BARAGONBREH wrote:scottzilla wrote:It seems to be pretty common nowadays to post the trailer online right after they show it at Comic Con, and being less than a year away from the release, they would be downright idiotic not to show SOMETHING. The only people who know this movie is still a thing are hardcore Godzilla fans.
Oh, I totally agree it would be idiotic.
Why would you preclude the possibility that the people in charge of this movie will do something idiotic, given the number of idiotic steps they've already made?
I agree there has been some idiocy in the development in this movie, but none of it is on the part of Dougherty as far as can tell. He seems like a genuine fan who is doing his best to make a good movie under questionable management. Let's look at the idiotic steps in development you've mentioned.
1. First mistake, Legendary choosing to wait for Gareth Edwards to finish directing Star Wars. Even if Edwards hadn't left, this still created a longer wait between movies than most franchises have these days, and as we know, he chose to leave after finishing SW, making a year of pointless waiting, and setting the movie back further in a search for a new director. They should have gone to Dougherty as soon as Edwards agreed to do SW.
2. Complete lack of marketing so far.
3. Delaying an already delayed movie with a long wait time AGAIN, for no other reason than to fill an arbitrary release date for another unrelated delayed movie. If they had to do that, they should have delayed Shazam since it's much less far along than Godzilla. but no. got to move forward with their precious DCEU that everyone loves so much.
All of these are on Legendary execs, not on Dougherty, so I'm not sure why you blame him in so man y of your posts.
