Howard Adopts 'The Emperor's Children'
Who you wanna live with? Famous director or an emperor?
Ron Howard has found his third to next film in the form of The Emperor's Children for Universal Pictures.
The pic is an adapatation of Claire Messud's 2006 novel about New York City's upper class, based on a script by Noah Baumbach. The story follows Ivy League grads approaching their 30s with trepidation.
Emperor's Children will be Howard's third film in the coming years as he begins production on Frost/Nixon on August 24, followed by Angels and Demons, the prequel to The Da Vinci Code, which is currentyl slated to hit theaters on December 19 with Tom Hanks reprising his role as Robert Langdon.
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I could use this space to whine about how much Ron Howard sucks and how he's going to run a smart script by Noah Baumbach, but I won't. See how much my self-control has improved?
Really? I actually like Ron Howard. Of course there are some movies of his that I don't like such as Backdraft and Da Vinci Code wasn't all that good. However, I loved Cinderella Man and A Beautiful Mind. I would certainly say his movies are at least watchable on every occasion even if I don't choose to watch them again.
I know that I may come off sounding like a snob (which I guess I kind of am), but I have never gotten any enjoyment out of a Ron Howard. I really hate A Beautiful Mind for numerous reasons, but I'll boil down my rant to a few major problems that pretty much sum up what I perceive to be the suckiness of A Beautiful Mind, and Ron Howard in general:
- Ron Howard changed the facts to make the movie more palatable to mainstream audiences (for example, the real Nash is bi-sexual, and had numerous affairs, one resulting in another child)
- In regards to the handling of Nash's illness, Ronnie stole several techniques that David Fincher used in Fight Club (I won't elaborate unless you want me to, so that I can avoid spoiling Fight Club for anyone).
- The score is extremely annoying, and doesn't give the viewer a chance to think of things for him/herself. Granted, Ronnie didn't compose the music, but he did decide to use it.
I just think that Ron Howard is a completely unoriginal director, and is really only a poor-man's Spielberg. I find it insulting that A Beautiful Mind won the Best Picture Oscar the year that much better movies came out, especially The Royal Tenenbaums (one of my all-time favorites).
But this is just my opinion, and I do acknowledge that I might sound like a snob. I just can't take his movies (especially The Da Vinci Code, which is really just a bad combination of Robert Ludlum and Indiana Jones).