James Gunn says 'Movie Industry Is Dying': here’s why

The filmmaker and co-head of DC Studios, James Gunn, shared his views on his belief that the “movie industry is dying,” and he thinks it's because of unfinished scripts.

Recently, while talking with Rolling Stone, Gunn said that the majority of bad movies being released are due to production dates being finalised before the scripts are completely finished.

“I do believe that the reason why the movie industry is dying is not because of people not wanting to see movies. It’s not because of home screens getting so good,” Gunn said. “The number-one reason is because people are making movies without a finished screenplay.”

Gunn shared that when he entered DC Studios with Peter Safran, he never started production on any superhero film until the scripts were finalised.

He added that they “just killed a project” for a similar reason.

“Everybody wanted to make the movie. It was greenlit, ready to go,” the Superman director said. “The screenplay wasn’t ready. And I couldn’t do a movie where the screenplay’s not good.”

The director said that they had been lucky so far because the Supergirl script was exceptionally good from the start. Moreover, the same was true for Lanterns and Clayface, which also had impressive scripts.

“So we have these scripts that we’ve been really lucky with, or wise in our choices — or whatever the combination is,” the filmmaker said.

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