Screenwriter David S Goyer has enjoyed many successes in his career, penning screenplays and scripts for successful movies such as Man of Steel, The Dark Knight Trilogy, the Blade trilogy and Dark City. Unfortunately, he has also written some less favorable movies such as Unborn, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Jumper and Crow II: City of Angels.
Yet with his most recent, inflammatory comments, courtesy of CBR, one gets a feeling that Goyer is about to become very unpopular with fan communites, more so maybe than 2012's most wanted Damon Lindelof. Let us know what you think of the screenwriters comments!
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"you’re dealing with an incredibly vocal but incredibly tiny sort of group. That’s a mistake that I think a lot of sometimes networks and movie studios make is sort of listening too much to them. I mean, it’s important to listen to the fan chatter but you’re really talking about a tiny, tiny, tiny portion of your audience that may not be representative of what your mainstream audience actually thinks or feels."
"I’m paraphrasing Steve Jobs, it’s like you don’t give the audience or the consumer what they want, you give them what they don’t even know they want. I mean, being involved in some of these comic book movies and stuff like that, people say, well, this is what they should do. And trust me, if we had just done exactly that I don’t think the audiences would have been completely happy. I mean that’s not to say that filmmakers can’t misfire, but if you try to just do what you think the fan community wants you’ll drive yourself crazy and you won’t actually write anything."
There you have it! We are the vocal minority and as such our opinion, to Goyer at least, means diddly squat and should be ignored. Though some of his points have warrant, his attitude towards fan communities, whom have contributed to most of the money he has earnt, is quite frankly and honestly disrespectful.
What do you guys think of Goyers comments?
