Despite Booksmart’s success with adults who wish they could go to high school and really figure it out the second time around, the script, which was stuck in purgatory for a decade before it got a refresh, suffered from unfunny referential humor and phony appeals to pathos. Part of a director’s job is choosing a script that will highlight their own strengths and challenge the standard they’ve set for themselves. It looks good it feels, as Harry Styles once said, “like a movie.” And indeed, reviews near and far have praised Pugh’s star turn in it.īut like Booksmart before it, Wilde’s directorial style is hampered by a screenplay that just doesn’t work. Though questions of “director jail” often focus on how much money a movie brings in, perhaps they should (more charitably) be narrowed to a particular question: Is a director actually good at directing movies, from the time of artistic conception to premiere? By all accounts, Don’t Worry Darling is stylish and competently made. No doubt she is the victim of tedious and hateful campaigns from the most fervent members of the Styles standom, but her own harping on the film’s feminist values (of which there appear to be very few) has done little to help her case. All three of my sources hinted at worse happenings still, but were unwilling to go on the record, even as unnamed sources, about what went on, because no one actually wants to torpedo Wilde’s career,” Lainey explained.Īmid speculation into whether the disastrous press tour will negatively affect Wilde’s ability to make movies, misogyny has been both a weapon and a shield for her. “But as annoyed as people got with Wilde - and they got VERY annoyed - there is still a circle of protection in effect. Yesterday, however, Lainey Gossip confirmed that the argument did happen, and perhaps there is more yet to be uncovered. Then, 40 of the film’s crew members signed a letter saying no such incident happened, and that Wilde created a “collaborative and safe space” on set. The first of which was a story at Vulture detailing a supposed screaming argument between Wilde and the film’s lead, Florence Pugh, and the latter’s subsequent decision to “take things all the way to the top” in order to be released from her promotional obligations to the film. The relative success of the film’s box office came after a few 11th hour - or 13th, if we’re being honest - twists and turns. It’s on track to more or less break even, so everyone at Warner Bros can finally sleep at night, knowing their future is safe with Black Adam. Olivia Wilde’s critically maligned, drama-laden sophomore feature made $19.2 million at the box office this past weekend, recouping about two-thirds of its budget. First, the good news: Don’t Worry Darling did not flop.
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