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I thought this was just going to be lighthearted joking about what can go wrong mixed with finger pointing... but it was incredibly heartfelt. I learned a lot and can see why he is a lauded teacher
@@TheRealDarrylStrawberry it’s relatable at least. Who wouldn’t take the money.., I’m sure most people would make a sequel to Battlefield Earth if they thought it meant they won’t have to suffer through working a regular job
This guy is awesome. I've never accepted the excuse that "well that's just how the industry works" and this dude just sealed that rejection. Just have integrity!
The hardest thing in life is to recover from hitting rock bottom. The ability to bounce back is the thing everyone ought to be taught since we're born.
Gotta tell you...I just went thru the same experience. 15 years at a miserable job where I made a ton of money. My wife finally put the brakes on when she saw me mentally and physically abused. If it wasn't for her, I'd probable die from exhaustion.....The most true thing he said is "you don't live forever" !!!
He seems like such an honest, good-hearted guy. It's really strong of him to admit his own mistakes and weaknesses in leading up to taking the project.
I took Corey's workshops and he didn't just help me become a better writer, but a better person as well. He's an amazing screenwriting instructor, but he could very well be a life coach.
The lesson for me was to always listen to your instincs, to not compromise out of the fear rejection, to learn to say NO and to do what makes you happy! thank you Mr. Corey Mandell.
While absolutely a bad movie, I found it no worse than hundreds of others that I've watched, and yes any time I catch it on I watch it through to the end. Because I love Rebellion against evil as a moral to any movie.
typically its not the greatest movie, but I do actually enjoy the dutch angles and usually people have this idea that if a movie flopped at the box office, that it just wasn't good and it will never be good, it would have been nice if they adapted the book into 3 separate movies, make the first movie just entirely awesome and if it still flops, you will have a small community of fans who still mourn for the sequels
That was an amazing amount of self-actualization, realization, and humility. Feels like one of the most heartfelt interview responses I've seen. The funny thing is, I didn't really think the movie was that bad if I compare it to the book.
I don’t know why but Coreys message really resonated with me. Perhaps because I feel like I have spent my whole entire life making fear based decisions. This includes what I studied at University and the career I have subsequently spent my life pursuing. What I got from this interview is that life is too short to spend pleasing others and making safe choices. Somehow watching this interview really brought that home for me. Thanks Corey and thank you to whoever put this video on RU-vid!
This guy is the only person who came out on top on the worst movie ever made. A studio paid him money to write a film and then dropped the movie, that's a win in my book.
@@jesaispasvraimentquoiecrireici Yea... he should write a film about writing the film. Like The Disaster Artist. This whole discussion could easily make a great movie.
Major props to Corey for taking the best perspective on this situation. Owning it, not being afraid of it, but also not letting it keep him down. Great stuff.
Incredibly moving, riveting real-life back story, industry insight, tremendous personal courage, and poignant honesty from Corey Mandell. Thank you so much to Corey, and and thank you so much to Karen for creating the space for this incredible conversation.
I don’t think he needs to worry about “over answering”. This was fascinating and insightful. One thing I have to remind myself of is that when people say “everything happens for a reason“, often what they mean is that every experience has something to teach us. Those are not the same thing.
"we are not gonna follow the book". WHY NOT? Battlefield Earth is a fantastic book!, One of my favorites. Big, beefy, a silly fun ridiculous sci-fi romp. Of course, you are gonna have to cut down such a huge book into a 2 hour movie, but aside from the scientology nonsense, its just a wonderful book.
I like this guy! I bet he is a great teacher. He is so real. And real w himself. He took something that happened to him that wasn’t so great and made his life better. Nice!
many working writers in the industry are not credited on IMDB, they maybe do a rewrite or polish that they're not officially credited for (WGA has specific rules), script doctoring, or as he say in the interview he may have been paid to write a script that never got made.
I just saw this today, and I loved it because I loved Fallout New Vegas, which came out 10 years later. You were ahead of Fallout. The aircraft at the end were the same as the boomers in fallout. John Travolta was a super mutant. The movie was just ahead of its time. I also like comics a ton, I've read over 20,000 of them. If I was rich I would pay you millions to make a Rifts movie. If you guys made Rifts a movie, I would have a sci fi nerd heart attack. The style and colors were so comicbook, it's perfect for Rifts.
All due respect, but nobody “deserved” Battlefield Earth... awesome retelling and i admire the honesty of this guy. An object lesson in fear-based decision-making.
Circumstances surrounding the movie aside, the co-writer of the one of the worst films in history is now professionally acknowledged as one of the greatest teachers in the screenwriting industry! It does go to show what my old man always used to say - "you don't have to be a great player to be a great coach". Touche!
He mentions Breaking Bad and it's ironic that his screenplay foreshadows the Dead Freight episode of that series, the one in which they steal methylamine from a train. Corey's character says something similar to Jesse, to the effect that it's the perfect crime in that they won't even know a theft's occurred.
2 things on this, firstly I respect the F--- out of him for how in depth he went on the issue (lots of people would just skirt the topic briefly) and second no one deserves a BE type situation glad he used it as a positive and not allow it to drag him down :P
I’ve seen folks in the comments for previous videos featuring Corey, complaining that he’s not qualified to give advice, based on this writing credit. No better way to prove them wrong. And not just wrong, but 180 degrees wrong.
To be fair. I still love Battlefield Earth. It is a guilty pleasure. Now, with that said I thought there were some great ideas like the education machine
That was pretty impressive. I was wondering why the writer of a terrible movie was teaching screenwriting. Corey answered that question in more ways than I expected.
You may not personally like them - but Lost, The Leftovers, all the Star Trek reboot films, World War Z and Prometheus were all moderately to massively successful financially and none of them were particularly poorly reviewed. That's pretty much his whole career. Tomorrowland is kinda the only flop he's associated with and even that wasn't a disaster, it's certainly not comparable to Battlefield Earth - a career-ending catastrophe for mostly everyone involved which is considered one of the worst films ever. He has had a pretty consistently critically and commercially successful career. A better example might be Alex Kurtzman, a total hack who is indisputably terrible. His credits are a graveyard of critical and commercial bombs like the franchise killers Amazing Spiderman 2 and the Mummy reboot yet he is still huge in Hollywood. His credits on rotten tomatoes are somehow both extensive and almost exclusively rotten. Even after all of that he was still made showrunner of the new Star Trek shows and his list of big upcoming projects is not slowing down.
The movie about the Annunaki from the Sumerian tablets that wasn't about them, but a story by L. Ron Hubbard, student of the dark occultist Aleister Crowley, that is kind of about them
they should make a bigger intro, just like the book, living in the mountains was a huge part of the story, the traitor characters, the nazi reference, the kid being killed, the teen girl want it to be a doctor, the economical galactic system, all this details was missing in the film,
So you’re saying, it wasn’t *your* fault that you wrote one of the worst movies ever? And you got tricked into it? Who could it have been that tricked you... Could it be... *YOUR FRIENDLY BARTENDER?!?!*
