Speaking at the Champs-Elysees Film Festival in Paris, William Friedkin, the Oscar-winning director of The French Connection and The Exorcist said “Today cinema in America is all about Batman, Superman, Iron Man, Avengers, Hunger Games: all kinds of stuff that I have no interest in seeing at all."
Feeling that the studios were more interested in appeasing the broader audience films like his fell out of favor.
He dates the change back to 1977 when he made what he considered his best movie - the largely ignored Sorcerer, starring Roy Scheider, about four men transporting a cargo of nitroglycerin in South America - only to see it eclipsed by Star Wars. "If I am remembered at all for anything, I hope it would be that,"
Friedkin also goes on to say that cable television and streaming networks are the best place for filmmakers to do meaningful work.
What do you think does it sound like sour grapes ? Still bitter that Star Wars buried his film or does he have a point. Read the entire article
here