on the map.
They looked out for me when I was a first-time filmmaker.
And obviously, those are three performers where God broke the mold.
They don’t make ‘em like that.
I mean, those are three special ones.”
The director’s zany ideas (what’s a McG film without adancesequence, really?
), he says, proved to be a little too much for Sony.
“The movie was insane at the time,” McG says.
“[Former Sony executive] Amy Pascal would come down and go, ‘What?
Am I supposed to laugh?
Am I supposed to take it seriously?
Why is there so much color?
Why are they always dancing?
Why is there so much music?’
I said, ‘Amy, you got to trust me.
It’s all going to come together in the end.’
And to her credit, she trusted me, yes, but by the skin of my teeth.”
I would in a heartbeat.
The answer is an emphatic yes.
I will always say yes.”
It’s not a Hollywood fairytale.”
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