A website said having Patty Jenkins direct Wonder Woman was a risk. Twitter fired back.
'Remember when Sony gambled $230 million on a Spider-Man reboot on an indie director whose previous film cost $7.5 million?'
06.02.17
At first glance, this tweet from The Hollywood Reporter to an article about "Wonder Woman" director Patty Jenkins seems innocent enough.
"Warner Bros. is gambling $150M with a filmmaker whose only prior big-screen credit was an $8M indie," the tweet reads. Taken at face value, sure, that seems to make sense. Putting someone at the helm of a $150-million project is naturally a risk-filled endeavor, no matter who you're talking about. And, yeah, when that's nearly 20 times as much money as that person's ever had to work with, it's a fair question to ask.
But if you look a little closer, you'll see there are three big mistakes in that sort of framing.
And of course it's worth reading the full article before you make a decision, but there's still something about the way the headline and tweet are set up that seems ... off.
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