JUST PAY THE MAN!

Oh come on! Just give the poor man his money! Have all of you heard about this yet!? Apparently since Lionsgate wants to release Catching Fire November 2013 they are already in pre-production and have Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson are already signed on to do the movie, Director Gary Ross isn’t (slashfilm.com). Would you like to know why? Well apparently Ross wants more money. That’s it. And I don’t know about you but that can’t seem like a big deal. According to Geektyrant.com The Hunger Games has already grossed over 363 million dollars…and the movie has only been out for two freaking weeks! That’s a lot, not including all the merchandise they’ve sold like The Hunger Games Tee my sister just wore to school again today. Then the movie is still in theaters, they haven’t even put into the fact that there will be another 363 million coming in because of the fact that the movie will come out to DVD and BlueRay and people will buy it then! Ross, who did direct The Hunger Games if you didn’t catch that, only made a whole 3 million to not only direct, but to WRITE the film as well (Geektyrant.com). I say ‘only,’ but that man just made probably more than I will make in my lifetime…at least until my novels finally get published, but he made a small fortune and he’s asking for a little more money. I think, they haven’t released how much he wants.

Seriously? Minus the three million he made from what the movie made so far and it’s still 360 MILLION dollars and they’re crying because he wants more to direct the next one? Sources haven’t said just how much he wants but come one!? By the time this movie is finally out completely on DVD and BlueRay the amount they will make will most likely be at least in the billions, and a few million more to pay the man that helped make him that much in the first place is a problem!? I don’t get it? The funny thing is they want to do this fast! Jennifer Lawerence was in X-Men: First Class (Mystique) and she is now being talked to about doing the next one. And like Geektyrant said: “If that happens, Catching Fire will most definitely be put on hold, so they need to lock down a director pretty fast.” They want to have this movie out in a little more than a year, and they already have a writer signed on to help write, assuming Collins will have a hand in the script to. Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) is writing the next script. I’ve never seen Slumdog Millionaire, but from what people are telling me it’s a fantastic movie and so obviously a big name writer like that will probably make the next installment fantastic. But to me this all seems ridiculous that they are trying to hassle this out, he may be greedy, but in my opinion he has the right to be because he helped make them that much money and he has a right to a little more. I mean three million is small already for the man who did Pleasantville and Seabiscuit, both great movies I’ve also heard…but I kind of dislike him now that I know he wrote the script to the Tale of Despereaux, and that movie sucked when the story was so beautiful; but still, three million is kind of small, especially now. He’s going down in history and he shouldn’t go down as the director they threw away when he did such a good job. The Hunger Games franchise should not pull a Harry Potter and Twilight Saga move. They had too many directors and some of them didn’t do a better job than the last. So let me tell you this, According to Michael III, JUST PAY THE MAN!

—Michael III

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But I’m excited there is going to be a second X-Men: First Class.

—Michael III