It very telling...the fact he thought Jem movie was going to take care of itself. that means he considered it to be some any other project and didn't give it much effort. He truly doesn't understand that audience is not stupid even if it was made for preteens. You just can't ignore old fans, they are very invested in the cartoon and merchandise Jem is a product that has been a part of their lives.
Perhaps if he and the script writers had been true to the freaking SOURCE MATERIAL, instead of making a tween movie that no tweens gave a crap about. My sister and her friends grew up on Jem and loved it, and I guarantee that if they had written an actual JEM movie, instead of a movie that used the names of some of the characters and bore no resemblance to the cartoon, that generation of girls (now women) would have flocked to it and dragged their kids to it. This is what happens when you let hacks, 'hack' at good material. We guys watched Hollywood crap all over GI Joe and now the Jem fans have joined us.
I like Jason, I do. But the guy was majorly connected before he decided to slip away and start blumhouse so it's not that amazing that he is successful and done the things he has compared to if he was a nobody and started from nothing. Just saying.
these guys figured out how to make people work for free, and then give them more money as time goes on like breadcrumbs and meanwhile, you did all the work?
