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[shadowkat]

Apparently Joss Whedon has parted ways with The Nevers, which is coming to HBO in the Summer

Question posed on FB - "When did Joss Whedon become Brian Fuller?"

LOL!

Good question.

Followed by..."what was the last show that Brian Fuller actually stuck with?"

ME: Possibly Pushing Daisies, which admittedly didn't last long.

I was thinking about that when I was trying to watch the first episode of S1 Discovery "On Demand", and realized Fuller was the original show-runner, who parted ways after the first season.

Whedon appears to be doing the same thing.

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[shadowkat]

Possibly, hard to know. Justice League was an impossible shoot. I read about it long before the movie arrived, and I've seen the film. Chris Snyder was the original director who has a completely different style than Whedon. Snyder is more of a visual stylist, and not into dialogue. He also goes dark and not into humor or snark. And had been critiqued on his darker take. He took off during post-production, with just a few more scenes that needed to be done because of a tragic death in his family. Warner for some reason or other, panicked and decided to bring in Marvel's Joss Whedon for a different take. Keep in mind - Whedon had been the very successful showrunner over at Marvel until he screwed up with Age of Ultron.

Also Whedon's style is the polar opposite of Snyder's. And everyone was used to Snyder.
Whedon's a perfectionist and into dialogue and getting the words exactly right - he also had a lot riding on it - since if it was successful - he got a shot at taking over that franchise.

But he came in at the fourth quarter mark - at post-production, with just a few scenes left over to be shot. So he chose to redo most of it. Diminish roles that Snyder had emphasized, and increase roles that Snyder had diminished. The finished project was jarring in places - I can only imagine what it was like on set.

I don't envy the people investigating the allegations. Also it's hard to know if Fisher had a case or was overly sensitive. I honestly don't know. But I do know that was an impossible situation, and it's why it didn't do as expected in the box office.

I'm ambivalent about The Nevers - I don't like Victorian Steam-Punk. But Whedon fascinates me as a writer/director. And say what you will about the writer - he's good at dialogue.