3 Movies That Got Completely Botched by 2007 WGA Strike
All of them could have been great additions to the already iconic franchises, but well...
The writers strike is the most discussed event in Hollywood right now. Thousands of film and television writers have gone on strike, halting production of many TV shows.
In the near future, movie production also threatens to slow down.
This is the first strike in 15 years: it also happened in 2007 and lasted 100 days, and the economic damage was estimated at $2 billion.
The projects released during the last strike show how a new strike can affect the quality of movies and series.
Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen
The Transformers movies are about robots from another planet fighting in epic slow-motion to no less epic music.
Revenge of the Fallen especially stands out due to its weak plot.
If you think the movie looks chaotic and unfinished, it is because the script for this movie left a lot to be desired due to the writers' strike.
Michael Bay also seemed to share the sentiment, complaining about the strike and saying that he only had fourteen pages of sketches of what would happen in the movie.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is the first spin-off of the mutant series which marks the beginning of a separate trilogy. In it, viewers finally learn how Logan acquired a metal skeleton and amnesia.
But the way the movie revealed the character's past was so horrendous that many viewers still consider the first Wolverine to be the worst of the trilogy.
The movie turned out so bad because of the writers' strike – the script was revised just before filming began, and movie creators simply did not have time to polish it into its final form.
Terminator Salvation
Terminator Salvation was released in 2009 and barely recouped its filming and production costs. Some people loved it, but for the most part, viewers threw rotten tomatoes at the new Terminator instalment.
Many blamed it all on the plot, which was crumpled and full of inconsistencies.
Christian Bale, who played John Connor, once admitted that the original script was one of the reasons he agreed to star in Terminator Salvation.
However, due to the 2007 writers strike, the script went through several rewrites, resulting in Terminator Salvation being one of the worst installments of the franchise.