Genesis: Development Hell (2004)
*** (out of 4)
Sean Cunningham, Robert Englund, Robert Shaye and Ronny Yu are among the people discussing the hell everyone had to go through to try and get FREDDY VS JASON into theaters. We start off talking about the idea of bringing them together back when different studios owned the characters. We then jump to when New Line owned both of them and they had to wait until they were happy with a good screenplay. Those interviewed tell some great stories of the various issues that happened as they tried to bring these two monsters to the big screen. There's some great talk about screenplays and directors that didn't work out and then we hear from Shaye on why he was happy with Yu. At just ten minutes there's certainly nothing ground-breaking here but this is a fun featurette that fans will enjoy.
*** (out of 4)
Sean Cunningham, Robert Englund, Robert Shaye and Ronny Yu are among the people discussing the hell everyone had to go through to try and get FREDDY VS JASON into theaters. We start off talking about the idea of bringing them together back when different studios owned the characters. We then jump to when New Line owned both of them and they had to wait until they were happy with a good screenplay. Those interviewed tell some great stories of the various issues that happened as they tried to bring these two monsters to the big screen. There's some great talk about screenplays and directors that didn't work out and then we hear from Shaye on why he was happy with Yu. At just ten minutes there's certainly nothing ground-breaking here but this is a fun featurette that fans will enjoy.
