Doctor Strange director refuses to return for reshoots on Snowpiercer TV show: 'It may have been my best work'
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Your support makes all the difference.Scott Derrickson has declined to carry out "extreme reshoots" on TNT's upcoming Snowpiercer series due to the new shortener's "radically different vision for the show".
Reshoots are fairly common in TV and film, though they are often suggested by studios and come to the chagrin of the director.
“The 72-page Snowpiercer TV pilot script by @Josh_Friedman is the best I’ve ever read," Doctor Strange director Derrickson tweeted on Friday.
"The feature-length pilot I made from that script may be my best work.
"The new showrunner has a radically different vision for the show. I am forgoing my option to direct the extreme reshoots.”
In tweets that were possibly related, he later wrote: "Even Michaelangelo had studio problems - he worked for a demanding warrior pope" and "Resist other people’s ideas of success."
The TV adaptation of sci-fi film Snowpiercer was originally in the hands of Friedman, but he exited the project in January over reported creative differences, with Orphan Black co-creator Graeme Mason taking over as showrunner.
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