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I think I might find out the reason. Paramount has been deeply involved in a movie star feud for the past 14 years and the fight has became increasingly dirty and violent, and that includes Paramount itself. One of the stars put Ray Donovan (Liev Schreiber) in the studio as his people and I think the studio found out.
Isn't it strange that Lynn chose to direct it if he knew the script was bad? What was he doing then? And he couldn't get the writer to rewrite scenes?
Possibly security reason. The Chinese are very good at copycat and reverse engineering. It's not like the time was 40 or even 30 years ago. The Chinese right now can probably look at the interior of the aircraft and see which is which and which is doing what job.
Affleck only did 2 Bay movies: this one and that Pearl Habor movie. His first career trouble began because of Daredevil and Gigli and Bennifer overexposure, not the Bay movies.
Did you actually listen to that Entertainment Weekly interview? He was very lightheartedly teasing. And then all of sudden the narrative changed when it got posted to some gossip forums with the poster's own editorial bias, it seems.
And I am sure both the producer and the director have been OK with Ben's teasing, seeing he already had teased them some 20 years earlier in that Criterion Collection commentary. Besides, the producer admitted himself in a GQ profile in 2011 when he talked about it with the director when they were promoting Transformers' franchise.
I think it had something to do with studio's budgetary excessiveness. Some 40 years later, Ben Affleck talked about the appearance of a helicopter in the disaster movie Armageddon in the Criterion commentary:
"This is where you just have a random helicopter in the background for no real reason, just because you’re a big movie and you’re expensive and you can,” he says. “You have no idea how much of a headache having a helicopter in the background causes us—safety this and money that, only so many hours they can fly, they’re on walkies, winds blasting everywhere. If I hadn’t brought it up you probably would’ve forgotten about that yellow helicopter in the background by now.”
Here is the link: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/7/2/17524984/armageddon-dvd-commentary-20th-anniversary
Probably the same situation in this movie too, since Paramount apparently replicated a whole Manhattan apartment block in the studio's LA plot. Must have been expensive.
It's an Arte-Deco style which this show prominently featured.
Thank you. I now understand.
Yeah, fag has been known as cigarrette in UK. Only recently the American meaning began to creeps into local colloquil.
For me that would be Lord Edgewell Dies. That woman really spooked me. Top acting though.
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