DAVID FINCHER: I don't know if you guys have seen the box office, but you may want to hold on to that money if you're planning on getting me to direct the other two books.
Part of what makes fantasy and sci-fi appealing is that it's not just a bunch of characters -- it's a whole world. One you want to live in. And while that's not possible, you can come pretty close, because it turns out a lot of these fantasy settings were based on real places.
Even a hero who is specifically described as 'down on his luck' will routinely defeat the overwhelming odds thanks to a long list of coincidences falling his way.
All of this stuff has to be created from scratch, usually by just one or two people. And usually, the high-tech sounds are created by whatever random crap they have nearby.
We all know that sooner or later, the Batman movies are going to run out of interesting villains to feature and will be forced to start scraping closer to the bottom of the barrel. Whoever they end up choosing, we hope it's not any of these guys.
More than just occasionally, people in the bible are killed in ways so innovative and gruesome that they could've been filmed as a scene in a slasher movie. And, as we'll show you, some have done exactly that.
It's so weird when, on occasion, the good guys of the film seem to let the obvious moral that they themselves helped establish whiff by them as they do EXACTLY what they just taught us to never do.
