Ryan Berns
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David Wong:
Hi David/Jason, I'm tuning in to your series on Story Mode about why Modern Blockbusters bore and I'm loving it. I've also just recently watched suicide squad and loved it, and saw you tweeted that you loved it too. I'm wondering: What makes SOME modern blockbusters succeed, in you opinion?
David Wong
With The Suicide Squad (the second one!), which I loved, I think that was a unique situation where they totally left James Gunn alone because 1) he'd just been fired off of the MCU (he'd temporarily been canceled over some old tweets) and they were desperate to have him on board and 2) the rocky success of the DCU meant they were more willing to just let him do his thing. Marvel has this assembly line approach because it has made them an ocean of money, DC/Warner was ironically more in a position to take risks because they've never settled into that rhythm.
That said, it does appear that The Suicide Squad is a box office disaster so what do I know? Here's the first ep of the podcast we're referencing BTW:
https://soundcloud.com/david-bell-381...
That said, it does appear that The Suicide Squad is a box office disaster so what do I know? Here's the first ep of the podcast we're referencing BTW:
https://soundcloud.com/david-bell-381...
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risx
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David Wong:
Sorry if this has been asked before but, how did you craft your writing style? Does it just come naturally or does it take a lot of revision, was there anything that inspired it? I remember stumbling on a cracked article you wrote and falling in love with how you write, which obviously lead me to your books.
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