Ok,
for those of you who might not know, who the hell was Alan
Smithee ?
Well
Alan Smithee was the title that the Directors Guild Of America
advised that a Director had to use if they did not wish their
name to be on a Movie.
The
first time it was used on a Movie was back in 1967 on Death
Of A Gunfighter, no I had never heard of that Movie either.
On the other hand you will have heard of Dennis Hopper who
used the title for the flop Catchfire that he directed in
1989 that starred Jodie Foster.
The
Directors Guild have now decided that Directors should stop
using the Alan Smithee pseudonym after it was used in the
title of the 1997 flop An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood
Burn(if you have seen that we would love to see a review of
it).
From
now on Directors should use Thomas Lee. Which might be a bit
of a pain if you are a Director and your name really is Thomas
Lee.
Expect
the first Movie to carry this name to be the Walter Hill directed
Supernova which should be winging its way to us soon.
So
hopefully now armed with this info you will know that if a
film has either Alan Smithee or Thomas Lee as Director to
avoid it.
I mean if the Movies own Director doesn't want anything to
do with it then it must be pretty bad.
Tall
Guy
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