Oh MGM, you and your financial woes are really throwing the wrench of everyone’s lives including fanboys across the globe. First your instability indefinitely delays Bond 23 , then you make life so difficult for Guillermo del Toro that he leaves the director’s chair on “The Hobbit”, then you scuttle “Red Dawn” and now one more anticipated fanboy project looks like it’s getting ankled.
According to a new THR article about MGM’s fruitless search for a new CEO and the fact that top names so far are uninterested (and lenders are unenthused about these choices), Joss Whedon’s “The Cabin In The Woods,” may not make its January 14, 2011 release. No trailers have been cut and the trade says it’s “assumed [it] will be pushed to later release dates” and the same applies to “Red Dawn.”
That’s little info to go on, but it seems to match considering everything that’s happened with MGM’s financial woes and there aforementioned slate. Essentially, the more the company’s future is up in the air, it appears all their releases will live in limbo until things get sorted out. That will likely apply to whatever other films they have on the docket.
A studio insider told THR about the disconnect thinking at the company. “We’d be sitting in a meeting with all these problems and $4 billion of debt, and we’d be talking about that night’s Lakers tickets. There was always two MGMs — the old MGM and the Mary Parent MGM. If Mary Parent had her way, the Bond film would come out in November.”
“The Cabin In The Woods” might boast Whedon’s name, but he’s actually just the writer/producer and the film is actually the feature-length directorial debut of Drew Goddard, a writer with lots of nerd cred having penned episodes of “Lost,” “Alias,” “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” and “Cloverfield.”
Whenever it hits theaters, ‘Woods’ was revealed as a monster movie of sorts and stars Richard Jenkins, Chris Hemsworth (who also stars in the delayed “Red Dawn”), Bradley Whitford, Jesse Williams and Kristen Connolly. It was originally supposed to hit in 2010, but then was bumped to it could be 3D converted (naturally).
