Han Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)
In the corporate world that's definitely the case. In the arts however, the rules are different. As a filmmaker you don't make movies to appease suits. This is a clear cut scenario of suits running over the artistic vision of some union Directors. Because today's America has become brainwashed with fake news and sterilized information, the notion of Lord and Miller publicly bashing Disney seems insane. It really isn't, everyone's just forgotten what it's like to get real honesty from public figures these days. Honesty in the arts is power. Orson Welles is a legend today because of that.
We're basically living in the movie The Running Man and Disney is ICS.
Are you a filmmaker? Do you work in the industry? Are you a behind the camera crew?
Cause you sure don't know anything about how the industry works and is instead hawking your version of how it should work non stop.
You said your friend got to watch an early cut of RO yet you refused to say who he is or what capacity is he involved in with RO.
Unless your friend is high up the food chain, he won't get to watch the first cut.
I am a cinematographer that has shot award winning productions over here and I never get to watch the first cut of anything I have ever shot. Despite shooting it, once I am done with principal photography my involvement is mostly done except I might be called in for some colour grading consultation by the editor and even then that is rare.
Rarely do any crew stays around after production. Everyone would have moved on to different jobs.
So unless your friend is actually the editor, producer, or Gareth Edwards himself, I would take his word on actually watching an early cut of RO with a grain of salt.
Also, the auteur theory is a myth when it comes to tentpole movies. You want creative independence go make your own indie movie.
But when you are in a big budget production you are hired to make the movie the producer wants you to make. This has always been the case.
The director is at the end of the day a hired gun of the producer and the studio. Hired to realized their vision not yours.
Is the same when the director hire me to shoot their stuff. I don't force my style on them. Instead I will try my best to give them what they want. You will be out of a job really quick if you constantly try to go against the vision of the director and the director against the vision of the producer.
While filmmaking is a collaborative process there is a clear hierarchy when it comes to decision making. One thing I always say to young people just joining the industry is that don't make the mistake of thinking that you can have creative input in everything. Filmmaking is not a democracy.
Your whistle blowing fantasy will just stay a fantasy. You make it sound like this is some smoking gun or something.
Everyone knows this is how it works. It is nothing new. You want to stay in the game you got to play the game and all the best directors have played it.
And really, you think Whedon actually directed the action scenes in the Avengers movies? That is the job of the action director.
It is extremely rare for the director to actually direct the action scene in any movies except maybe for Michael Bay (and that is why his action sucks) or the filmmakers who did John Wick movies and even then they actually started out as action directors and made the transition to directing.
I have worked with Hong Kong choreographers for a few TV series and each time it comes to any scenes involving action or stunts, the reign is handed over to the choreographer.
There is no ego or any hurt feelings. It is one professional handling the reigns to another professional that can do a better job in that department.
And really, you think directors always get the final cut? That era is long gone.
that's it exactly. Although no one outside the golden circle knows definitively what went down, and probably never will. This was not a 'normal' precedented situation in Hollywood, nor is this new one with the Solo movie. Many have reported that Edwards was not even present in the offline at the end while Gilroy was editing the movie. 
