The news comes our way via Deadline Hollywood, who apparently spoke to some insiders and found out that the $100 million (!) Uni had allocated for the redux just wasn’t enough to work with. Whoa. “He’s a purist, an artiste, an exquisite craftsman,” the insider reported, ”but he just had a budget schedule he couldn’t accommodate,”
So now the mad rush is on to get a new ass to fill the director’s chair, and boy do we have a list I’m sure the studio wouldn’t even look twice at. I really want to know what’s planned with this film that Romanek couldn’t stretch that paltry $100 million to make it work. Kinda makes you ill, no?