Dean Devlin is the credited director of the much-loved Geostorm, but says it’s not his film – yet he’d do his own cut, and possibly Geostorm 2.
I think I’ve managed to hide it well over the years, but I bloody love 2017’s Geostorm, the kind of goofy, muddled, deliciously enjoyable mad space film that we don’t seem to get anymore. In part because Geostorm cost an enormous amount of money, and didn’t make it back. See also: Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall, an intended franchise-starter, that also doubled up as a franchise-stopped.
The credited director of Geostorm, starring Gerard Butler, is Dean Devlin, but he’s not the person who finished the movie. Instead, the film was overhauled in post-production, and Danny Cannon came in to do extensive and really quite easy to spot reshoots.
Dean Devlin is now doing promotional work for his latest project, the TV series The Ark. He was chatting to Inverse about the show, and the outlet did exactly the right think and asked him the killer question: Dean! What about Geostorm 2?
It turns out Dean does not hold a lot of interest in it. At least in its current form.
“We barely survived Geostorm 1”, he said. “The truth of the matter is I was replaced on Geostorm. Someone else rewrote and redirected 60% of the movie. So it’s not my film.”
This is pretty well known. I had a conversation with Dean Devlin once where I told him I was, er, ‘rather fond’ of Geostorm, and while Devlin was polite, I quickly got the sense that my enthusiasm for it was significantly greater than his.
But what’s this? An olive branch!
“If they ever want to go back and restore my version of the film, I’d be happy to do that and I’d be happy to go do a sequel to that”.
Warner Bros! If Dean Devlin was called ‘Zack Snyder’, you’d have written that cheque already. Stop pissing around! It should only cost around $100m, far less than you pay David Zaslav, and you’d make one person in the West Midlands here in the UK very happy. Can’t say fairer than that.
More on Geostorm: The Devlin Cut and Geostorm 2 just as soon as the good news comes in.
