Occupation: Businessman Birth: 1970
We got on a moving train there. That's more of a financing arrangement on that [Dracula] film. It would be disingenuous to say we're producing it. So….
Each one [movie] is very important to us and from a fiscal responsibility, filmmakers understand that it's highly personal for us and they've been gr….
With Godzilla, I've been a huge fan my whole life..
I've got to say that when you're able to work with people like this, whether it's Gareth or Guillermo or Zack Snyder or Chris Nolan, it's a privilege….
The truth is at Legendary we really make movies that we want to see, and someday I'm sure that won't work but - I remember, it's obviously a complete….
We love being in business with Guillermo [Del Toro]and frankly that movie, if you look it up, did I think more business than the first X-Men, did mor….
The only guiding principle you can use is to make something that you want to see..
When you watch Monsters you understand that the effects he did on his laptop were in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, I was astounded.More than ….
We just believe in what we make and we're in a very fortunate position to be able to make stuff regardless of what model that follows..
I'm not the worlds biggest remake guy, meaning finding titles and saying, "Hey it's got some brand awareness, let's just make a movie.".
Godzilla it's not a remake, it's our chapter. I think what I'm most excited about is all the principles that we laid out in the beginning, I feel lik….
I don't want to talk about anybody else's movie, but I understand fan skepticism when you're like, "Oh yeah, a Godzilla movie." Which, by the way, ou….
Whether a studio partner is 50/50 with us, or we do 100%, or we do 75% or 90% and for the most part they just distribute, whether that's Warner Broth….
[In remake] you've got to have something new to say, or technology that wasn't available, or a new chapter that kind of speaks to this generation of ….
I'll tell the only thing I know in this business, I have had the absolute privilege of making movies that I loved when I was a kid and loved my whole….
Whether it's Batman, Superman, Watchmen, the 300 story, we just make stuff that I want to see..
When it was time to talk about Warcraft we took our time, we knew what the story was going to be, we had a field general in Duncan Jones. Same thing ….
I've been a film geek since I was a little kid and to start with an idea and then get a stack of papers with words on it called a script, then storyb….
Comic-Con is always something that we- we love Comic-Con and we generally have a big presence there. So we usually have something to say there, and j….
For us it's always about making sure that there's substance, that things are well thought out, they're real, they're going to happen versus just haph….
When I watch the movie, which is I don't know how many times I've done now with editing and everything, I walk out giddy just because I feel like tha….